Yeah... I guess it's the sort of thing that'd be okay for people who delete their entries/journal at least once a year, but I'm definitely not one of those people. The only entries I've ever deleted were ones that were only up for a day or less and are predominantly ones I posted in my journal by accident when I meant to post them somewhere else, or private entries I made to test something.
LJ should've at least warned us that they would get replaced every year!
I guess that means you just need to screen cap the image instead of embedding it in the future?
I guess. I already have a screenshot of the 2018 version since I thought that was what I'd already done when I made the 2017 one, but turns out I didn't screenshot the 2017 one (since I didn't think I'd need to, and sometimes I screenshot things I don't think I need to but apparently I didn't with this).
I checked and my "LJ turns 18" one from April 2017 IS a screenshot, so that's good. And that's probably why I thought the 2017 year in review one was a screenshot.
But since there's no way to recover the 2017 image (just the numbers that were on it thanks to my decision to add those to the tags), I don't think I'll bother putting my screenshots of them in the entry for any year - I'll just put the numbers in the body of the entry and be like "if it was replaced already, here's what the stats were this year". If one of them's gonna get replaced every year, I might as well keep it consistent and have them ALL get replaced every year.
I still like LJ over DW overall - I just don't like how LJ implemented the "your <year> in LJ" feature THAT way. :\
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Yeah... I guess it's the sort of thing that'd be okay for people who delete their entries/journal at least once a year, but I'm definitely not one of those people. The only entries I've ever deleted were ones that were only up for a day or less and are predominantly ones I posted in my journal by accident when I meant to post them somewhere else, or private entries I made to test something.
LJ should've at least warned us that they would get replaced every year!
I guess that means you just need to screen cap the image instead of embedding it in the future?
I guess. I already have a screenshot of the 2018 version since I thought that was what I'd already done when I made the 2017 one, but turns out I didn't screenshot the 2017 one (since I didn't think I'd need to, and sometimes I screenshot things I don't think I need to but apparently I didn't with this).
I checked and my "LJ turns 18" one from April 2017 IS a screenshot, so that's good. And that's probably why I thought the 2017 year in review one was a screenshot.
But since there's no way to recover the 2017 image (just the numbers that were on it thanks to my decision to add those to the tags), I don't think I'll bother putting my screenshots of them in the entry for any year - I'll just put the numbers in the body of the entry and be like "if it was replaced already, here's what the stats were this year". If one of them's gonna get replaced every year, I might as well keep it consistent and have them ALL get replaced every year.
I still like LJ over DW overall - I just don't like how LJ implemented the "your <year> in LJ" feature THAT way. :\