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The LJ Scrapbook Thing...
Apr. 29th, 2012 11:09 am...is not a bad thing. For once. LJ fucks up a lot with their updates, I know, but this time there is not really any reason to panic.
For those of you who haven't heard; the old LJ Scrapbook is being replaced by a new LJ Scrapbook and there's a lot of wrong information going around because of an incorrect Russian-to-English translation of the post on the new scrapbook beta community. Or something.
Anyway, I let them transfer my pictures yesterday and it's really not a problem. So... facts:
+ It's been said that the image space has gone from 10GB to 2GB and that all +2GB pics are going to be lost during the transfer, which isn't true. It's always been 2GB and you still have the option of upgrading to 10GB (as far as I can see). Besides, 2GB is a lot, and I can't imagine that many people are actually over that limit. (I have A LOT of art uploaded and I've been using LJ and Scrapbook since 2006, and I'm only slightly over 350MB, so...)
+ The image links in your entries are not going to be broken after the transfer.
+ Yes, the security level of your pics might change during the transfer. As far as I know, all my pictures were public before the transfer; after it, they were private (so that only I could see them). They were still showing up for everyone in the entries but only I could see them in the galleries. But it's really easy to change the security level, so again - not really a problem.
+ The new Scrapbook doesn't look much different than the old one and is way easier to use. If you wanna see what it looks like - look at mine here :)
Of course I get that some people are worried about losing pics - so it's always safer to back them up before doing the transfer. But if everything works out, you shouldn't lose anything, really.
They're going to transfer everyone's pics in the next few weeks, as far as I know, but if you want to do the switch now before everyone else, you can comment with a + here in this post. :)
And... that's it, really!
EDIT: The only thing I've noticed is that a header I have in my scrapbook and that I'm using on other journals - insanejournal/dreamwidth/scribbld/whatever - is not showing up because only the URLs in actual livejournal entries are being redirected. But it's not like that's a huge deal cause you only have to replace a couple of links in the CSS :)
For those of you who haven't heard; the old LJ Scrapbook is being replaced by a new LJ Scrapbook and there's a lot of wrong information going around because of an incorrect Russian-to-English translation of the post on the new scrapbook beta community. Or something.
Anyway, I let them transfer my pictures yesterday and it's really not a problem. So... facts:
+ It's been said that the image space has gone from 10GB to 2GB and that all +2GB pics are going to be lost during the transfer, which isn't true. It's always been 2GB and you still have the option of upgrading to 10GB (as far as I can see). Besides, 2GB is a lot, and I can't imagine that many people are actually over that limit. (I have A LOT of art uploaded and I've been using LJ and Scrapbook since 2006, and I'm only slightly over 350MB, so...)
+ The image links in your entries are not going to be broken after the transfer.
+ Yes, the security level of your pics might change during the transfer. As far as I know, all my pictures were public before the transfer; after it, they were private (so that only I could see them). They were still showing up for everyone in the entries but only I could see them in the galleries. But it's really easy to change the security level, so again - not really a problem.
+ The new Scrapbook doesn't look much different than the old one and is way easier to use. If you wanna see what it looks like - look at mine here :)
Of course I get that some people are worried about losing pics - so it's always safer to back them up before doing the transfer. But if everything works out, you shouldn't lose anything, really.
They're going to transfer everyone's pics in the next few weeks, as far as I know, but if you want to do the switch now before everyone else, you can comment with a + here in this post. :)
And... that's it, really!
EDIT: The only thing I've noticed is that a header I have in my scrapbook and that I'm using on other journals - insanejournal/dreamwidth/scribbld/whatever - is not showing up because only the URLs in actual livejournal entries are being redirected. But it's not like that's a huge deal cause you only have to replace a couple of links in the CSS :)
