Hey, > Comment Important is a hard problem because it allows users to > attribute arbitrary words to other people. This is the reason no > "migrate" tool uploads comments -- no LJplatform allows a user to > upload comments attributed to someone else. >
Actually, this is not correct. I saw a Russian LJ clone @ lj.rossia.org that allows exporting journal with all comments in it. Let me describe how it works in a nutshell with some details: 1) You enter your LJ username/pwd and create an export job on the site. 2) The job asynchronously starts, runs, and stops, and you can monitor how it runs on a special page. 3) When it's finished, your journal is copied with all entries (with appropriate privacy level, with only exception that probably your friends groups will be empty; and with links to originals), comments (assigned to fake users with usernames like imp_12432 that are unable to log in), tags, etc. The fake comments idea is an implementation of the "mark as exported" idea voiced in here previously, and maybe it addresses D's point of fair use of copyright and like. They claim their code to be GPL -- however, when I tried to find how to download it, I failed, and you should be careful copying it from them because they're (read it as: their leader, tiphareth) hostile to the DW project and to D in particular for the reason for the reason they think slashfics are pervert, and any content restrictions are evil. ;-) Anyway, if you still want to take a look at the code, you can ask me to ask them for it in Russian, and I'll attempt to communicate with them. Note however that this codebase is ancient, as the service was started back in 2005 and never synced with LJ since then. - Andrew _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
