![]() Second, it chokes on blog entries that have more than 100 or so comments. It requires enormous amounts of memory to import a LiveJournal blog with more than a couple hundred entries at the time I did the migration, I had north of 1,600 blog posts. There is an LJ importer for WordPress, and a tutorial for moving your LJ blog to Wordpress here, but, as I discovered, there are a few gotchas.įirst, the LJ importer plugin was not tested on large blogs. I moved my LJ to WordPress, a process that was extraordinarily painful. (Fixing that will be a massive undertaking, involving changing many hundreds of links in thousands of blog posts.) The blog there is a mirror of the blog here, though links over there point to blog entries here rather than there. I am concerned that there's a very real possibility this blog may disappear at any time without warning.įor a couple of years now, I've kept a backup of this blog over at. I'm not concerned that the Kremlin is going to demand my extradition to Russia to face trial. ![]() "Propaganda of non-traditional relationships" is forbidden by this law. This blog is routinely read by more than 3,000 people, making me a "publisher" under Russian law.Īnd, more worrying, the Russian " gay propaganda law" forbids discussion of "sexual deviancy," which includes LGBTQ issues. The new Terms of Service have two provisions that directly impact me: in accordance with Russian law, any blog or community read by more than 3,000 readers is considered a 'publication' and is subject to State controls on publications, including the provision that the blogger or moderator is legally liable under Russian law for any content posted by any user and blogs are prohibited from "perform any other actions contradictory to the laws of the Russian Federation." The bits I do want to talk about are those bits directly relevant to me and this blog. (Interestingly, there's no discussion of the change on the official LJ Policy community, and in fact there hasn't been any discussion there since 2015.) That's been done already in many places on the Web, including here, here, here, and here. I don't intend to go into a full analysis of the implications of the new ToS. ![]() ![]() And since doing so, it's been required to update its Terms of Service to comply with Russian law, which is rather odious and, well, Russian. LiveJournal was bought many moons ago by a Russian company, but only recently moved its servers to Russia. ![]()
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