I’m trying to use a third-party RSS reader for my Friends page feeds, as well as all the other feeds I read in a day (really, there are only a couple hundred….) and what I find is that ’s most recent entries only show the title, while ’s appear with the title and the whole post. I use these two examples because they both had protected posts today (I’m using the “auth” flag to login and download their posts in my RSS reader). When I subscribed to both feeds (actually, all my friends’ feeds), I used the atom URL provided by LiveJournal.
Anyone know why this might be? I’m wondering if it’s just a matter of updating all the feeds for the first time, that the client hasn’t finished doing that or something.
The client in question is endo for Mac OSX.
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It’s an option you can set on LJ using the Admin Console; you can’t disable feed access to your journal but you can limit it to just titles with a console command. probably did that.
Oh, cool. Thank you– I thought maybe something was broken in my client!
Okay I am so non technical….what did all this mean in layman’s terms….if you don’t mind.
Well, you know how you currently read all your friends’ LiveJournal posts in one page, right?
Well, there’s something called RSS that lets you also add other web site content to your Friends page. For instance, on mine, I have subscribed to which is the RSS feed for posts made to Wil Wheaton’s blog (Wheaton played Wes Crusher on Star Trek, but is also a really cool nerd.) The little orange rays icon is the universal sign for “RSS feed,” (there’s also an older icon that’s the letters RSS or XML in an orange rectangle) so if you see one of those icons in your favorite website, you know you can get updates delivered to your LiveJournal Friends page if you want to. To do this, go to http://www.livejournal.com/syn and either add the feeds you’re interested in from that page, or enter the URL in the “Add a feed” box. With the exception of LiveJournal, the orange icon on the website that you want to get is always linked to the feed URL, which is usually slightly different from the main, human-readable URL.
For instance, your LiveJournal page is http://jencottrell.livejournal.com/ but your LiveJournal feed is at http://jencottrell.livejournal.com/data/rss.
You can also, however, get any of these feeds delivered to a third-party application (a separate stand-alone application). Or you can get them delivered to your web browser not in a page, but in your web browser’s RSS reader (not all browsers have this feature).
My comment that I was using “auth” to login and read posts is because if you use the “auth” flag, you can enter your password into the third party reader and be able to get protected posts as well as public ones. Otherwiss, someone just subscribing to /data/rss will only see your public posts. I was asking some of my clever LiveJournal friends why some of my friends’ posts were showing up completely, and some weren’t. Apparently, there’s a way to make it so your LiveJournal feed only sends out the subject line of your posts. Why would someone want that? Well, is on the LJ Abuse team, for instance, and she therefore gets harassed or insulted on a near daily basis, for example.
I’ve recently decided to read my RSS feeds in a third-party client, because scrolling back five pages and also hitting three different other pages for updates was getting old, fast. Now I have a program that goes out and gets everyone’s posts and lets me read them without needing the web browser.
Also, if you’d like to know what other RSS Feeds I have on LiveJournal, here they are (I just added about half of these):
(defunct)
(defunct)
(blog about my book)
(my videoblog)
(audioblog about books)
(tiny cell phone videos)
WOW!!
I’m impressed!!!
I most certainly have not set that flag/function/bit/etc… did not even know it existed. Of course, sometimes I even forget LJ exists…
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