Popular Science: Patch a potential privacy risk by deleting your ancient LiveJournal. “I looked into ways to back up LiveJournal posts. It wasn’t straightforward. At all. LiveJournal offers an official exporting tool, but it can only export one month’s worth of posts at a time, which is basically useless. I tried using Wget to scrape old entries, but this backfired hilariously: LiveJournal blocked my IP address. After a lot of research, I figured out that using WordPress is the best way to back up your old LiveJournal posts. Of course, if you have no interest in saving anything and just want to delete your LiveJournal account, you can skip straight to that section below.”
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XDA Developers: Twitter’s Periscope video archive is going away, download your broadcasts while you can
XDA Developers: Twitter’s Periscope video archive is going away, download your broadcasts while you can. “If you’ve opened up Twitter over the past few days, chances are, you’ve seen a warning message pop up for your archived Periscope videos. A new message has also been pinned to the Periscope FAQ page, directing users to download their videos before they’re gone forever. Unfortunately, Twitter isn’t exactly being clear about when the files will be removed, and is now just ‘encouraging’ users to download them or ‘risk losing them.'”
Mashable: Remembering Tumblr’s strangest, most formative communities
Mashable: Remembering Tumblr’s strangest, most formative communities. “In the rearview, a singular Tumblr era has taken hold of the cultural consciousness. Known as the 2014 Tumblr Girl aesthetic, the overall vibe involves a devotion to American Apparel, subversive teen series Skins, the black-and-white filter, Lorde, and Matty Healy of The 1975. But there’s so much more to Tumblr, the blogging platform that raised an entire generation of fangirls and artists, than one aesthetic. What about the often forgotten communities on Tumblr that made it such a meaningful platform to so many different people? They might have been written out of public consciousness, but they’ll always be a formative part of our adolescence.”
Mashable: One man’s frustrating journey to recovering his Myspace
Mashable: One man’s frustrating journey to recovering his Myspace. “I’m not sure what triggered my journey. A nagging nostalgia, I suppose. Affection for an internet long gone. A part of my life I hardly remember. A certain bored curiosity that comes with life in quarantine. I wanted to access my old Myspace.”
National Library of New Zealand: Looking for Old Friends?
National Library of New Zealand: Looking for Old Friends?. “Old Friends (www.oldfriends.co.nz) was a popular social networking website owned by Trade Me. Its purpose was to help people locate former school friends and workmates. Members who signed up to Old Friends could upload photos, post comments, contact each other and compile information for reunions. The site was launched in 2002 and finally closed in 2016. When Trade Me announced that they would be taking the site down, the National Library quickly got in touch to see if we could work together to harvest a copy of Old Friends for the Library’s collections.”