Hmmm... I wanted to post a journal today but can't.  
  Thanks Obama!!

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
and there's still the issue of the current member posts that were overwritten by the former member data barf.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
Countdown to Data Barf in the Band Names thread... 
 
So I got this bright idea DUH we can delete those former member posts and clean things up in there but OH no we can't ... it brings up that same No-Can-Do message. Dang. 

Thanks Former Members for the data barf!

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Agreed.  There are some things I've written here that don't exist anywhere else, and it's sort of a record of where my head's been over the past 12 years.  I also really treasured many of the comments, but as others have pointed out, those are often lost in the sea of "former member" data barf.

 steeler wrote: 
It's kind of a drudge to also get the comments.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
It is hard to copy from one's journal and paste somewhere else?

 steeler wrote: 
Yeah, I just went and looked at one of my journals and clearly I responded to some earlier comments that are no longer there, and there are 22 versions of the same comment (in large green type), all from "former member" but some of them have different avatars.

It's clearly beyond salvaging at this point. If Bill just wants to do away with any sort of journal option entirely, that's fine. If that's going to happen for sure, I'd like to harvest what I can but as Kurt has pointed out, that's going to be a bit of a chore. So maybe a month's or 3 months warning once the decision is made? Or if he wants to transition to a different system, if he can leave both up for a while that would let us move our stuff. But really, I guess cutting the cord is fine at this point. I have a few things that I like to have associated with my profile but I can copy them off today. 

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
This was a problem.  If one who later became a "former member" had commented on a journal, that comment would  be multiplied by the number of former members on the site, an ever-growing number.  At least that is how I understood it.    

I think one of the reasons the journals lost some charm was an unfortunate side effect of past members insisting that Bill delete their history. It left the journal comments in a mess often deleting comments from current members and replacing them as duplicates of the deleted past member
so saving the old journals for some kind of archive is pretty much useless if the comments are of any interest.

 steeler wrote: Yes!! !  'Cause I'll drink to almost anything!

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Thanks! 

sirdroseph wrote:

 

Thanks!  

 

 Beanie wrote:

 
 

BEANIE!!!

 

I'm sharing your latest blog with all my coworkers. We salute you.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Whaaaat? 

sheesh

 lily34 wrote: 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
another kitten!!

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
take a look, she's called nancy

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
What'd you get me?

 Beanie wrote: 
oh shit.