For some time now I’ve been plotting a method of extricating the thousand or so entries I have here on Livejournal, images and all, and hosting it all State-side.
Now, I’m not one of the people who were upset by the rule changes wrought by the Russian ownership of Livejournal — I don’t really do anything that rubs anyone the wrong way. Nor has the location of the servers or the Cyrillic users bothered me much — I was actually learning a bit of Russian on the side from the folks here…
My worries are more government-driven; politics ruins everything, and I’d rather not lose two decades of memories over some international spat brought about by something stupid.
Anyway, with the announcement of the fees for Livejournal switching to Rubles which possibly starts to incur foreign transaction fees, I figured it was probably time to get serious about whipping up a data translation method and moving everything to WordPress.
So, today I spent some quality time pouring over XML exports from LJ, writing a bulk-exporter, translator, and image duplicator. And getting everything settled at a new home.
Said new home is www.rihahn.com.
Everything that is here will continue to be here for as long as it can be here, but anything new will be posted over yonder.
I still have some cleanup to do on posts older than 2019 on the new site, but everything is stable for the most part.
Thanks for the couple decades of faithful service LJ!
~RiHahn