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?

Comments

[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*