Do multiple journals in one identity make sense when you can have multiple identities? Examples each way might be good.Multiple journals aren't as useful as the ability to "subscribe to sub-journals" i.e. "friend by tag". That is, it would be cool to be able to either friend someone in general, or friend them such that only their posts with certain tags show up in your flist. (Tagging would probably have to work differently than it does for this to be socially useful because tags aren't a controlled vocabulary; or maybe tagging should be separate from this concept and it should be called something like "subjournals" or something
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I once spent a few days writing a RSS-based subscribe-by-tag system, and then accidentally deleted it.
I had completely forgotten about it before you mentioned it, and I'm glad that you bring it up -- it's what all those people with opt-in fgroups really want.
I once spent a few days writing a RSS-based subscribe-by-tag system, and then accidentally deleted it.
*cries* "O HAI I WRITED U A RSS-BASED SUBSCRIBE-BY-TAG SISTM BUT I EATED IT."
I had completely forgotten about it before you mentioned it, and I'm glad that you bring it up -- it's what all those people with opt-in fgroups really want.
Another big-philosophy question. Is building an LJ-code clone -- i.e. yet another centralized gated community application -- the most useful thing to be doing? I guess my question is, "What are you trying to achieve?"
Hmm...I could tailor a web-hosting package to the dist model. Bundle in a sub-domain name that's the same as the journal and that might solve some of the problems...
Hmm...I could tailor a web-hosting package to the dist model.
Yes! Yes, you could! Part of my vision is how to make this not merely possible, but, you know, good business sense for someone. And "hosting companies" was the obvious answer. LJDist could be yet another feature that hosting companies package and sell as part of their services. They provide it because it attracts business, and people buy it because they can.
(I'm sorry, I'm going to have to share this idea with other hosting companies, you know. :)
Ah, oops...I think I should have posted here... oh well. There's an entry after this you might want to look at. I can put together a hosting package for elsejournal. But I don't really have the time or skills to do more than donate resources, so someone else will have to do the coding.
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I had completely forgotten about it before you mentioned it, and I'm glad that you bring it up -- it's what all those people with opt-in fgroups really want.
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*cries* "O HAI I WRITED U A RSS-BASED SUBSCRIBE-BY-TAG SISTM BUT I EATED IT."
I had completely forgotten about it before you mentioned it, and I'm glad that you bring it up -- it's what all those people with opt-in fgroups really want.
Precisely!
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Because if what you want is to escape the clutches of LJ, I have an alternative, more radical proposal: an entirely federated system, like Wordpress only, you know, LJ, that plugs right into cpanel and such like, so that companies like dreamhost can offer it. Everybody gets to run his or her own server on his or her own bill for, like $7/mo. No big targets to sue any more. No centralization leading to censorship.
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Yes! Yes, you could! Part of my vision is how to make this not merely possible, but, you know, good business sense for someone. And "hosting companies" was the obvious answer. LJDist could be yet another feature that hosting companies package and sell as part of their services. They provide it because it attracts business, and people buy it because they can.
(I'm sorry, I'm going to have to share this idea with other hosting companies, you know. :)
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