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brownbetty ([personal profile] brownbetty) wrote in [community profile] getting_started2009-04-21 03:44 pm
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Reading filters?

I really like (although I know some people find the adjustment difficult) the distinction between people you read, and people you want to have access, because that is how I have always thought of friending on lju anyway, and the unfortunate conjunction was just something I had to hack around.

BUT: some of my filters on lj were reading filters so that I could have separate pages, not because I distinguish between the people who I friend, and the people I actually read, just because sometimes I wanted to catch up on my friends, and sometimes I wanted to catch up on communities, and sometimes I wanted to catch up on syndicated feeds. Like, for example, you can go to http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/friends/communities and see just the communities I'm subscribed to. (I believe.)

Is that no longer possible on DW?
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[personal profile] pne 2009-04-22 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Though that's of limited value if people on your reading list frequently make protected entries; they'd have to add all your OpenID accounts to their access lists, too.

(And I think that wouldn't work at all for members-only community entries, since AFAIK OpenID accounts can't join communities and so can't be on their access lists.)