Hi! liamstliam pointed me in this direction. I'm one of the Dreamwidth Support Team Leads, and I play in Northshield. :)
Dreamwidth development has been back and forth on whether this would actually be possible or not. It took a long time to get to the point where we could find an ethical way to access the data. And yes, it was made more difficult by the lack of technical documentation on LiveJournal's side. Dreamwidth tries to document stuff as much as possible; if you find something we haven't documented, please drop an email to support@dreamwidth.org and I'll do what I can to make that doc happen.
Nearly all of Dreamwidth's code is open source, so you are welcome to take a look at it. If you decide you'd like to poke around a little more in-depth, let me know and I'll put you in touch with Sophie. She takes care of our hosted development environments, which are there for you to hack on. If you have any questions at all, or even if you just want to stop in and say hello, you can do that by connecting to IRC: irc.dreamwidth.org port 6667, channel #dw or #dw_kindergarten.
Hope this helped!
Lady Katerinka Lvovicha of the Two Kingdoms aka Kat aka DW Support Guru :)
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Date: 2010-02-17 04:04 am (UTC)Dreamwidth development has been back and forth on whether this would actually be possible or not. It took a long time to get to the point where we could find an ethical way to access the data. And yes, it was made more difficult by the lack of technical documentation on LiveJournal's side. Dreamwidth tries to document stuff as much as possible; if you find something we haven't documented, please drop an email to support@dreamwidth.org and I'll do what I can to make that doc happen.
Nearly all of Dreamwidth's code is open source, so you are welcome to take a look at it. If you decide you'd like to poke around a little more in-depth, let me know and I'll put you in touch with Sophie. She takes care of our hosted development environments, which are there for you to hack on. If you have any questions at all, or even if you just want to stop in and say hello, you can do that by connecting to IRC: irc.dreamwidth.org port 6667, channel #dw or #dw_kindergarten.
Hope this helped!
Lady Katerinka Lvovicha of the Two Kingdoms aka Kat aka DW Support Guru :)