alsuren ([info]alsuren) wrote,
@ 2007-05-06 19:58:00
Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend  Next Entry
clarification
With the arrival of a credit card advert, my faith in livejournal has finally departed.

I was expecting it to happen a lot sooner after the take-over, but maybe I just didn't notice how it was going downhill, because I never really used LJ in internet explorer until recently.

A few items of book-keeping need to be done before I really migrate which I need some help with.

1) Could someone with a paid account, please get http://alsuren.blogspot.com/atom.xml added as a livejournal feed, and tell me about it so that I tell people about it. That way, people can still get updates on their friends list when I post.

2) If anyone knows anything about blogspot, could they please tell me what they use as a friends-page equivalent? I will still check my LJ friends page, but getting all my friends in one list would certainly be nice.

(6 comments) - (Post a new comment)


[info]ravelled_ribbon
2007-05-06 09:44 pm UTC (link)
They don't really have a friends page. You either look at each friend individually or you click on friends posts which gives you the first few lines of each of the nexest x number of posts and you have to click on it to read the entire thing. It actually really irritates me, I think it's a bad system.

(Reply to this)


[info]cesy
2007-05-07 07:00 am UTC (link)
Friends-page equivalent = aKregator.

(Reply to this) (Thread)
Windows mobile based?
[info]alsuren
2007-05-07 11:06 pm UTC (link)
I'd give you a tenner if you got akregator working on windows mobile :P

An srcf-based feed reader that I could hack to use LJ cookies would be good. Otherwise, friends page has most of my friends on, so it's all good.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)
Re: Windows mobile based?
[info]crowsty
2007-05-12 03:13 pm UTC (link)
Well, presumably you could just have a "Planet My Friends" as it were, then you just have a task of choosing the planet software to use, and finding/hacking the most Windows Mobile suitable theme. Else you could use Google Reader (although I'm sure this is ruled out due to lol AJAX)/Bloglines (probably ruled out due to the excess scripting used.

I'm guessing you will want to find software that has an OPML import feature.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)
Re: Windows mobile based?
[info]alsuren
2007-05-12 04:10 pm UTC (link)
I suppose that reduces the amount of "friends" pages I need to browse down to 2...

Do you know how the akregator/livejournal locked entries thing works? I would imagine that it would be cookie based, but I will be the first to admit that I know nothing about the things, or how you would go about creating a planet with secure livejournal support.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)
Re: Windows mobile based?
[info]crowsty
2007-05-12 04:21 pm UTC (link)
Well, it has to be something cookie/session based (which you can compare to the fact facebook has a less secure RSS system, where they generate some random hash (or something along those lines) and add that to the feed. Obviously you can then distribute that however you like, and let people view your friends posts etc., even if they haven't got direct access).

I think I will be the second to admit that I don't know much about creating a Planet with secure LJ support. I'm guessing this may not be common enough, and you would have to hack together your own implementation. Keeping Cached data secure at the SRCF side shouldn't be too bad (as in you can hopefully lock it to 700 (so only the sysadmins can see it)), and then you might as well just stick the whole thing behind a raven login to protect the security of your friends posts.

Alternatively, a planet for open blogs, and using LJ for LJ might be an easier option. :)

(Reply to this) (Parent)

(6 comments) - (Post a new comment)

Create an Account
Forgot your login or password?
Login w/ OpenID
English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…