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Option to Disable RSS Feeds
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Give users the option to disable RSS feeds of their account.
Full description of the ideaLiveJournal often takes the stand that users should have full control of their content, but will not allow users to disable the RSS feeds of their journals. While making entries friends
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Part of me wants to say yes -- a user should have some level of control over their content.
Since adding this control doesn't really change the fact content can still be viewed or "syndicated" in a number of other ways, though, and the work put into it would be more than is worth because of that, I'm gonna have to say...
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I wonder if it's possible to create an option that says, "Do not let any entries that I post friends-only or private to be put on my feed." I could support something like that.
The major problem I can think of:
- if someone accidentally posts something public that they meant to post nonpublic, how quickly does the RSS feed get updated to reflect that? Given that search engines are able to index new entries *very* quickly, even if they're public for mere moments, and given that I'm not sure such entries wouldn't get cached into online RSS readers, based on my observations of a few of them, how does this correlate to how quickly the RSS feed can and should reflect that, and will be reflected throughout those readers? (Though the problem would be minimized with judicious use of minsecurity.)
(Seriously, someone more syndication-knowledgeable than me, please comment. *G*)
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I agree that it creates a false sense of security - if you don't put them in RSS feeds, your friends can still get them, through screenscraping if there's not a feed. Hell, if you're really paranoid about your feed, turn it down to titles only, and at least make people write screenscrapers, I guess.
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I'm against offering a "turn off RSS feeds" option because it gives a false sense of security. The RSS feed doesn't make any entries visible to anyone who couldn't already see and publish them, it only makes entries easier to read for people who already can read them.
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