Opt out of RSS

[andrewducker]

Title
Opt out of RSS

Short, concise description of the idea
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

Comments

[rly]

Here's an even better solution than going friends only. If you don't like this core feature of LiveJournal that is highly unlikely to go away, don't use LiveJournal.

[andrewducker]

WTF?

If I think that LJ can be improved by giving people more control over the data then I should stop using it?

And since when is RSS (a relatively recent feature) _core_ to LJ?

[rly]

A feature that every user account has is a core feature.

[andrewducker]

A feature that is essential to people's day-to-day use is a core feature.

[rly]

The RSS/Atom feeds are there every day. They're even there when you're not updating.

[7rin]

Only because we can't turn them off?

[decadence1]

As is a feature that draws a person to the site and encourages them to create an account. Viz. features that are standard on other sites.

[everdred]

It's essential to my day-to-day usage. I watch a number of official LJ communities on Bloglines.

And I hate the friends page feature. It's really counter-intuitive to the way I want to read my friends' entries. I'd go RSS-only if authentication (being able to read friends-only entries for your friends via an RSS client) was supported in more clients.

[crschmidt]

RSS has been on the site since before I got an account, 2.5 years ago.

Phone posting is a recent feature. In my opinion, RSS is not.

[everdred]

It's essential to my day-to-day usage. Thanks for asking. I watch a number of official LJ communities on Bloglines.

And I hate the friends page feature. It's really counter-intuitive to the way I want to read my friends' entries. I'd go RSS-only if authentication (being able to read friends-only entries for your friends via an RSS client) was supported in more clients.