Gregarius: self hosted, web based RSS/RDF/ATOM aggregator

[foxfirefey]

People looking to move from LiveJournal to self hosted solutions might really like a program called Gregarius to duplicate your friends list.

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[ex_shattered767]

Does it support entry tags?

[troworld]

You can tag the aggregated entries in it, but I don't know if it displays lj's tags.

[ex_shattered767]

The feedreader I currently use supports LJ's entry tags, adding a little plus sign next to any feed "name" that is utilizing them, and to display the tags list you just click the plus.

[foxfirefey]

Huh! Well, if the tags actually come in through the feed, then there should be a way to get Gregarius to use them, even if it involves some coding.

[troworld]

I've been using it for many months mostly for keeping track of web comics. I don't have too many complaints about it. Sometimes it screws up the unread count, but that may be a side effect of me having it upgraded so many times. I kinda wish it would automatically purge feeds too.

[foxfirefey]

Automatically purge how?

[troworld]

If you go to admin > items, you can tell it to purge items older than x days. I wish it would remember my choice and perform the purge automatically without me having to do tit manually through that page every time.

[foxfirefey]

Aaah, here I was thinking it was automatic. I'm sure that functionality could be added somehow!

[chasethestars]

...using ?auth=digest (Which you can keep private, so their friended entries don't end up publicly displayed to the web!)

The word that concerns me here is can. Does that mean you have the choice of the feed being private or public, meaning that if someone doesn't select private, anyone can have access to the friends-only entries on their aggregated friends page? I don't typically FO posts, but I imagine a lot of people who do might freak out over this (if they found out about it).

[foxfirefey]

If you use that format, it will automatically set the feed to private, so in order for it to end up public, someone'd have to make the feed public on purpose.

I don't typically FO posts, but I imagine a lot of people who do might freak out over this (if they found out about it).

Well, they can't disable syndication and none of the previous protests garnered them anything beyond synlevel...which isn't documented in the FAQs, so I guess they're a bit out of luck on this one. They'll have to ask their friends not to use external feed readers or defriend them or put them on a filter and maybe set synlevel to title only or something.

[adudeabides]

Yes, that is how it works.

[troworld]

The wiki entry says "Gregarius will mark the feed as 'private'". So I assume it happens automatically and only the logged-in user can see it. But, yes, you totally could make it public and have google bot index everything. Then again, you could do this already by writing a simple script that publishes the contents of a ?auth=digest feed onto a web page.