{"id":708,"date":"2011-03-06T19:58:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T01:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=708"},"modified":"2015-01-18T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T16:00:42","slug":"own-your-social-media-install-storytlr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/708","title":{"rendered":"Own your social media–install Storytlr"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess I’m just not very trusting, because I like to have copies of my data.\u00a0 I host my own blog, rather than use blogger or wordpress.com.\u00a0 I host my own email (or at least one of my two main accounts).\u00a0 I prefer to document interesting things on my blog, rather than a site like Quora<\/a> or Stack Overflow<\/a> (though I do have an account<\/a> on the latter).\u00a0 Heck, even though I use an open ID provider, my own domain is the master, and I just delegate to myopenid.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, since I recently have been putting a bit more effort into my social media presence (you can find me on twitter here<\/a>), I looked around to find a backup solution.\u00a0 I did find one–Storytlr<\/a>–via this article on backing up your twitter feed<\/a>.\u00a0 It apparently used to be a hosted service<\/a>, but now is open source<\/a>–code here<\/a>, install instructions here<\/a>.\u00a0 (There’s at least one for pay service<\/a> too, but then, you don’t really own your data, plus I’m cheap.)<\/p>\n

It was pretty trivial to install.\u00a0 I ran into this issue<\/a> with Storytlr not recognizing that PDO was installed, but the fix (hacking the install script) worked, and I didn’t run into the Zend error also in that bug post.<\/p>\n

I also ran into an issue where I chose an admin password of less than six characters on install.\u00a0 Storytlr was happy to let me do that, but then wouldn’t let me enter the exact same password when I was logging in for the first time.\u00a0 To fix this, I had to update the password column in the users table with a new MD5 string, created using this tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, what does Storytlr actually give me?<\/p>\n