I wasn't paying terribly close attention and I let my DreamWidth subscription expire. I renewed it today, and I hope I didn't lose anything for the roughly one day I fell back to a free account.
Why the Captchas?
Jan. 11th, 2024 09:29 amSome of you linking to my Dreamwidth entries through Mastodon (to which I post links from most posts) are getting a Captcha check on all entries. Thanks to someone who reads the entries and who investigated why it was happening, we got this explanation from ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
karelia@techhub.social:
karelia@techhub.social:If you are not using a VPN and you regularly get the captcha from our hosting provider (the graphical on instead of the DW-native text one), please email support@dreamwidth.org with your IP address… we are very well aware of the security and privacy reasons to use a VPN service for internet browsing, and we really wish we didn't have to put those barriers in the way of some of the VPN services people use to access the site, but the overwhelming majority of our abusive traffic comes from free VPN services. It's been getting sharply worse lately, and we've needed to take some radical steps to curtail it. I apologize profusely to those of you who are using those services legitimately for the inconvenience you've been experiencing.
Full text here: https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/90925.html
Bear's Journey to DW
Apr. 18th, 2017 03:22 pm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
travelswithkuma is now migrated to Dreamwidth, with the same user ID. Posts there are now set up to automatically cross-post to his LJ. New posts should be at Dreamwidth.I will soon pull the trigger on migrating my own LJ. I'll post here on LJ before I do so, because based on the DW backlog, I'll probably be offline for several days while DW tries to digest my journal.
No Comment
Apr. 12th, 2017 10:37 amComments are still queued for travelswithkuma as DreamWidth continues to be hammered with LiveJournal refugees. Let's hope an influx of Paid members keeps DW running for a while.
travelswithkuma as DreamWidth continues to be hammered with LiveJournal refugees. Let's hope an influx of Paid members keeps DW running for a while.Bearly There
Apr. 11th, 2017 03:29 pmtravelswithkuma's LiveJournal has made it to DreamWidth, but the comments are still queued up. Once that's finished, I will work on linking it back to LJ. After that, it will be time to take the big plunge and migrate my LJ. Since it took Kuma's LJ more than two days to move, mine will probably take a month.
We're still waiting for travelswithkuma's journal and comments to make the transfer from LJ to DreamWidth. I'm not going to trigger my own transfer (and set up the link back to LJ from DW) until I've seen Kuma's journal, which is much smaller than mine, moved. If I'm reading the status correctly, there are over 1500 users queued up waiting to have their journals imported to DW.
My own journal is much larger. I may go dark for a few days when I choose to make the jump to DW.
travelswithkuma's journal and comments to make the transfer from LJ to DreamWidth. I'm not going to trigger my own transfer (and set up the link back to LJ from DW) until I've seen Kuma's journal, which is much smaller than mine, moved. If I'm reading the status correctly, there are over 1500 users queued up waiting to have their journals imported to DW.My own journal is much larger. I may go dark for a few days when I choose to make the jump to DW.
Probably Moving
Apr. 9th, 2017 04:46 pmIt seems that the revised terms of service for LiveJournal do not technically apply to Permanent and Paid accounts. I have the former, and travelswithkuma has the latter. Nevertheless, it may be that The Time Has Finally Come. I guess I can't say that I didn't get my money's worth with the Permanent account. As I recall, it amounted to seven years of at-that-time annual cost, and I've been posting since August 27, 2005.
After family discussion, we're migrating Kuma's LJ over to DreamWidth first. It's much smaller than mine, so we're using it to get the hang of how to do the migration and setup. His account will be https://travelswithkuma.dreamwidth.org/. The import is currently queued. There's no surprise that there continues to be a long queue of users migrating material into DW from LJ.
I do not currently intend to delete my LiveJournal account. As a permanent member, I don't see why I should. Even if by some chance I manage to do something to run afoul of Russian law, I don't anticipate ever visiting Russia (despite the idea of taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad being intriguing), so I'm not sure how anything could happen other than my journal being deleted.
travelswithkuma has the latter. Nevertheless, it may be that The Time Has Finally Come. I guess I can't say that I didn't get my money's worth with the Permanent account. As I recall, it amounted to seven years of at-that-time annual cost, and I've been posting since August 27, 2005.After family discussion, we're migrating Kuma's LJ over to DreamWidth first. It's much smaller than mine, so we're using it to get the hang of how to do the migration and setup. His account will be https://travelswithkuma.dreamwidth.org/. The import is currently queued. There's no surprise that there continues to be a long queue of users migrating material into DW from LJ.
I do not currently intend to delete my LiveJournal account. As a permanent member, I don't see why I should. Even if by some chance I manage to do something to run afoul of Russian law, I don't anticipate ever visiting Russia (despite the idea of taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad being intriguing), so I'm not sure how anything could happen other than my journal being deleted.
