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[denise]

We believe we've figured out the underlying reason why larger import jobs (300,000+ comments) are failing! Right now we're manually running a few larger jobs to verify that our current theory is correct (it's a convergence of several different factors), and if we are correct, we'll put in a quick and dirty fix so those jobs will no longer need manual intervention. In the meantime, if your account or community has more than 300,000 comments, hold off on restarting another import: we'll let you know when you can try again.

Comments

[elwendell]

And this is why I love DW. <3

[dotinthesky]

Good to hear. :-)

[rafiwinters]

I imported several years ago (successfully) but I am commenting here just to say thank you for all this hard work for us! :-)

[andrewducker]

Thank you for your work on this!

[svet_ka]

God bless for all your work and support!

[ceemage]

it's a convergence of several different factors

From my own experience in IT (ERP systems rather than journalling!), that always seems to be the way. Thanks for your persistence on this!

[profiterole_reads]

I'm very impressed by your level of communication with your users. That's a huge change from LJ.

[peaceflower]

Thank you for all the hard work. I didn't have anything to import when I moved over recently. Very happy to be here and never leaving. Happy to see more people moving over.

[graycardinal]

What boggles my mind is the concept of a journal that's generated >300K comments....

[pauses, counts on fingers]

Okay, Yuletide admin certainly, but I am clearly not traveling on DW's main highways through the infobahn....

[rifleman_lincoln]

Oh that's good news!

[zero_pixel_count]

I'm not even trying to import anything but in the spirit of IT solidarity, good work (both technical & comms).

[bikergeek]

I imported my LJ long ago, when LJ first moved their servers to Russia, but thank you for your ongoing efforts.

[lollycalifornia]

Thank you for all of your hard work, as always.

[acelightning73]

I imported all my LJ content when I first tried DW, and some of it is still here. And in this world's geopolitical situation, I'd rather not deal with anything that's based in Russia. (They censored some of my content back in the day. It was just a tiny bit too adult for Eastern European prudery.)

[honeymink]

Thank you for your ongoing efforts. I was able to import my entries and comments successfully but I have a question – I had imported entries and comments before throughout the years, yet I found that the import process starts again every time from scratch. Would it be possible to say implement some measures where you can import things that haven't been imported already but leave things that are already imported instead of overriding them (I figure that's what's happening)? Wouldn't that keep some strain off the import queue?

Strong Work

[degringolade]

As always, thank you.

But Lord!!! >300,000 comments????

I cringe at the thought. Never want to be that popular.

[thatwasjustadream]

thanks for everything you're doing! I was able to 100% port over a comm the other week including comments. Now I'm going in 1x per week to update entries/comments, but comments keep failing. We are only talking about a handful of comments but can't get them over. Same issue(s) as those trying to port over large numbers of comments?

Will hold off a few days after this one fails out and try later in the week.

[smutmods]

Thank you folks. <3

Just gonna leave this here...

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

💗

[matsushima]

Thank you for all your hard work on this!

[yourlibrarian]

Very good news!

As there are so many people doing imports right now, I hoped to signal boost this issue: polls done on LJ do not copy over. People will need to copy and paste those manually.

I realize that in most cases people won't mind losing them as the polls were done spontaneously for some personal or temporary reason. But some others were not and contain great snapshots of what a fandom or group of fans were thinking and doing at the time. So I really want to encourage people to not lose those results pages for important surveys they did.