RSS feeds of LJ posts

[zing_och]

I've never created a feed, so please forgive cluelessness.

Can an RSS feed of an LJ comm somehow include the username of the person posting, or is it just the body of the post getting in?

I'm reading the sga_noticeboard through sga_noticeboard_feed. If I want to know who announced a fic there, I have to click through to the LJ entry to see their name. Can this be fixed in a feed, or do I ask the mods over there if anything can be done?

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[azurelunatic]

If it doesn't exist in the feed source itself (and I am on the point of tears right now struggling to get Google Reader to give the hell up and let me see the fucking source of the fucking feed in fucking Firefox) then it's not something that the maintainers on LJ can correct.

I know that there exists a suggestion that LJ add this capability, and either they already implemented it or they didn't; I'm trying to figure out which.

If they did, then there's nothing more to inquire about on LJ.

If they didn't, then it depends how old the suggestion is, and I'll be checking sooner or later anyway, because I run LJ suggestions. If it's more than 3 years old, it would then be time to re-suggest; if it's not, a comment in support will do, and then possibly a big-eyed look at DW devs.


Assuming they did implement it, it would then be time to talk to Dreamwidth Support and/or Dreamwidth Suggestions, to suggest/inquire about listing the username of the actual person posting, from feeds that include this information. (As a rule, "how do I...?" goes to Support, and "could we please ... ?" goes to suggestions.)


I think it's time to go find some fucking settings on my fucking browser. I remember making this setting and thinking it was an excellent one. NOW I WANT TO UNSET IT AND I CANNOT FIND THE MOTHERFUCKER, AND LO AM I FUCKING WRATHFUL.

[azurelunatic]

I located the LJ suggestion (http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/745213.html), and rb and afuna were able to help me with the poking around at feeds and Firefox.

Since the issue is already in LJ's developer bug tracking thing, there's no more you need to do on LJ's end; I have the access to comment to LJ's bug tracker to say that <lj:poster> tags are all well and good, but they're very non-standard.

The next step would then probably be Dreamwidth Suggestions, to suggest handling <lj:poster>, <author>, and <dc:creator> tags in Dreamwidth RSS feeds. (Unless someone DW-dev-shaped files a bug for it first, of course, which is also a possibility.)

[azurelunatic]

Yaaaaaay Fu is filing bugs! Thank you for pointing this out! Stuff will now happen, albeit probably slowly, and this shouldn't require any more action on your part -- someday it should just start appearing, like magic.

[falena]

This is why I love Dreamwidth. *showers all DeeWee people with love* You guys make nifty stuff happen! Before I even knew I wanted sais nifty stuff!

[zing_och]

Cool! This is awesome, and so are you! *g*

Thank you for all that work! *throws confetti*