Dare to be different and learn to be lonely

Over the years I archived over 12000 (TWELVE THOUSAND!!!) images on LiveJournal. Whenever there was a new platform I tried it (I'm BeeLikeJ all over the internet) yet I've never found such a great combination of journaling, community and image archiving as on LJ.

I have a permanent account on LJ (these were only occasionally available; it means I don't have to pay anymore charges and Livejournal shows me no ads). I have a Blogspot, a Twitter, an InsaneJournal (!), a Tumblr, an Instagram, a Pillowfort and a (paid) Dreamwidth account, pretty much from the start. I also moderate a lot of communities on most of these platforms.
I had a Photobucket from before LJ's scrapbook, which I managed to back-up when that site went kablooy.
I've been crossposting from Dreamwidth for years, automatically when available and by hand now that LJ has shut down that option. So I have a back-up of all my posts online, but my images remain linked from LJ only.

When word went around that LJ might be cut off, I tried to find a way to safeguard my images as well. I found two easy methods!

( Turn your journal or blog into a pdf book )

( Download your LJ-scrapbook (photo-albums) )

I feel so relieved to have my own back-up now, hope this helps anyone who was looking for ways to save their journal stuff:)

J.

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Did you hear the good news? LJ decided to keep the old style friend's list! Plus they listened and responded to something odd I noticed today and SOLVED IT right away. I'm so happy. I don't know what's going on with TPTB, but I like it.

Also: I posted my artwork for the SPN_J2_BigBang, made for a wonderful story by ar_richardson:)

Only one more challenge to goooooooooooooo.

Is anyone else missing their sidebar on their friends' page? Could this be the first step towards that new design? *pouts* How very inconvenient, it has all my important links in it.