MOD POST the 3rd

[aj_crawley]

So! With LJ's latest news post being... what it is, we thought it was probably time to address the Dreamwidth Question.

As most of you have probably heard by now, Dreamwidth have stated that community imports are in the pipeline, albeit somewhat delayed by the current flood of sign-ups and imports. As of yet, there aren't any details on what (if any) restrictions there will be on this process, whether milliways_bar will be too big to handle, or - well, anything, really.

What we do know: if importing is at all possible, we will almost certainly be backing up the milliways_bar and ways_back_room archives to DW.

What we don't know (yet): whether a full-scale move of the game is something we can realistically do at this point. We're definitely not ruling it out, but... well, let's just say that the idea of trying to organise it kind of makes us want to weep in horror.

What you should do: this week only, you can create free Dreamwidth accounts without invite codes. Therefore,

As of now, we are encouraging everyone who hasn't already done so to set up mirror DW journals for their pups and import their content from LJ.

(And, if you love us, to please please oh god please give these mirror accounts the same usernames as their LJ counterparts.)

If nothing else, you'll have a back-up of your work. And if it comes to the point that Milliways does need to move to DW, the more character journals that are already over there, the less nightmarish the process will be.

Comments

[stripenfoxen.livejournal.com]

This includes retired/deleted characters? Not just the active cast?

[sophistry]

With retired/deleted characters, we'd certainly recommend it simply for the purpose of backing up journal content - but strictly for game purposes, no, it's not necessary. DW imports comments (and, I'm guessing, community entries) as being by the OpenID of the original LJ, so game-wise there's no need to make a new journal unless you plan on continuing to participate with that character.

[stripenfoxen.livejournal.com]

Right then. This'll be a time-saver at the very least. Thanks.

[vivien]

Ooooof, yeah, even I want to weep in horror at that idea, and I am all for BIG PROJECTS.

I would be so happy if we could back things up one day.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

Dreamwidth has this thing called Dreamhacks where people can make their own copy of the journal system. You get the programming script but can modify it however as necessary and the only usernames taken are the ones registered on that specifically.

I kind of wonder if that would serve our purposes. We wouldn't have to worry about invite codes or taken usernames or any of that at all.

They've got all the stuff here (http://hack.dreamwidth.net/).

[minkhollow]

Already ported over the four I'm most likely to keep (Sam and Cata's LJ names changed, but I was considering that anyway with Cata) and the one I may or may not app.
Might also port over Moist.
(And for timeline purposes, the DW news post actually says open account creation is through the end of the year, so... I guess try to fit it in by Saturday, but we might also have next week?)

[sophistry]

(And for timeline purposes, the DW news post actually says open account creation is through the end of the year, so... I guess try to fit it in by Saturday, but we might also have next week?)

Yeah - I've seen some places saying it's open until the end of the year, but the DW front page (when logged out) says it's this week only, so I figured better safe than sorry.

Question that has been burning on my mind...

[captain_fucking_magic]

I know technically it's a separate game, but what are the plans for Mixed Muses? Does anyone know?

I'm going to mirror my MM pups as well, just to be safe, because I'm more active over there than in M'ways proper lately, and I just love that game in general.

Re: Question that has been burning on my mind...

[sophistry]

mixed_muses!

:D

Re: Question that has been burning on my mind...

[captain_fucking_magic]

SCORE!

Right then. Time to import my boys over to DW. And because I'm a silver-lining sort of guy, Harry can finally have the username I'd originally wanted for him, but is against LJ's TOS. :D

[ashen_key]

*eyes her cast last*

...fun. This is so what I wanted to be spending my days off doing. But given I've had to scroll down to the bottom of the comments to find a 'leave comment' button that isn't COVERED WITH ADS JFC LIBEJOURNAL...*cracks knuckles*

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

Oy. I'll have to get started on this after work today.

Is there any Dreamweaver equivalent of the LJLogin extension for Firefox?

[oxfordtweed]

If you mean Dreamwidth equivalent, LJLogin works with DW. Just go into the preferences and select the DW thing. Check box. It has options for InsaneJournal and Scribbld and JournalFen and all sorts of stuff.

[honourbyname]

Yes. I've discovered this, and it's amazing.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Horribly stupid question.

If you have a journal backing up on DW can you log out and form new ones?

[kd7sov]

Apparently. Last I checked I had three simultaneous importings going.

[reincarnshaman.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well. Awesome.