oh, interesting

[juldea]

I just learned something new about friends groups.

From the LJ FAQ: If you delete a friends group, any entries made to that group will still have the security set to "custom," but not to any particular group. The effect of this is that no one but you will be able to view these entries; even though they will not be marked private, they will effectively be private. Additionally, if you recreate the group with the same name, the entries will not automatically be set to that group again. If you would like to change the security level of the entry or set it to a new custom group, you'll have to go back and edit the entry.

Damn. That means some things I've written in the past are no longer available to people. I can't imagine going through 1,646 entries to check to see which are posted to groups that no longer exist. Argh. Although, yes, I'd only have to go through those entries which are restricted, but that's still a whole lot.

Comments

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

You want to bribe somebody with a programming clue to write something that grovels through the database looking for entries of yours with bogus friends groups and mass-reassigns them. I could probably be bribed with three beers.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, but I am a poor jobless soul with not enough money to buy myself three beers, yet alone someone for whom buying beer also includes travel money to get to them to buy the beer.

And I don't really care that much... heh