[info]vampiress_diva in [info]07refugees

Update on GJ: Good News and Bad News

Well appearently greatestjournal is back up and running.

So the good news if anyone wants old entires or icons you can get them.

Bad News is that you only have two weeks.

When I tried to test comment, of course I couldn't do it BUT I was redirected to a page and got the following message:


Server no longer maintained and will be closed Jan 30 2009 - Please use LiveJournal or ljarchive


So if you want icons from communities such as rpg_icons, if you have old rp sls you wanna save, or anything else you wanna save from that site YOU HAVE TWO WEEKS SO DO IT NOW.
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Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 at 08:14 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]dee_groovy

Shame it's being shut down, but at least they're giving people a chance to forward their entries elsewhere...

I wonder why they recommend LJ? They used to direct people to IJ before....
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 10:25 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

Your guess is as good as mine. You know how inefficient system is so no one should be shocked.
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 10:26 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]aristoboule

This is pretty wacky: http://www.greatestjournal.com/create.bml

The create journal page still says this: GJ's servers are currently overloaded - we recommend joining InsaneJournal instead.
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 06:24 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]greenwitch

I'm glad to see this -- that there's now a date, a chance for people to grab their stuff, and that it's going to be shut down completely, not left in a state of limbo for months or years with no option for people to delete their own content.
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 10:51 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

So am I. It's the first thing system's done right in a loooooooooong time.

BTW the irony of that icon you're using!! LOL
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 10:53 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]cling_to_love

I'm trying to archive stuff with ljarchive and I'm getting that annoying error message again, as well as the archive telling me 'the server is unable to export comments.' At this point I'll take whatever I can get, so the comments will have to stay behind (or be copied/pasted manually), but is there away to get around the other error message, or do I just have to wait and see if it's just doing it right now?
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 11:20 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

I have NO idea about such things as the ljarchiver. I wish I could help you. For now, copy and paste is the best answer I can give you. Hopefully someone else will comment with a better alternative that will not be so tedious and long.
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 11:25 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]yonmei

Oh the relief. Thanks for the heads-up: I'd about given up checking.
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 11:30 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

No problem. I considered this a public service. :-D
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 11:31 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]wolfsilveroak

I just went ahead and deleted mine. Everything I had there, I have here, so.
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 03:14 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

Ah ok.
Posted on Jan. 15th, 2009 05:19 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]azurehart

Thanks for the info. I just went ahead and deleted my GJ since I'd already moved everything to my IJ.
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 04:14 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

No prob. :-) Glad to hear you completed your transition.
Posted on Jan. 15th, 2009 05:20 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]tavalya_ra

I hope that if IJ ever gets anywhere close to this happening, we get plenty of warning... not to just to backup, but to see if we can coordinate a mass-effort to bale the site out. I <3 IJ.
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 04:20 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

I doubt that given [info]squeaky's track record that ij's closing is not in the near future. But if for some reason that time should come(again I doubt it), I think he would give us a notification which will be well in advanced.
Posted on Jan. 15th, 2009 05:23 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]tavalya_ra

Yeah, I do, too. Just voicing the vague fear this brought up.
Posted on Jan. 15th, 2009 11:19 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]thingone

It's also incredibly, incredibly slow. I couldn't even sign in. Not surprising, I suppose.
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 07:00 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

It's not slow for me. i dunno.
Posted on Jan. 15th, 2009 05:24 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]thingone

I tried again later and it was fine, so chances are it was a server overload or something. ;-)
Posted on Jan. 15th, 2009 06:03 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

Yeah. :-) An influx of the site's former users going to that site and snagging all they can I guess.
Posted on Jan. 15th, 2009 06:06 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]slashpine

Thanks for the heads-up! (Hmm... heads-blows-up?)

I'll share the news.
Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 09:06 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

No prob. As I said before, I consider this a public service. (LOL)

Posted on Jan. 15th, 2009 05:25 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply