death to capslock

How to claim your imported comments on Dreamwidth

2022-04-27T19:46:23Z

Posted by: sunnyskywalker

Technical post for anyone who's interested!

Since we imported this community from LiveJournal, your comments show up as OpenID comments, like this: exampleuser@livejournal.com.

What is OpenID? Basically, it's a service several sites, including those derived from LJ, use to let you comment using the credentials for just one of them: e.g., you can comment on DW using your LJ log-in. For a longer and more accurate explanation, here's the DW FAQ page on OpenID.

If you have a Dreamwidth account, you can "claim" your OpenID comments so that they'll now be directly linked to your DW account and you will never need the credentials of another site to manage them. You can edit them and do whatever else you can do to comments you make while logged into your DW account, your user icon will show up, etc.

Here are the Dreamwidth instructions for claiming your OpenID comments on Dreamwidth.

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deathtocapslock @ 2022-03-13T09:54:00

2022-03-13T09:54:00Z

Posted by: merrymelody.livejournal.com

We're all backed up at dreamwidth, should the worst happen to LJ. Thanks gingerbred for the kind tuition!

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DTCL community backup

2022-03-11T18:42:00Z

Posted by: sunnyskywalker

There is a chance that sites hosted in Russia won't be accessible from outside Russia at some point in the near future. LiveJournal is hosted in Russia. Not in Russia: me, and probably a lot of other DTCL members.

So it's a good time to think about backing up LJ journals and communities.

To preserve "snapshots" of posts for future viewing, you can save the URLs into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This means that if someone has links to posts but they stop working, they can plug the URLs into the Wayback Machine instead and still read them that way. I've run some DTCL URLs through there when I remembered (including the calendar navigation pages), but I'm sure there a lot that have not been captured. If there are any posts you want to save in the Wayback Machine, go for it!

For backing up your own LJ, there are a few LJ-clone sites you can export it to, if you haven't already. I think Dreamwidth is the most-used and best-maintained one right now. Here's their page on importing from Livejournal to Dreamwidth and a guide to Dreamwidth for LiveJournal users.

And here are a couple of dw_maintenance posts about current conditions for importing your LJ into Dreamwidth:

2022-03-10
2022-03-11

I am not the DTCL owner and so can't import it to another site. It's been pretty quiet here the past couple of years and I don't know if there's enough interest in keeping it going on another site anyway, but if everyone thinks it's a good idea, it would be possible to import the community into Dreamwidth for preservation's sake at least as long as our community owner is in a position to do that right now.

I'm also on Dreamwidth as Sunnyskywalker, so if any of you are or will be on Dreamwidth too, you can find me there. I'm on Archive of Our Own as Sunnyskywalker too.

Please feel free to post links to your own Dreamwidth, GreatestJournal, AO3, etc. accounts in the comments so everyone can connect with people they'd like to keep following!

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The Wisdom of Isaac Asimov

2019-01-04T18:54:00Z

Posted by: jana-ch.livejournal.com

The Wisdom of Isaac Asimov

A few days ago was Isaac Asimov’s 99th birthday. (Rather, his official birthday. He knew he was born between Oct 4, 1919 and Jan 2, 1920, and since he hated the idea of being old, he took the latest date possible as his birthday.) One of the comments on a blog I was reading that day about the Good Doctor was the following:

“Story that Isaac told: Isaac sat in on a class where the professor was teaching about one of his stories. He approached the professor after the class and said, ‘That story doesn’t mean that at all. I should know. I wrote it.’ And the professor looked at him and said, ‘So?’

And at that moment, Isaac said, he realized that the professor was right. No matter what the author intended, what the reader got out of it was what was really there.”

If only JKR had his wisdom. I suggest that the official motto of DTCL should be the following:

Saith Isaac Asimov: No matter what the author intends, what the reader gets out of the story is what is really there.

P.S. Don’t stop commenting on sunnyskywalker’s thread below just because I’ve started a new one. The intricacies of the Fidelius Charm are entirely worth a thorough thrashing out.

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Question re: Deathly Hallows.

2007-07-09T10:37:00Z

Posted by: q-spade.livejournal.com

Good Peoples of DTCL:

Soon Deathly Hallows will be released and the majority of community members will be reading it. Some of us will be at a bookstore at midnight queuing up for a copy, other folks will have it delivered via mail-order, some intrepid souls will seek out the text online the day of release, and others will be haggling with the shady streetcorner bookseller dude for a cheap "fell-off-the truck-YEAH-RIGHT" copy. ;D

Invariably there'll be a reaction post here on DTCL right after the release date (if not the day of) so we can get our love/hate/WTF on, but I was wondering when would be a good time to start recapping the chapters. There's also the matter of spoilage to deal with; not only do different people read at a different pace, but if various countries have alternate release dates then that's also important to keep in mind. DTCL is a global community, after all. :)

What is everyone most comfortable with? Do we want to coordinate so that everyone who wants to recap starts at the same time? Or might that be too overwhelming?

What do you all think?

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welcome entry

2006-10-16T15:44:00Z

Posted by: merrymelody.livejournal.com

This is deathtocapslock, a community devoted to snarky/mocking discussion of the Harry Potter series.
We recap chapters, usually in chronological order and one a week, on Fridays, although none of this is set in stone.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to post their own, as well as on-topic HP-related discussion (for instance, our sister community occasionally featured spoilers, HP essays and recaps of the HP movies.)

( New members, links to other sporkers, and graphics )

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deathtocapslock @ 2005-08-16T09:25:00

2005-08-16T09:25:00Z

Posted by: merrymelody.livejournal.com

Hey there! Good to see so many members already. I sent a bunch of invites also, but quickly went up to the limit!
Just thought we could do with an extra place to discuss this stuff without interrupting the_snarkery. (I'm still posting there, btw, just in case you see me or anyone else who's at both and get confused!)
So I'm not any kind of boss here, anyone can post at anytime. But I thought we could do with a first entry, maybe see what everyone feels like doing:

[Poll #552911]

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