I have put together a Selenium IDE script to overwrite previous entries, then delete them, individually. It takes a long while, but if you're looking with interest at this script, you probably already knew it wasn't gonna be swift.

You will need to agree to the TOS for this to work. There is no getting around that that I'm aware of. Sorry about that.

Details below the cut.

( Technical, take two. )

I also have a total hax for the Python package "lj"... I'll put that up later.

Sharing is fine.

There's a new user agreement in place on LJ. You can read the original binding agreement here, or the English translation here. Time to skip town, those of you who haven't already!

Unfortunately, the LJ API now requires that you agree to their TOS before you can continue, making most LJ-export scripts unworkable. You could modify the scripts to accept the new API restriction... but odds are, if you are leaving because the new TOS sucks, you're not gonna want to accept it via scripting.

rosefox has a guide here for ad-blocking the TOS overlay. The instructions are almost certainly the same for Adblock/Plus. The two items to block:

##.b-fader
##.rutos.flatblue

Next stop, you can export your entries here. (HTTPS? What's that?) Downsides:

* You can only do journal entries, then comments.
* You can only do a month at a time.

I'm writing myself a quick-and-dirty Selenium script so that I do not have to do only one item at a time. I'll post it once I'm done, in case other people are similarly inclined.

I miss the stars in LJ notes.  I don't have or want a paid account in LJ.  I installed Livejournal Addons, and disabled nearly everything but the notes part.  But, it only adds the title attribute for users with notes, it doesn't add a star.

So, I added one.

( Steps to do this. )

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.  Number of comments so far:

On the one hand, I don't want to rub it in, or anything.

On the other hand, I do have 5 Dreamwidth invite codes.

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[eta] Rub it in re the whole LJ DDoS nonsense, I mean.  I wasn't gloating about invite codes, or anything.

And I in fact have 16 total.  I just received one from DW, so I looked, and thought I had 5, because I can't read.

As a note, once Dreamwidth support folk get my issue resolved, I'm going to be importing all content over from ladytabitha and the_xtina to here, deleting my ladytabitha account, and probably moving primarily over to Dreamwidth.

I'll still cross-post to Livejournal, but to be honest, (a) I like DW and what it stands for, and (b) I'm really tired of waiting to find out how LJ's gonna fuck shit up today, approximately in that order, so whatevs whatevs.

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In the recent LJ news post, a couple of folk asked how crossposting to FB would deal with images.  Specifically, you can set a thumbnail for your post, but is it hotlinked?  Can you use the poster's pics for the thumbnail?  Beuller?

http://news.livejournal.com/129945.html?thread=90206105&format=light#t90206105

So, I tested.  Largely because I could.

NOTE: This post will be updated as I figure out or am told new things.

* If you are making a public[1] post, you can crosspost to FB and choose no image, the userpic you're using, or any image you've put in the post.

* If you're commenting on a public[1] post with an image in it, you can crosspost to FB and choose no image, the userpic you're using, or any image you've put in your comment.  You cannot use any image related to the poster as a thumbnail.

* Any pic that is either used as a thumbnail or just put in the body of the comment or post is linked[1] thumbnailed in FB as:

http://platform.ak.fbcdn.net/www/app_full_proxy.php?app=189818072392&v=1&size=z&cksum=6a2e3b2284f1bbeb4cfdcb346db48fbe&src=[original_img_url]

If someone happens to know whether that means FB has saved the image locally or what, that'd be fantacular.

*[1] If you are commenting on a flocked post (general or custom), the Repost To section is still there, but the options are disabled.  It is, however, trivial to use a GM script to un-disable the checkbox.  With that undisabled, commenting on the post acts the same as on a public post.

*[1] A commenter can never select, from the "Choose a pic" link, a picture from the post/poster to use as a thumbnail.  However, as noted, they can use any picture in their comment.  This means I can use a GM script to undisable the checkbox, copy the URL of the image you posted into my comment, then use it as a thumbnail.

*[2] If I enable Cyrillic with the FB-enabled account, all public and flocked posts act like public posts -- it functions the same as though I'd written the GM script, I can repost images as noted above.

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[1] [eta 13:58] Added the public v. flocked distinctions, and some notes on how GM can be used maliciously.

[2] [eta 14:04] Added a note on Cyrillic services, per moem.

Have I asked this before?

Where the eff are all the Dreamwidth proselytisers?  I see enthusiastic-for-DW folk, and folk on DW, and that's about it.  I read more complaints about proselytisers (and statements of "so therefore I'm not moving to DW!", thus further proving my "we are all 12" theory) than I have statements of how LJ sucks and everyone should move to DW *flounce*.

Mneh.

LJ-specific o'clock:

Please don't crosspost comments on posts of mine to your Intertwitterfaceblags, pls.

You might see me have a FB thingamadoodle on my profile for a bit, but that's temporary whilst I tweak my Profile Reset GM script.  (I hadn't taken all external-services options into account, apparently.)  I not only have no intention of crossposting a damn thing, I wrote a script to remove even accidental clickage.  So no worries.

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Here's what you can do to hide the options for yourself:

* Go here.  (Journal > Journal Style > Customize > CSS.)

* Add this line: .b-repost-item { display: none; }

* Click Save Changes.

That, at least, will prevent you from accidentally selecting one of the options when you make a comment.  Also, it sets commenting back to "[type] [tab] [enter]" to post the comment, which is pleasant.

Alas, this only works for certain journal styles, and not for format=light so much.  To get it for all styles, including format=light, you'd probably want to put this into Stylish, instead.  Naturally, I'll be doing this in GM, because I also want to remove that whole row, because I don't care about the settings and I like cleanliness in my comment forms.

Of course, I have approx. a million gazillion GM scripts, so this is hardly shocking.

( Stylish code. )

( GM code. )

Dear LJ-users:

http://www.livejournal.com/portal/

Use that instead of the front page, which has, remarkably, gone even more to shit.

Hearts,
-X

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(Not all of this post is about just the one post I link to.)

As I mentioned elsewhere in email, wrt the LJ versus DW thing, and a post by yuki_onna about LJ:

It's the social network equivalent of "I'm moving to Canada!", rolled
up with the tendency for liberals to sacrifice the good to the perfect
when going candidate-shopping.  "I realise that our opponent is a
dog-fucker, literally, but our best candidate... *used a sexist term*.
How could we ever support them?"  It's fucking exhausting.

I mention this because one of the reasons someone listed for not moving to DW was that one of the founders was part of some Russia-related wank.  (I haven't had the brains to look it up yet, so this remains hearsay.)  Oh yeah, LJ certainly can't measure up to that level of tomfoolery.

I mean, if you love LJ then you do, no worries, but this "DW has problematic things! I can't possibly move over there!" crap is crap.  DW, to my knowledge, doesn't have adverts that are actually spamware.  It hasn't yet put mandatory binary gender things into the code.  It has news posts that are actually informative -- none of this horsing around in the news post, only to find out way elsewhere about actual news about LJ.  And, bonus, it doesn't have ShareThis crap!  (I secretly strongly dislike that button.)

("But I bought a permanent account, so I don't see that stuff!"  Good for you?)

As for the comments re evangelising, (a) the loudest 2% of any group tends to be the assholes (see also feminism!), and (b) I haven't seen any of that in a dog's age.  Strikes me as a bit "the lurkers support me in email" anyhow, since it's always "I see people evangelising", but no... actual links.  Just an intuitive sense.  Mmhmm.

And I really do not understand this going-on about invite codes and how that's Elitist.  If it's elitism to not really care for acres of sockpuppetry, then so be it.  (As someone else noted, too, it's funny to combine accusations of elitism with going on about how Facebook and Twitter are all one-liners, but LJ has meaty discourse!.)


Frankly, I figure that part of it is a dislike of change, and part of it is "but all my stuff is here!".  That's what it tends to be for me.  I realise it's not fully rational, and I suck it up anyhow.


Edited to add links to the "DW is bad? Really?" section.

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.