New LJ stuff

[matgb]

Some great stuff in today's worcester LJ code push, prompting my desire to test a feature. Still, one good thing, but would've liked to know it was happening; they've changed the tag limit from 100 to 1000, so my careful go back and split up my 'life' tag that I've been doing for the last month or so became fairly pointless overnight; has made the tag cloud itself look better though; it works out all sizes based on the biggest used tag, so having none over 100 makes the mid range tags look much bigger. Külness.
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However, still planning to decamp my journal hosting reasonably soon; NB, not leaving LJ, just hosting my journal elsewhere as well as here, not sure how to handle comments yet, but I'm not the first doing it and it seems to work for them. So, via lj2wordpress, Infotropism – Weaning yourself off LJ: Why you might want to. Followed up by a series of how-to guides, quite a nice post that.

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[foxfirefey]

Lemme tell ya, fandom is on a frickin' MISSION now. Check out fanarchive, it's pretty organized.

[matgb]

Hmm, yes, they are. Really regretting not sorting my head out a bit more and doing a lot of docs/installs for the wiki now, I've not touched it, and your mail is still in my "put aside a lot of thinking time" folder to respond to, what 4 months on. Ouch, moving, new job, memory failures, then a perfect lost opportunity.

I think with a few tweakes Wordpress MU would be perfect for a lot of what fandom wants, but haven't even tried a test install yet. Ah well.

Still, they're moving; people are looking into other options and planning to jump off; they're looking at another centralised site still, but that could be changed; decentralised archives with a central search engine would make much more sense. Hmm, and it'd clear up a lot of their legal concerns.

Must ponder this a bit. Crazy fen. Thanks, for both links.

[foxfirefey]

Eh, life. I have my thesis. But in their honor, I'm making a guide on using ljdump right now, and I modified the script to take command line arguments.