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dw_maintenance2022-03-10 04:23 pm
denise) wrote in dw_maintenance2022-03-10 04:23 pm
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As part of the current geopolitical crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, rumors are circulating that the Russian government intends to withdraw from the internet so that sites hosted inside Russia won't be accessible from outside Russia. We don't have any information about the credibility of these rumors, and I personally believe it's 50/50 odds at best that it's true, but the rumor has prompted many people from LJ to back up their journals and communities to Dreamwidth, using our content importer, in the interests of preserving access to their data if the rumors are true. Because LiveJournal is hosted inside Russia, if the rumors do turn out to be true, no one outside Russia will be able to reach it, so people are highly motivated to import their stuff right now!
As we've noted in the last few posts, LiveJournal is intermittently blocking our access to their servers, so there's a chance any import attempt might fail. Many imports are successfully finishing today, though, and we're doing everything we can to keep that success percentage high. If yours fails, you'll get a message in your Dreamwidth inbox. If you get any failure message at all, wait 30 minutes and try the import again, starting from the step it failed on.
In order to increase the chance the importer stays unlocked for as long as possible, crossposting is still shut off (there's a whole tl;dr here about why imports are more likely to succeed than crossposting, but I'm typing on my phone so you will be spared my usual earnest explanation). Please also help us reduce the risk of tripping LJ's "automated" blocks by making absolutely 100% certain the LJ password you're entering when you set up the import is the correct password for the LJ account you're importing. All of the import jobs appear to LJ like they come from Dreamwidth, not your computer, and the fewer failed logins LJ sees from us, the less often they block us.
We've temporarily increased the server resources assigned to the importer in hopes of working through the queue more quickly during periods we aren't blocked. For the next several days (or as long as we can) this may cause the site to feel a bit sluggish at times of higher usage: pages may take a tiny bit longer to load and emails may take a few extra minutes to arrive, especially during the US evening hours. (So, from about 8PM in EDT, GMT -5, to about 10PM in PDT, GMT -8.)
We will be carefully monitoring the server load, and we'll throw some more temporary resources at the problem if we need to. Please bear with us for a few days as we try our absolute best to help as many people as possible back up their data just in case!
(Welcome to all our new friends! We're glad you're here. It is usually much, much more chill than this.)
As we've noted in the last few posts, LiveJournal is intermittently blocking our access to their servers, so there's a chance any import attempt might fail. Many imports are successfully finishing today, though, and we're doing everything we can to keep that success percentage high. If yours fails, you'll get a message in your Dreamwidth inbox. If you get any failure message at all, wait 30 minutes and try the import again, starting from the step it failed on.
In order to increase the chance the importer stays unlocked for as long as possible, crossposting is still shut off (there's a whole tl;dr here about why imports are more likely to succeed than crossposting, but I'm typing on my phone so you will be spared my usual earnest explanation). Please also help us reduce the risk of tripping LJ's "automated" blocks by making absolutely 100% certain the LJ password you're entering when you set up the import is the correct password for the LJ account you're importing. All of the import jobs appear to LJ like they come from Dreamwidth, not your computer, and the fewer failed logins LJ sees from us, the less often they block us.
We've temporarily increased the server resources assigned to the importer in hopes of working through the queue more quickly during periods we aren't blocked. For the next several days (or as long as we can) this may cause the site to feel a bit sluggish at times of higher usage: pages may take a tiny bit longer to load and emails may take a few extra minutes to arrive, especially during the US evening hours. (So, from about 8PM in EDT, GMT -5, to about 10PM in PDT, GMT -8.)
We will be carefully monitoring the server load, and we'll throw some more temporary resources at the problem if we need to. Please bear with us for a few days as we try our absolute best to help as many people as possible back up their data just in case!
(Welcome to all our new friends! We're glad you're here. It is usually much, much more chill than this.)
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You're one of the few who understands the difference between the regime and tons of people who are hostages of that regime.
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(Also, fuck Rozkom. If I could make them disappear tomorrow I would!)
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+1000 really. There are SO many people protesting and being thrown in jail, and that's just the people who are risking it, I bet a lot more people in Russia disapprove of Putin in private. Probably most people.
If we'd had another four years of Trump who knows what he might have done, and I wouldn't want to be held responsible for that, I never voted for the guy, so I don't think it's fair to hold the Russian people responsible for Putin either, especially when Putin is known for murdering his opponents so it's even harder to change things over there.
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Literally "Russian Communication Overseer".
Main government censorship agency.
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They basically send in lots of reports to various social media sites outside Russia and say "this post violates Russian law, you must take it down or we will block you". And then, if you're us, you go look at the post that "violates Russian law", go "wow, that's weird, there's nothing in that post but very mild criticism of the Russian government", and delete the report Rozkom sent you, which is why Rozkom blocks, like, most of DW inside Russia and also why most people living inside Russia are very good at evading ISP-level censorship. (It's illegal inside Russia for any ISP to not apply the Rozkom blocklist.)
We eventually said fuck it and now just filter out all of Rozkom's "you have to delete this post OR ELSE" messages, because I have literally never once received one for a post that was also a violation of US law or our ToS. Being a small, independent site means that we absolutely can say "no, actually, we will not be complicit in the Russian government's censorship of its people," because we don't actually have to stay in their good graces.
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