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Opt out of RSS
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An option to opt out of RSS/ATOM and any other syndication method that LJ chooses in the future
Full description of the ideaSome people aren't happy at the fact that sites like bloglines can duplicate their journal. They don't realise that this is an effect of having an RSS feed of it, and
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There's other problem. Many people read lots of popular journals with RSS reader. If someone disables RSS, he also disables access for such users.
RSS is just another form of representation (it can be even emulated with custom S2 style, actually!), so I don't see why "disable RSS" idea is anything better than, say, "disable using ?style=mine".
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Doesn't bother me, but after the third time I bumped into someone concerned their entire journal was duplicated elsewhere, I thought that it should at least open it up as a topic for discussion.
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Which means that giving people control over their RSS/Atom feeds would allow them control over whether the blog aggregation services redisplayed the content of their blogs.
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At least it did back when I looked into something along these lines.
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but only so long as it's the public that goes to livejournal.com/users/theirusername
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sorry they lose the intarnet
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