Difference between revisions of "Syndication Wishlist"

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* http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/758796.html -- Importing RSS Feeds Into Existing LJ Acct -- be able to make posts to your LJ based on an RSS/Atom feed you attach -- see also http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/717671.html
 
* http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/758796.html -- Importing RSS Feeds Into Existing LJ Acct -- be able to make posts to your LJ based on an RSS/Atom feed you attach -- see also http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/717671.html
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:: This is something that got discussed way back when, and it's a pain. Beyond technical considerations, you'd also have to make sure that the person republishing the feed in their journal has permission to do so. Otherwise you'd have people shoving up any old feed into their journal (either by malice or incompetence) and that would end up being an abuse nightmare. The best way to do that that I could think of would be to check the author tag of the feed to see if the email address matches up to a validated email address for the journal, but that leaves a lot to be desired. Facebook notes were mentioned in the suggestion, for instance, and the feed for them doesn't contain an author email at all. IMO, this one is more trouble than it's worth. [[User:Rho|Rho]] 03:01, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
  
 
* http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/813792.html -- An RSS feed search function -- be able to search for feeds from a particular site -- see also http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/702287.html
 
* http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/813792.html -- An RSS feed search function -- be able to search for feeds from a particular site -- see also http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/702287.html
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* http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/542129.html -- Warning for Syndication comments -- A warning on the comments page for syndicated journals, to indicate that the original poster may not read the LJ feed would be helpful.
 
* http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/542129.html -- Warning for Syndication comments -- A warning on the comments page for syndicated journals, to indicate that the original poster may not read the LJ feed would be helpful.
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:: One thing that was discussed WRT syndication and comments was the following possibility: check the feed to see if a comments URL is provided. If it is, disable comments on LJ and link to the off-site comments section instead. Not sure how this would work from a technical standpoint, but I think this is the best solution from a social perspective. It would allow the content owners to keep their comments all in one place (which they want) while allowing DW users to keep having places to have commentversations on feeds that don't provide comments. [[User:Rho|Rho]] 03:01, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
  
 
* http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/470409.html -- Adding an option to receive syndicated posts as digests -- Users could choose to receive a single post from each of their syndicated-feed friends every 24 hours. These single posts would be the consolidated posts from those feeds.
 
* http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/470409.html -- Adding an option to receive syndicated posts as digests -- Users could choose to receive a single post from each of their syndicated-feed friends every 24 hours. These single posts would be the consolidated posts from those feeds.

Revision as of 03:01, 30 July 2008

This is something that got discussed way back when, and it's a pain. Beyond technical considerations, you'd also have to make sure that the person republishing the feed in their journal has permission to do so. Otherwise you'd have people shoving up any old feed into their journal (either by malice or incompetence) and that would end up being an abuse nightmare. The best way to do that that I could think of would be to check the author tag of the feed to see if the email address matches up to a validated email address for the journal, but that leaves a lot to be desired. Facebook notes were mentioned in the suggestion, for instance, and the feed for them doesn't contain an author email at all. IMO, this one is more trouble than it's worth. Rho 03:01, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
  • http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/819479.html -- Put a "pushpin" on a syndicated account's profile to subscribe to new entries -- this would hook the syndicated accounts into ESN -- could be problematic if there is a sudden flood of the syndicated account like what happens when the feed is reset
One thing that was discussed WRT syndication and comments was the following possibility: check the feed to see if a comments URL is provided. If it is, disable comments on LJ and link to the off-site comments section instead. Not sure how this would work from a technical standpoint, but I think this is the best solution from a social perspective. It would allow the content owners to keep their comments all in one place (which they want) while allowing DW users to keep having places to have commentversations on feeds that don't provide comments. Rho 03:01, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
  • http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/470409.html -- Adding an option to receive syndicated posts as digests -- Users could choose to receive a single post from each of their syndicated-feed friends every 24 hours. These single posts would be the consolidated posts from those feeds.

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