Open Diary has finally died. Frankly, it took way the hell too long for it to die. Extending its life for that extra month did nothing to rid it of the disease and excrement that had managed to infect its system in the latter months of its life. Was it worth prolonging that kind of agony?. i don't think it was. I am glad to see it gone and I would not be upset if it stayed dead and never resurfaced again.
Towards the end of its life, I had grown tired of the all the dumb, mindless entries that had plagued the site on a consistent, daily basis. The mindless entries to which I am referring were essentially advertisements for services that I had considered to be useless. I was never in the market to buy e-mail addresses, PayPal accounts, the services of spellcasters promising lottery victories or the return of lost lovers, or whatever bullshit was being peddled on the site. I wouldn't have given any of those motherfuckers a dime.
Fuck all that.
Additionally, I don't know who thought it was a brilliant idea to fill those entries with what looked like hundreds and hundreds of emojis, but all those emojis did was let readers know that the contents of those entries was stupid and not worth the effort of reading.
I didn't use the Prosebox import tool to save my entries from Open Diary. Instead, I used the web scraping tool that another Prosebox user here had suggested, a tool specific to the Google Chrome browser apparently and to my surprise, that scraper tool worked quite nicely. It didn't take long and when it was said and done, all those years of entries would fit nicely into a 2,149-page Microsoft Word document. I didn't time how long this entire process took, but I do recall that it really take that long. If I had to guess, it didn't take more than 30 minutes. As of this writing, I haven't sifted through that massive Word document. That's over 2,000 pages. Yeah, that might take a minute or two to go through. I might need some time to take a look and see what exactly is in there. I'll get to it at some point.
Of course, I'd hate to let all those entries go to waste. I need to figure out what to do with all that text, all those emotions, all that nonsense. That took a lot of time and effort to write all that stuff and I would hate to just go and erase it all.
In due time, I'll figure it out.
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