syndicated feed of DW account on LJ, help?

[kristalyn]

This is probably not exactly what this community is meant for.

I would like to set up a syndicated feed of my DW account on LJ, but apparently creating feeds requires having a paid account these days. Unfortunately no one I know has one. If anyone here has a paid account on LJ, would they be willing to do this for me? As far as I know, it won't have any negative consequences; you can create as many feeds as you want. If all else fails, I'll pay the $5 for two months of paid time, but I'd rather not give them any more of my money.

Comments

[sorchasilver]

Like this?

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/dw_kristalyn/

I've never made a syndicated feed before, so not sure!

[kristalyn]

Yes, exactly like that! Thank you so much ♥

[sorchasilver]

You're welcome! I'm glad it worked. *g*

[aedifica]

Out of curiosity, why do a feed instead of crossposting?

[kristalyn]

If I was crossposting, I would disable comments on the LJ entries, so the net result is the same.

Mostly it's because I haven't been active on LJ for almost a year and I don't feel the journals over there are a good representation of me anymore. I'd rather delete them and start over again here.

[aedifica]

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!

feed vs crossposting

[piranha]

unfortunately the net result isn't _quite_ the same. because LJ doesn't allow any ownership of feeds, and also doesn't turn off the comments, people are free to comment on your feed account on LJ (many do, not knowing that one doesn't receive the comments), and you'll have no option to turn off the comments, nor to have them emailed to you.

if you crosspost from DW, you can do either.

Re: feed vs crossposting

[kristalyn]

Ah, you are completely correct, and that reminded me that I wanted to set up my feed so that it only displays the entry title and a link. I've already warned my flist that I'm not checking the feed for comments though.

I really really don't want to crosspost. I know this probably sounds like I'm just being dramatic, but if I can reduce my cognitive load from know I have several blogs to knowing I have only one, I will.

Re: feed vs crossposting

[piranha]

no, it doesn't sound dramatic at all. i completely understand not wanting to crosspost; i wouldn't do it either if my flist weren't ornery and needed some time to adapt. i'll stop doing it by launch.

i just wanted you to know all the options and drawbacks. :)

[ex_dementia170]

That's interesting. I would like to set up a feed as well. Because I don't wanna cross-post my entries (a few of my LJ friends are on DW, so I don't wanna duplicate)... I'd wanna set up a feed, so if people wanted to read/comment, they'd hafta come here...

now here's my question about feeds... now if I set up a feed on LJ, how does the security thing work? I mean if I keep my posts access only here, and someone from LJ subscribes to my feed, d they only see the public stuff? Or can they sign in with an open id and I give them access or...

I'm braindead today and wanna know how it all works.

[kristalyn]

It goes like this:

* Your friends set up their LJ OpenID up here on DW.
* When DW reroutes them to LJ to confirm their identity, they hit the "Yes; Always." button.
* You add their OpenID to your circle and whatever filters you want them on.
* When they check the feed (through whichever means), they will also see the locked entries they have access to.

[ex_dementia170]

Perfect. Thank you. That's how I'll explain it it over on LJ. I'm still a n00b, so I'm still trying to figure how to grant access to certain Open IDs and all that...

Thanks again :)

[kristalyn]

No problem at all :) It took me quite some time to figure it out as well.

ETA: The profile page of an OpenID looks exactly the same as that of a regular user, if I'm not mistaken, so you grant them access the same way as everyone else.

Authenticating feeds

[cesy]

Surely this only works if they check the feed in a feedreader, not if they look at the LJ syndicated feed?

Re: Authenticating feeds

[kristalyn]

Oh god, you are right. *smaks self* I only checked in a feedreader and forgot that LJ doesn't work exactly like that.

Maybe this is something that DW will also work on in the future? I do seem to remember they're at least going to implement something that will allow you to read flocked entries from your friends on LJ on your DW reading page.

read flocked entries from your LJ friends on your DW reading page

[piranha]

yes; that is in fact being worked on.

but that won't necessarily help people who stay on LJ, since LJ has so far showed no interest in ever taking somebody else's code and incorporating it (which, in this case, would be a major undertaking because of the access/subscribe split).

Re: read flocked entries from your LJ friends on your DW reading page

[ex_dementia170]

Okay, I misunderstood how one makes a feed. How do I turn my DW into a feed that my friends can see on their f-list?

And maybe I'm misunderstanding some more but if I understand this right, if I set up the DW feed, people on my flist can see my new public entries, and if they click to see those, and want to comment, they can user their DW open id, at which point they can see any access only stuff, am I correct?

Re: RSS feeds and security

[kristalyn]

To make a feed, enter this url at the bottom of this page.

Yes, I think that's right.

Re: RSS feeds and security

[ex_dementia170]

Thank you so much!!!

RSS feeds and security

[piranha]

if they don't sign in with openID, or you haven't given them access, then yes, they only see your public entries, since RSS feeds only contain those.

Re: RSS feeds and security

[ex_dementia170]

Okay, thank you for explaining that. I didn't wanna make it TOO easy for them, LOL

If they choose t stay on LJ, sure, they'll only seethe public entries.. but it takes, what, a minute tops to create a DW openID?