LJ read-by-security-level feature
Reasons to read the_lj_herald #XXVII
the_lj_herald: News Flash: upcoming changes and staff changes:Users will be be able to filter their entries according to their security settings by appending security/friends, security/public, security/friends or security/group:customgroupname to their journal URLs. Style System 1 users will see filtered pages in the style that is used to display their tag pages and not in their own styles. This new feature may or may not be available to all users.
Expanded on by the volunteer who wrote the code, ciaran_h in the comments: As the maker of the security filtering patch, I'd like to give you a bit more info...
You'll actually be able to filter by adding /security/public, /security/friends, /security/private, or /security/group:customgroupname to the URL, in the same way as you can something similar with tags.
I can't say for sure because ultimately it's up to LJ how this will be implemented, but I believe that it's going to be restricted so that either the user viewing the journal or the journal owner themselves will need a Paid+ account. In other words, if you have a Paid account, anybody, both free and paid, will be able to filter your journal, and Paid users and above will be able to filter anybody else's journal. Free users will probably not be able to filter their own journal, and nor will they be able to filter anybody who's not Paid+.
Again, though, this isn't official in any way. To know for sure would require access to their config, and if I had that I would probably be under NDA so I couldn't give any info to you about it anyway. :) Just to let you know, though.
Has to be said, especially as I'm planning on re-exporting soon, theis'll be a great feature, finding all your locked posts quickly will be very useful.
Reminder: The Herald is run by a bunch of non-staff anonymously (I think I can name one of the eds, but I'm not going to), and tracks a huge number of sources to round up any significant announcements in a nice friendly format. Definitely worth reading, especiallyif you don't follow any other LJ comms.
the_lj_herald: News Flash: upcoming changes and staff changes:Users will be be able to filter their entries according to their security settings by appending security/friends, security/public, security/friends or security/group:customgroupname to their journal URLs. Style System 1 users will see filtered pages in the style that is used to display their tag pages and not in their own styles. This new feature may or may not be available to all users.
Expanded on by the volunteer who wrote the code, ciaran_h in the comments: As the maker of the security filtering patch, I'd like to give you a bit more info...
You'll actually be able to filter by adding /security/public, /security/friends, /security/private, or /security/group:customgroupname to the URL, in the same way as you can something similar with tags.
I can't say for sure because ultimately it's up to LJ how this will be implemented, but I believe that it's going to be restricted so that either the user viewing the journal or the journal owner themselves will need a Paid+ account. In other words, if you have a Paid account, anybody, both free and paid, will be able to filter your journal, and Paid users and above will be able to filter anybody else's journal. Free users will probably not be able to filter their own journal, and nor will they be able to filter anybody who's not Paid+.
Again, though, this isn't official in any way. To know for sure would require access to their config, and if I had that I would probably be under NDA so I couldn't give any info to you about it anyway. :) Just to let you know, though.
Has to be said, especially as I'm planning on re-exporting soon, theis'll be a great feature, finding all your locked posts quickly will be very useful.
Reminder: The Herald is run by a bunch of non-staff anonymously (I think I can name one of the eds, but I'm not going to), and tracks a huge number of sources to round up any significant announcements in a nice friendly format. Definitely worth reading, especiallyif you don't follow any other LJ comms.