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

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Hi.

I need to do a post about my plans.

I'm multiposting via Semagic (personal posts, everything) and waiting to see where fandom lands.

If SGA and SPN, my two main fandoms right now, stay here, then that's where I'll stay. But I do feel that Livejournal's days are numbered. Critics of Livejournal are pointing to a waning number of active users. Corporate defenders of Livejournal are saying that Livejournal is only a tiny part of the whole Six Apart organization.

To hear the same thing from both sides... well.

Icarus

[wildebeth.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope not. I can't afford to flush $150 down the toilet. I think you're only one of two people contemplating an exodus on my (admittedly small) flist, but I guess we'll see how it goes.

Eh. I'm oxymoron on JF, just in case. :)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Most people on my friendslist are doing what I'm doing: cross-posting to other journal services.

The more likely change will come from Six Apart and what they decide to do. I can't imagine the latest uproar will help their IPO offering or to find a buyer for Livejournal. But everything I'm hearing from Six Apart suggests that they don't want Livejournal.

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Even if every person on LJ decided to bail, it wouldn't happen for a while, because it takes a loooong time to migrate. When I first decided to leave Earthlink I established my new website for six months beforehand, and I used my new email for almost a year before that.

Icarus