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Date: 2017-04-03 11:38 pm (UTC)The fact that I can't access my journal completely unless I agree, that I can't cross-post unless I agree, etc. etc. makes me less and less apt to want to agree. Of course SUP can do this, because it's SUP's baby, and of course a lot of folks have said that it's No Big Thing for various reasons. I still don't like it, especially since I'm *not* "getting it for free" - I pay for my account. And actually, I'm not sure whether my paid account is worth it at this point.
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Date: 2017-04-03 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-04 12:03 am (UTC)It sounds like a plan I'll be considering over the next day or so.
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Date: 2017-04-05 06:27 pm (UTC)Your import has failed to import.
XMLRPC failure: Terms of Service agreement required
It was worth a try.
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Date: 2017-04-06 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-06 06:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-04 12:35 am (UTC)I did see in the new user agreement some paragraphs in bold text, but have no idea whether that means they're the new ones or the changed ones or whether that just means someone didn't close a bold tag properly.
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Date: 2017-04-04 12:58 am (UTC)Additionally, some of the bolded sections appear to be at odds with each other.
All in all, sketchy in the extreme, non-transparent and unhelpful to both paid and non-paid users, and even more of a reason to considering leaving LJ completely.
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Date: 2017-04-04 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-04 02:30 am (UTC)Registered this DW account five minutes ago, will be deleting my LJ shortly. Thankfully, unlike most LJ people, I don't have 10+ years of posting history to archive or port over, so I've got it fairly easy.
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Date: 2017-04-04 03:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-04 01:33 am (UTC)Someone on my reading list has suggested that under Russian law, even the mention of the existence of gay people is grounds for flagging an entry "18+".
I have no idea whether this would be true or not. This Wikipedia article implies yes. (Yeah, I know: Wikipedia. But it often makes a decent starting point.)
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Date: 2017-04-04 01:48 am (UTC)My paid status at LJ has expired as of a few days ago, and having transferred my own content from "On the DEWLine" to Dreamwidth, I am now considering "torching" my LJ archives.
Updating, a few minutes later: It's done. My account is dead. I haven't (yet) torched my comments in the several communities and other users' accounts, but I understand that's still possible for the next 60 days...
How did you delete your account?
Date: 2017-04-04 08:17 pm (UTC)Sorry to bother you, but this conversation was the only place it looked like I might be able to find up to date information.
Re: How did you delete your account?
Date: 2017-04-04 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-04 02:03 am (UTC)Poor Vlad. When is he going to learn that wishing things away doesn't make them magically vanish?
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Date: 2017-04-04 07:43 am (UTC)The Apple support person I got wouldn't even consider the possibility that they might block certain IP addresses, even though any sane provider will do so as part of their spam fighting. So I've no clue what caused one of the biggest ISPs to become persona non grata to our new Russian overlords.
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Date: 2017-04-04 08:31 am (UTC)Anyway, I just did another import of LJ comments to Dreamwidth, and it seems that you have to agree to the new user agreement in order for the import to work.
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Date: 2017-04-04 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-04 09:42 pm (UTC)Commenting after switch
Date: 2017-04-04 08:27 pm (UTC)I used to comment a lot on the old LJ, but I didn't have an account - I used Twitter to login. I've revoked LJ's app access to my Twitter account, but DW does not seem to have an option to establish my identity the same way, and I don't have a DW account or OpenID. I'm not sure how to maintain continuity of identity, or even how the commenting system here works--it looks like anonymous comments are screened, which is presumably more work for the blog owner.
Any suggestions? I'd rather not create a new social media account just to comment here.
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Date: 2017-04-05 02:45 pm (UTC)That person just got a promotion and a raise.
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Date: 2017-04-05 10:16 pm (UTC)The line that I'm worried about is actually 9.2.6, though! "The User may not without the Administration’s special permit, use automatic scripts (bots, crawlers etc.) to collect information from the Service and/or to interact with the Service." Gosh.
The thing that troubles me personally is that, if they're serious enough about this to edit robots.txt to reflect it, the Wayback Machine's archive of LJ disappears. But there are obviously a lot of other fun consequences, like LJ being removed from Google's search results, the ban on backup/export utilities, etc.
(I actually just made an actual post about this here - what is the world coming to.)
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Date: 2017-04-06 12:06 am (UTC)This is what jumped out at me:
License to spam?
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Date: 2017-04-10 04:13 pm (UTC)