On Jan 1, 2026 no less I was alerted to a Bluesky post about the potential end of life for Livejournal. This reminded me of the year 2022. Russia was already tinkering with social networks back then so I set about to create an archive tool back then. Hours turned into days then weeks then months. I kept developing & improving it. It became an obsession. It worked really well but LJ was still up. I moved on. Change in administrations and all. The Jan 1st, 2026 post immediately reminded me I might have something relevant to the situation and if you are reading this then this Jan 11th, 2026 post may be relevant to you too.
What is it? What does it do?
Archives Public User Journals and Community Journals
If you are a member, you can sign in and archive member-only posts
Creates a spreadsheet inventory of every post that includes: date, time, post title, user who made the post if a community and total number of comments per post.
Offline html copy of all the posts saved in a generic theme for easy readability
It created offline links so you can navigate the journal using the previous < and next > links locally as if you were online.
We had time so we set about to master archiving Kink Memes. I didn't even know what they were, but I just knew they had lots and lots of comments. Lots. Did I say lots. I was surprised to here it archived over 300k thousand comments.
There is a mode called blender were you can stack a bunch of journals and click a button, and it will bulk archive multiple journals.
Someone asked if we could set up a method of just archiving a few individual pages not a whole journal. We added that too.
It can be found at LJArchivr.com
It does require a little setup which we are glad to help with but once that's done you are just clicking buttons. You need Windows or Parallels on the Mac and Microsoft Excel. Here is what someone said.
Ok, I am starting to feel like a salesman or influencer. I am only writing for those that may interest since this was also mentioned somewhere else here on Tumblr with the Caveat that it cost money. However, not much. Saying a little more about it here might help you determine if it's worth it. There was a lot of time spent developing it with feedback from Livejournal users and it's amazing how we keep seeing ways to make it better. This has now turned into a team project. On the horizon is archiving pics. For now, we recommend PDFing the HTMLs before the image links die (Ok, I think I am getting too technical. I should stop). We can also help you set it up because we want you to spend your time archiving. However, we included user friendly tutorials to do it yourself.
Can you archive my journal or community?
Yes! We know not everyone has Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Excel so if you have 1 or 2 smallish journals, you'd like us to archive let us know. We can put that in the blender and give you some nutritional nostalgia. However, please know if you want locked or private posts it's better you do it yourself using the tool. We don't want you to give us your username and password.
I did this on my own but with the help of one member of a team dedicated to preserving fandom works. However, there is a team if you are interested in helping with this project. Over 6600 journals have been archived already. You may not even need to archive because what you are looking to archive may have already been archived. This tool is useful for your own local copy of course. If you are interested in joining send an email to [email protected] and indicating that in your email.
Whether or not this is the end of Livejournal I think is better to archive during the less panicked days than during the last days where everyone is slamming the servers like it's a Black Friday sale. Don't wait for the next post on either here or Bluesky. Again, if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact us [email protected] I'll update this post based on feedback in case I need to add things I missed. Happy Archiving. 😊
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