The facts I discovered today have not caused me to change my assessment of the risk of DW disappearing in, say, the next 2 years.
Paolucci mentions being bored. New existential risks to Dreamwidth seem like the kind of thing a person might find interesting enough that they would overcome boredom.
I think there are noteworthy existing infrastructure, security, and sustainability risks to this platform, and that those have been in place for some time. We don't have two-factor auth. I'm not sure how much engineering time is available for the site or dedicated to ongoing work, and so it feels unclear to me how quickly they would be able to respond in case of a complex outage or a security vulnerability.
my perception
Definitely good to have a backup plan.
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The facts I discovered today have not caused me to change my assessment of the risk of DW disappearing in, say, the next 2 years.
Paolucci mentions being bored. New existential risks to Dreamwidth seem like the kind of thing a person might find interesting enough that they would overcome boredom.
I think there are noteworthy existing infrastructure, security, and sustainability risks to this platform, and that those have been in place for some time. We don't have two-factor auth. I'm not sure how much engineering time is available for the site or dedicated to ongoing work, and so it feels unclear to me how quickly they would be able to respond in case of a complex outage or a security vulnerability.
Here is how to export your journal. Right now there is no way to download all of it at once -- it's month-by-month -- or to download comments you have made on others' journals (I filed a GitHub issue about that in January 2020).