Comments | suggestions: lj tag icon for rss feeds

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lj tag icon for rss feeds

Dec 12, 2002 11:51

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lj tag icon for rss feeds
Short, concise description of the idea
Add a new tag and icon for rss feed journals.
Full description of the idea
There's the blah tag that puts up something like

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lj-specific markup, syndication, § obsolete

Comments 15

almeda December 12 2002, 13:35:00 UTC

If this existed, I'd use it.

pumpsnail December 12 2002, 13:49:17 UTC

I'd use this too.

ruakh December 12 2002, 17:15:28 UTC

Good idea. Two notes, though: (1) "the only difference between user and comm tags is the icon displayed" is not actually quite true, which is really irritating BTW; if you try using a comm tag for a user, you'll find that the link of the actual journal doesn't work. It's irritating because shared journals use the compass (community) icon, but don't use the /community/ URL so you have to use an lj-user tag and get the wrong symbol or an lj-comm tag and get a dead link. (2) Spreading the word is no issue; it gets added to FAQ #75, people in-the-know start using it, word spreads.

captainspam December 12 2002, 21:06:11 UTC

1) Ah. Didn't actually realize the link was different for a community. I always thought I saw a /users/ link on those... huh. My mistake, I guess.

2) Of course. Forgot about that. :-)

Right. notnormalikeyou December 19 2002, 01:42:15 UTC

that's because you can use the /users/ URL on a community... just not vice versa.

I like this idea... scientaestubiqu December 12 2002, 17:56:22 UTC

I wish we could have one for shared journals as well

Re: I like this idea... jackola December 12 2002, 18:45:38 UTC

...and lj official communities.

there are too many communities and such that look official but aren't.

Re: I like this idea... eideteker December 12 2002, 21:03:44 UTC

oooh.

likey

Re: I like this idea... lyspeth December 12 2002, 21:24:54 UTC

Having all those would be kinda neat. Maybe the LJ-official could be a mini-Frank... :)

But I think you'd end up needing special URLs for all that stuff then, the way the URLs are different now for communities and users. http://www.livejournal.com/users/yourusername/ will always work, but http://www.livejournal.com/community/... will only work if a journal is a community.

If you didn't implement the same kind of thing here, so that an RSS feed or LJ official community also had a different URL, then people could to use those special tags on a regular journal or community. This might be fine for RSS since journals are all RSS-syndicated (yes?), but wouldn't be so great for LJ official communities, because
you could use misleading tags on journals, like writing or something silly like that, and the parser would turn up fine and give it a valid URL using /community ( ... )

Thread 8

etherlad April 22 2003, 12:16:45 UTC

I'd be all over this, if it were available.