Syndication Wishlist

• 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

• 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

• 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

Implemented or on the list to be

• http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/451135.html -- Give LJ RSS feeds a simple stylesheet -- Think xb95 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://www.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