LiveJournal lays off substantial number of employees without severance (various estimates of numbers, but roughly half the thirty staff seems right – summary here).
Fortunately, there is a good choice of software for backing up your journal:
- ljArchive (Windows only, archives entries and comments)
- ljmigrate (needs python, archives entries, comments and userpics)
- ljdump (needs python, archives entries and comments)
- LJBook (produces PDF of your LJ, currently overwhelmed)
- LiveJournal Backup (Windows only, archives entries and comments)
- LJSM (needs perl, archives entries, comments, memories, userpics, other images)
- jbackup (needs perl, archives entries and comments)
- XJournal (OS X only, GUI-based, archives entries only
- LiveJournal Export (month by month as XML, archives entries only)
This is a cybernetic datum for the public good.