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lj tag icon for rss feeds
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Add a new tag and icon for rss feed journals.
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There's the blah tag that puts up something like
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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.
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
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2) Of course. Forgot about that. :-)
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there are too many communities and such that look official but aren't.
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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 ( ... )
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