Another journal site for the Importer

[teapotgirl]

Title:
Another journal site for the Importer

Area:
importer

Summary:
Would it be possible to add Blurty to the sites we can import entries from since it's also based on the Livejournal code?

Description:
Even though Blurty was not the first place to go during the big Livejournal exodus, a lot of people still set up journals there.

Poll #4418 Another journal site for the Importer

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 33

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Should be implemented as-is.
8 (24.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
23 (69.7%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (3.0%)

Comments

[exor674]

( technical note -- I can't check full compatibility right now because blurty seems temporarily down, but blurty's code seems very old with what I can check in the state it's in -- so I'm not sure if the importer will *work* on blurty -- my with changes is "if it's compatible" )

[denise]

Yeah, that was my note, and I almost rejected this suggestion for that very reason; Blurty hasn't been updated since IIRC 2002 or so, and that's a bit dicey. We'll need to do a lot of testing.

[exor674]

All I can check right now is the getchal part of my comapt test tool, and *that* fails, so... that's already a chunk of work to make it work on a site w/o chalresp.

[denise]

It's back up now -- want to maybe check for me?

[exor674]

( after making my test script not use challenge-response )

     SessionGenerate: FAIL
            Userpics: FAIL
              Groups: OK
                Tags: FAIL
                 Bio: FAIL
           SyncItems: OK
           GetEvents: OK
         CommentMeta: FAIL
         CommentMeta: FAIL
www.blurty.com Compatable: FAIL

So I'm saying no *g*

[denise]

Alas. Sigh.

[cheyinka]

If DeadJournal won't import, I'd really be surprised if Blurty will.

[juliet316]

What's blurty?

[denise]

It's another old LJ clone -- http://www.blurty.com, although it seems to be down right now.