solarbird | dreamwidth import is a whirlpool of insanity

I have spent a lot of time this weekend trying to get the Livejournal importer for WordPress to work against Dreamwidth and this is not a fun times adventure.

I mean, at this point, I’m definitely catching a lot of if not most of the various issues and I’ve got far enough now to get to the “oh no, everything’s fucked” state of something I don’t think I can fix, which is after about 4100 metadata retrievals Dreamwidth just silently stops handing me new lastsync data. Just goes “nah.”

Because I’ve written a brutal fucktonne of code to stop the don’t-send-me-the-same-lastsync-again-soon detector, that means I end up getting a lot of looping rather than a hard fail-out. But that’s not even particularly better. Well, okay, it is better, but it’s not good. It’s one of those “I’ve solved 500 problems and now I’m on problem 501 and I don’t think it’s on my side” developments.

(Something I didn’t figure out until I’d spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was going wrong on my side first.)

guh, my brain

ETA: OKAY SO – we get 4125 entries before we start getting repeated numbers in responses. That’s out of an uncertain number that’s definitely much higher and might be 11744. And eventually the numbers kind of stop repeating and start incrementing little bits – a second or so several several updates.

what the actual fuck

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