This is a comment I have been trying to leave for damned-colonial's post, on the issues of exporting LJ comments to Dreamwidth, for the last 16 hours. It ain't working, so I'm putting it here. Before I start, I want to address something that came up in comments to her post, which will be relevant to my rambling.

"You have to also assume that they ( Read more... )

With many thanks to grimmhill:

Do not create an RSS feed and name it with a username. Doing so blocks the use of that username by its owner. Always create RSS feeds with a prefix or suffix such as "ij_stewardess" or "stewardess_rss" and so on.RSS feed names are treated just like usernames, and that creates problems ( Read more... )

I have learned how to add RSS feeds for the blogs of greatestjournal folks, insanejournal folks, etc., so they show up on my friends list at livejournal. It is so easy you are going to laugh.

( Let's say I want to add a feed for my friend telesilla at insanejournal. )

Hey folks! The code to keep your LJ entries out of blog aggregation services is now available ( Read more... )