Difference between revisions of "Syndication Wishlist"

Latest revision as of 05:21, 27 September 2013

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/885455.html - Include embed code in RSS/Atom feeds, so LJ-embedded videos (et al) behave properly in feed readers. Right now they either leave blank space or show text like 'lj-embed id="1"' instead of at least a placeholder or a link to the LJ entry.

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/912202.html - Cited as a duplication of a deferred suggestion dating back to 2004 (http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/465100.html). The desire is to have not only the ability to RSS a journal, but also the Friends and Friends-of-Friends of a given journal.

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/872391.html - better documentation of DW's ability to detect syndicated feeds when provided with a non-feed URL.

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/880489.html -- Allow RSS feed originators to disable or redirect LJ commenting on syndicated feeds originating from their sites. Some reactions were extremely negative, others were supportive. Some indication given that feed originators either already have or have threatened to block LJ from being able to syndicate their feeds if they're not given this ability.

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/880009.html -- Enable the addition of versions of syndicated feeds that automatically lj-cut all content. Counter-suggestions in comments include making this a checkable option on the Manage Friends page rather than duplicating feeds, or making a preference setting in Style management to auto-cut entries over a certain byte size.

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/861176.html -- Option to Disable RSS feeds -- not sure whether this fits with DW or not, but I know at one time it was a very important fen wish

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/860388.html -- Tag specific RSS link -- RSS feed on tag pages should link to the tag specific feed. YES PLEASE.

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/811771.html -- Feedburner -- Be able to redirect feeds through Feedburner; would probably make people who like RSS stats happy as well as reduce load on DW servers, seems like a win win

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/765250.html?format=light -- Export of RSS/Syndication Feeds into an OPML file -- already some rudimentary OPML, but is badly done. Syndicated OPML links to the LJ syndication account, not the original feed. This should be done in a better way.

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/758796.html -- Importing RSS Feeds Into Existing LJ Acct -- be able to make posts to your LJ based on an RSS/Atom feed you attach -- see also http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/717671.html

This is something that got discussed way back when, and it's a pain. Beyond technical considerations, you'd also have to make sure that the person republishing the feed in their journal has permission to do so. Otherwise you'd have people shoving up any old feed into their journal (either by malice or incompetence) and that would end up being an abuse nightmare. The best way to do that that I could think of would be to check the author tag of the feed to see if the email address matches up to a validated email address for the journal, but that leaves a lot to be desired. Facebook notes were mentioned in the suggestion, for instance, and the feed for them doesn't contain an author email at all. IMO, this one is more trouble than it's worth. Rho 03:01, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/813792.html -- An RSS feed search function -- be able to search for feeds from a particular site -- see also http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/702287.html

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/819479.html -- Put a "pushpin" on a syndicated account's profile to subscribe to new entries -- this would hook the syndicated accounts into ESN -- could be problematic if there is a sudden flood of the syndicated account like what happens when the feed is reset

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/841175.html -- Comment RSS -- a feed of the most recent comments to a journal

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/711051.html -- Increase subject length for RSS entries -- Entries shown via RSS feeds currently have their subjects truncated at 100 characters/255 bytes, whichever occurs first. This limit should be raised.

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/714766.html -- Enable tracking of errors with syndicatation account update -- Allow users to subscribe and receive a notification when an error occurs on updating a syndication account. -- See also http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/623491.html

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/716138.html -- Support "enclosure" xml tag in syndicated accounts -- this would be useful for podcasts maybe? But could also be a security risk. -- see also http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/596953.html

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/659686.html -- RSS Feed Length Edit -- let people set the number of posts in their RSS feed lower than the default of 25

Please, please, yes, please! Otherwise sources with long entries (for example, synecdochic) are never fetched because the sum of 25 entries is over the total size limit. Branchandroot

The size limit is checked before anything else. I think it is just there to prevent wasting resources retrieving synfeeds that someone may have tried to set up maliciously (i.e. "lol, let me link DW to http://my-site.com/five-gigabyte-file.bin and waste all their bandwidth and CPU time".) I don't see a reason why we can't up this to 750K or even 1M on DW, which should be enough for every legitimate RSS feed. --Gerg 18:10, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/439807.html -- LJ-cut for syndicated feeds -- maybe not as suggested, maybe an option for users to automatically LJ-cut certain accounts on their page or something?

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/450740.html -- LJ RSS fetcher should use XML::RSS::Timing -- to be polite!

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/620352.html -- Trackback on Syndicated Feed Comments -- could probably just do one trackback for the post

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/542129.html -- Warning for Syndication comments -- A warning on the comments page for syndicated journals, to indicate that the original poster may not read the LJ feed would be helpful.

One thing that was discussed WRT syndication and comments was the following possibility: check the feed to see if a comments URL is provided. If it is, disable comments on LJ and link to the off-site comments section instead. Not sure how this would work from a technical standpoint, but I think this is the best solution from a social perspective. It would allow the content owners to keep their comments all in one place (which they want) while allowing DW users to keep having places to have commentversations on feeds that don't provide comments. Rho 03:01, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/470409.html -- Adding an option to receive syndicated posts as digests -- Users could choose to receive a single post from each of their syndicated-feed friends every 24 hours. These single posts would be the consolidated posts from those feeds.

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/583625.html -- Block search engines from indexing syndicated accounts

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/620687.html and http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/476014.html -- Comment count in RSS

• Alternative to the various comment suggestions: default all feeds to not allowing comments. If the feed provides a comment url, link it. Pie in the sky addition: If, at some point, it can be wrangled, add a means to open commenting if and only if the feed source gives an address to which the comments can be sent.

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/836023.html -- "Watched by" list for syndicated accounts

Implemented or on the list to be

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/451135.html -- Give LJ RSS feeds a simple stylesheet -- Think mark already implemented this

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/824186.html -- Modify LJ-based RSS feeds to respect the lj-cut tag -- we are already doing this one, see http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/844308.html -- Display author fields on atom feeds -- for syndicated communities -- see also http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/745213.html and http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/498951.html -- maybe it already got implemented? -- http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/532673.html