How to find your friends on other journals (when their names are the same as LJ).

[icarus]

Allow me to make your life a little easier, courtesy of electricandroid.

There is a reasonably quick way to find your friends on Journalfen, Greatestjournal, and Insanejournal.

http://www.journalfen.net/admin/console
http://www.greatestjournal.com/admin/console

- Copy/paste your flist from your LJ user page into Word
- Do edit/replace of the commas with ^pfriend add so the list ends up looking like this:

friend add icarusancalion
friend add amothea
friend add ...

- Copy/paste this list into the admin/console
-Then to find those who didn't turn up, save the resulting HTML file (use View / Source and save that) which will give you a list of all those you need to hunt for
-Check the people you've friended to make sure they're the same ones. Most people are using the same names, but sometimes names are taken. For example, the ncp on greatestjournal is not the same one as LJ.

Voila!

ETA: I'm keeping my LJ here as two of my current fandoms are not moving. I go where the readers go. I no longer trust Livejournal and -- what's the phrase? -- I'm tying up my camel.

Comments

[ngaio]

That's pretty much what I'm doing (minus the creativity!), crosspost, establish as good back-ups as I can, see where people are. Personally I think most people are going to stay here but doing the above, making sure there's redundancy built in.

Oh, and thanks for the c/p permission!

PS I was so proud of myself, I was nearly defeated by the cross-posting set up thing and logged into Trillian so I could mug you for help but you weren't there so I had another browse through the post with instructions and found what I was doing wrong and fixed it, kinda all by myself (but not really!). I didn't have to cry on your shoulder, woo hoo!