Various developments in the saga (actual property of being interesting not guaranteed).

Extra bonus advice for our young, foolish troller included at end!

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Finally implemented. I watched and read comments on Disclose-Secret’s main post for a long time (6 months or so?) and let others be early adopters, before installing this on my blog. It turns out that even though this plugin was written for WordPress 2.1, it works okay on WordPress 2.5.1 (my current version). While the protection for pages apparently doesn’t work any more (locking protected pages completely), it still works just fine for posts, which is what I intend to lock down.

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Though honestly I am not the worst on this thread, and ulitave already did his part.

Oh, and one person tried to stand up for the poor beleaguered white women, but was soundly shut down, and not too violently, I think.

Link.

I left it a bit longer than I’d intended, but I’m doing the deletions now.

The utility I found is working, but is going more slowly than I thought. Also, it’s possible that I nuked some entries I didn’t mean to nuke. So sorry.

If you try to use the thing, my advice is to delete its cached copy of your journal between deletion operations and restart the app. Also, prepare to do operations throughout the day because if you do enough server requests Livejournal gets cranky and refuses to work with you.

I just wanted to make it clear that I don’t require anyone else to leave LJ. That I am doing so is my personal decision, but the departure of my self is gradual - I’ll keep crossposting and when I have time I will also read friends lists and leave comments.

Anyway, misia pointed me to a probably more neutral treatment of the acquisition by Robert Amsterdam, which talks about some things I did not know that ameliorate the situation a little for me, and some things that make me ask more disturbing questions. Here’s the link.

Testing LiveJournal CrossPoster 2.0 plugin.

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This is about the WordPress plug-in User Permissions, which works great from the point of view of organizing users so they can all collaborate at different permissions levels on the same blog, but is clearly not written or designed to facilitate different users’ varying access levels to a single blog/journal that is written by a single author. So like, I’d say if you were going to run a Wordpress-driven LJ-like community, User Permissions would be your bag, baby, but for my purposes, I think the other one I was looking at (that is still being ported to WordPress 2.3) is probably better. So I will wait with bated breath for that one (Disclose-Secret) to be ported/made available for WordPress 2.3 instead.

So in the field of battle, it works. It allows for different individual posts to have different audiences. Unfortunately, you can’t change the naming of the audiences, and some of them automatically have rights to, for instance, edit your posts (and the ability to change different post settings).

But for my purposes, I think I will just continue to make only unlocked posts and wait for something better to come along.

Also, I had earlier mentioned WordPress Group Restriction. That one, according to my further reading, only really does similar things to User Permissions, but for WordPress Pages, which are non-post publishing entities people normally use for permanent/semi-permanent pages like about pages. They’d map more closely to your LiveJournal Profile page or Userpics page or so on. So that’s not a good choice for me either.

I’ll certainly let ya’ll know, though, if I find a good alternative.

Meanwhile, it should be known that I installed/activated Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress 2.0 (recently updated), as well as LJ4WP (which activates the <lj username> tag within WordPress, which I shall largely use to refer to misia in my posts - and which does not appear to work, so screw that.).

P.S. Something screwed with the outgoing URLs on this post. Fixed.

I’m preparing to delete my old LJ posts.

I have just exported via LJ’s export utility, all months since I started (2003-07), as XML. I plan to use LJArchive (requires .NET) to download all posts and comments, and I will probably also wait until I have made a PDF-based LJBook as well (and may donate as well).

But then, I’m nuking those bastards.