#insanejournal codes

[wootteocodes]

Insanejournal Codes

Huh searched insanejournal on here and surprised I got recent results of people using it. Maybe I'll post my IJ codes here as I get this new blog up and going

[theflagscene]

As someone who has been in online RPGs for over a decade… almost two if I’m being honest with myself (Jesus I’m old) there’s still one journal site that is somewhat active in the text based RPG community and that’s InsaneJournal. I’m in an active RPG that’s been around on that site for close to 13, yeah, me and my friends are really lame. But they’re also lifelong friends that I made via text based RPGs, so I’d say pop over to InsaneJournal and take a look around at the various communities there, I think you’d be surprised at how many are still active. Also Hollow Art - a staple in the community - has a Tumblr that’s still actively posts RP icons if you’re in need of any of those.

i dont like the idea that kids these days are doing their fandom rps with ai chatbots. that's how you're supposed to make lifelong friends as a weird really online teen.

[horniestowl]

Looking for a Blitzø for an Insanejournal GPSL set in the world of Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss! Would love to write a scene or two before we commit to make sure our styles click. I can provide a journal code if we decide it's a match, and I'd be more than happy to help find a name (they're a little scarce) and give you a rename token if needed. I'm just dying to see these two idiots fumble their way to a happy ending and I need someone to help me get them there. Writing sample/scene starter below! (I've never done Tumblr rp before sorry if I'm doing stuff wrong.)

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It wasn't the first time that Stolas had checked his phone in the last hour. It wasn't even the tenth, or the twentieth. He has lost track, really, of how often he'd been looking for a text that hadn't come. Not yet. Maybe not ever.

Oh dear Lucifer, please don't let it be not ever.

Maybe Blitzø just... didn't know what to say, he'd thought. Maybe Stolas had pushed too far, or... not pushed far enough? If he could just see him, he'd thought. If they could just see one another face-to-face. They always communicated better in person. At least, he'd thought that they had. Maybe Stolas had been wrong about that too.

His last text sat there unanswered, right under the invitation to visit him at the hospital. A date. A time. A place (Stolas's place, it was always his place). A carefully worded request for Blitzø to join him for a glass of wine. Of course, the time was a quarter of an hour ago. It was fine, he reassured himself. Perhaps Blitzø was simply busy. He'd gotten held up. Surely that was all it was.

Stolas sighed heavily and poured another glass of red wine. He was going to need another bottle...

[tropicalisima]

Finally I managed to snatch an invitation for insanejournal! I always wanted to try that site and it was so hard to get an invitation code 😪... But I am UNSTOPPABLE!!! I even have the kazutora username yeehaw! I can finally move on from dreamwidth. This year I want to make more personal fun websites/blogs and spend less time on tumblr. I also want to start drawing again danggit. Let's see if I succeed, my friends ✌😩

[sanguinarysanguinity]

If I wanted to could I import my Tumblr blog over to dreamwidth?

No, not currently. From the Dreamwidth FAQ on importing a journal:

At the moment you can import your personal journal to Dreamwidth Studios from LiveJournal or InsaneJournal, and we're hoping to add more sites in the future.

I have no info on what other sites they're considering, nor when they're likely to be added. I will say that those kinds of improvements happen very slowly. Because Dreamwidth doesn't take venture capital money nor ad money, they have a very small paid staff, and improvements to the code base happen slowly, over the course of years. Lately all the dev effort has been put into updating DW's twenty-five year-old codebase from its original LiveJournal roots; I suppose it's possible that when that's done it'll be easier to import from other sites, but I really don't know.

[setsuntamew]

so apparently my InsaneJournal was deleted + purged for inactivity at one point????

I kind of would like another, but now it's invite only to get one :T So if anyone has an invite code, I'd be super appreciative ;w; Thank you!!!

[bisexualbaker]

If you have the time, I strongly recommend Fanlore's page on LiveJournal/LJ, but I'll do my best to summarize!

LiveJournal/LJ is a blogging and social media platform that was heavily used by fandom prior to about 2009. (That's where the short answer would end.) LJ was considered by many the "home of fandom" before to Tumblr, and was indeed home to many thriving fandom communities and individual blogs. You followed blogs by adding them to your "Friends List" (often abbreviated as "flist"); adding someone to your flist would also grant them access to any "friends locked" posts (only visible to people on your friends list).

Many fans posted their fics to their personal journals, then simultaneously to various fandom and/or fic communities; this was called cross-posting. A lot of fans would also post their fics to FF.net, since fandom's heyday on LJ pre-dated AO3.

Speaking of AO3, LJ is partly the reason that the Archive exists. As the years went on, LJ was facing increased censorship and pressure to limit content from outside groups, such as advertisers and moral panic groups like the "Warriors for Innocence" (IIRC were also responsible for FF.net limiting explicit sexual content?). After LJ purged a huge number of fics and communities that the moral brigade found questionable (for things such as featuring fics with student/teacher relationships and gay fics in general, but also rape and incest survivor communities, while leaving pro-anorexia communities untouched), AO3 was proposed and started by a number of "Big Name Fans" (BNFs). The idea was that, because fans would own the servers and the website (the "Our Own" part of Archive of Our Own), it would be up to us what was acceptable content or not, what or whether to warn for things, etc.

For a better understanding of that history, I recommend Fanlore's Timeline of Fandom on LiveJournal page, particularly the Wanks and Other Dramatic Events section.

LiveJournal's structure involved user icons (three, and then later six and fifteen for free users, more for paid accounts), which were very popular. They were used similarly to reaction gifs on Tumblr, but were limited to 100x100 pixels. There were whole communities dedicated to creating and sharing icons, or even just showing them off.

You could select which icon to use for any given post you made, which could then set the tone for the post itself. For example, some people had specific icons they would use any time they posted a fic, or any time they talked about their job, or they would have fandom-specific icons. You could also select an icon to use when replying to a post or a comment. Commenting structure is similar to how it's set up on AO3, with the major difference being the ability to change user icons. (Or rather, commenting structure on AO3 is similar to LJ's.)

If you're familiar with Dreamwidth, InsaneJournal, Journalfen, Deadjournal, Greatestjournal, or similar, they are or were based on LJ's code; if you've spent any amount of time on most of those sites, you'll have a decent idea of how LJ works. It takes more work to post and navigate than Tumblr, but shitposts and memes did still happen there.

As far as a lot of the internet is concerned, Tumblr included, LJ is yesterday's news. A good chunk of current fandom spent formative years there, though, and considerably more of them than I expected ended up on Tumblr.

I hope that helped! If you have any questions about any of it, or if you want more details, let me know and I'll do my best.

You know what, let's do this.

I know there's a decent percentage of Fandom Old Guard who are over here these days, but it can't be all of us. I want to know how useful a comparison it would be.

Like to numbers, reblog to sample size.

[sobrevivencia-twd]

does anyone have an invitation code for insanejournal?

[thebadtimewolf]

its gonna take 6ever uploading and then copying the html and then readding all of that code into dreamwidth since they lack the upload from computer files option so one can select all the images under the space limit per post but, right so. much. better. than the button being there for insanejournal but its broken and hasnt been fixed since 2010 when i made an account there only to delete it because of said broken button.

free free from the clown portion in s02e01 of i hate suzie

[rpclefairy]

hi! are you still in search of an insanejournal invite code bc i think i might be able to get you one.

most definitely! i've been looking for an invite for years rip😭

[acatnamedturtle]

Finding Hope

It's hard to fathom that it's been over twenty since I created my first of many journals on LiveJournal. There, I was able to connect with those who shared my varied interests, participate in the various fandoms before it was popular to do so, make some amazing lifelong online friends, and truthfully, express myself in ways that I seemingly couldn't in my everyday life. I expanded my self-taught knowledge of online coding, learned how to make icons - about the extent of my graphic artist capabilities, and learned that I wasn't a defective human being.

I know, something that most people aren't.

At 19 though, I didn't fully appreciate that.

Now, twenty-two or so years later, I'm finding that I really miss that ability to connect with people through writing online and just being somewhat anonymous. LiveJournal is still around, as are other sites running the same basic kind of software like InsaneJournal and DreamWidth, but there's disadvantages there. LiveJournal is more Russian based now that it's owned by Russia, and it doesn't have that same feeling as it used to. I checked out one of my old journals - yes, I can still access it surprisingly - but the site in general just doesn't...feel right. Plus, honestly, the rise of Facebook and Twitter kindof killed those online journal social media sites.

So I find myself here, at WordPress and Tumblr, as I need to find that safe space to unload the various thoughts in my head and just ... connect with people again. My life has been in upheaval for a number of reasons, and it's just feeling so overwhelming and somewhat hopeless again. Being anonymous is so freeing. That disconnect from my everyday life where I don't feel judged on what I'm thinking or doing, even if those in my life aren't actually judging me and it's just my brain talking.

[mustbepop-promo]

WE'VE MOVED

Our residency at LiveJournal has come to a close. We are now located at InsaneJournal! Come check us out. If you want to join but don't have a code, we can help with that.

[blindingechoes]

I really need SFS to come back online soon, man, I wanted to redo all my TS2 defaults before getting fully back into the game, but like that’s not happening lol. Because I’m already in love with this first gen, although I’m not in love with where they live. I kinda wanted to start in a small custom hood, but instead they’re in Belladonna Cove. Maybe I’ll extract them and move them to a new save or something, I dunno. Also in other news “Sims 2 is the most alpha game to have ever alpha’d” is a thing I just said to my best friend, so there’s that. How’s you’re night going?

[copperbadge]

Hi Sam! I saw a post mentioning that Russia might disconnect from the global web and we'll lose LJ. I was wondering if you know of any backups of the old Dungeons journals/community? It's been one of my comfort fics for a while and I'm sad about the possibility of losing it.

Man, I can't imagine what it must be like to be in Russia or Ukraine right now. Just the surreality of the clash between normal life and this terrifying totalitarianism descending. Incredibly scary and my heart goes out to the people of both countries. I feel like in the sudden scare of "we might lose LJ" it's important to remember that there are people who are losing a lot more, before I step into this discussion.

I've seen a lot of posts about methodologies for getting stuff off LJ. Not to be an asshole about it, but the best way to do this would be to have been doing it for the last five years. I know that's not helpful, I just want to remind folks that if you love something online, or if you use it as a resource, save it now. Do not wait for emergencies. If you own it, export it to a more stable platform; if you don't, archive it. If you start saving what you love now, while it's not in danger, you can do it in small chunks. It's a lot, I know, but it's a lot that is absolutely a lot MORE when you have a deadline.

(Related to this, would anyone be interested in me running a National Clean Your Home month style event but for digital? National Save Your Shit month, or "Nasa Yoshi", could be done, but it'd have to wait until at least April because I am on my last spoon just now.)

I just googled and it looks like we archived a LOT of the RP on Insanejournal, so there is a backup of Dungeons (which may or may not be complete, I honestly don't recall) here. (Dungeons, for reference, is a Harry Potter RP I was in ages ago. I think much of it might be archived at Dreamwidth too, you might check our usernames there as well).

One last caveat -- if you are archiving something that doesn't belong to you, lock that up. You don't know what the author's wishes are, and you don't want to get accused of plagiarism, so if you've got a fic or a site or a page that you want to save, save it privately.

Ok here we go.

1. Import from LJ to Dreamwidth. Apparently the queue for that is very long right now because it's a popular choice. It's what I did when I migrated to DW as my primary platform and it works very well, but also you have to be the owner of the LJ -- you have to give DW the username and password so it can access the LJ account. Not useful for you since you want to save off Dungeons content, which presumably you don't have passwords for. Also if you are going to be using Dreamwidth, throw them some money if you at all can, they were not prepared for this level of traffic.

ETA per @fraterrisus, thank you: “I love Dreamwidth, but before people go running there to save their LJs, keep in mind that not only is DW under really heavy load right now, they've been having a bunch of problems with LJ blocking their importer code, so there's no guarantee it will even work. Check out @dreamwidth on Twitter or read the staff's posts about this on DW for more info.”

2. There are probably programs, or will be soon, that can crawl through a livejournal and save everything off to your hard drive. These used to exist but because I moved off LJ so long ago I don't have any references for where they are, and they tend to be somewhat complicated to use if you're not familiar with programming languages, plus it's hard to know who to trust when half of Github is very earnestly trying to help and the other half is malware. If you'd like to try and find a program that will download an LJ that you don't own, I'd keep an eye on the Livejournal tag on tumblr. Readers, feel free to drop links into comments or reblogs; readers, also be very wary of what links you follow.

ETA thank you @hinerdsitscat for the reminder, this is possibly shady as fuck, but https://www.blogbooker.com/ is what we used to use years ago after strikethrough and similar. I can’t promise it is safe or effective but it used to work great.

3. Save off what you love manually. You can go to any LJ page, expand all the comments you want to save, right click and save-as. Your browser should save the entire page as an html file and a folder on your hard drive; the HTML stores the text, the folder stores the images. I don't believe it saves collapsed comments, so make sure any comments you want to save are expanded.

4. I'm sure there are other options I'm missing but I can't think of any so readers, feel free to drop other options in comments. In the meantime let's go to my option of choice: Evernote, or a similar program. Evernote is a cloud-based notebook, like OneNote if you use Microsoft suite, or like Googledocs if Googledocs allowed you to save web content without copy-paste.

Evernote has a webclipper widget that installs on your browser. Go to any page you want to save, click the elephant head webclipper button, and it will save a copy, like a googledoc, to your Evernote account. Only want to save part of the page? Highlight the part, click the elephant head, and choose "save selection". You can add tags and summaries when you clip, or you can do it later. Evernote can even be trained to intuitively tag stuff (like if you've saved off 30 fics tagged Steve/Tony, and you save a 31st, it will suggest "steve/tony" as a tag since you tagged similar documents that in the past).

Evernote has an app which is limited to two devices per username, but you don't have to use the app; you can just use the website to access the documents you have saved. The upside of the app is that it will save a backup of your cloud archive to your computer (the app is also mandatory for accessing evernote on your phone, but if you can avoid doing all this on your phone you absolutely should, what a nightmare). I did a tutorial about evernote years ago; I'm not sure it would be helpful at this point, since it's undergone a lot of changes since then, but it's relatively intuitive to use.

Evernote is not the most efficient way to save off an entire archive, but if there's stuff you especially love and worry about losing, it's probably one of the easier options. Get in, get that stuff, and concern yourself with the rest later. It can save art as well as text, and it's fully searchable. I have basically built myself a second, private AO3 of just the stories I enjoy using Evernote, and I also keep informative tumblr posts and fanart there.

Also, if stuff has gone missing, try entering the url into archive.org's wayback machine and accessing it that way. In addition, if you know the title, username, or a unique phrase from the fic or page, try googling it in quotes; a lot of people have migrated stuff all over.

Good luck, guys.

[kawaii-lau]

Wheel of Dreams ❀

✽ Simple Window-inspired Club Code ✽ 3+ Text Boxes with Headers ✽ Non-Responsive :( ✽ Easy Changeable CSS ✽ Gradient Headers Do not steal / Do not redistribute / Like/Reblog if you’re using ♡ INSANEJOURNAL: Link ✽ Credits - Images: Pinterest, Google Images - FC: Alex Lawther - Header: No. 7 Font

[orphanedwitch]

ugh it's honestly so annoying that you have to have a code or pay to sign up for insanejournal