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Cross-site Friends List
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Friends list that can read friends-locked entries posted on LJ-clones and other passworded places.
Full description of the idea
Because I keep getting poked to post this, I shall!While I can read my friends' Dreamwidth journals (and Insanejournals, and other journals) by adding
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There's no way to do this without support on the Dreamwidth side, because there's no way LJ can know when you're viewing your friends list on DW. It's DW itself that gets your friends page, not your browser.
It is possible to have authenticated RSS feeds where f-locked entries are exported in the feed, but that's not what you want, because if you were to put that URL into DW, then DW would follow that URL, pick up all your friends' locked entries, and publish them publicly as a syndicated feed. That would not be a good thing to do.
So, I'm sorry to say, this can't be done without DW support too. :/
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Does that make sense?
[edit: Sorry for the confusion; I thought this entry was suggesting a way for DW to get entries off of LJ, not the other way round. Yes, of course, DW's own XML-RPC interface would work, just as it does for how DW themselves are implementing it.]
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So, net benefit all around.
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The issues with authenticated RSS are creating an account owner, and there will also be update delay and system load issues -- synsuck is a relatively intensive process and likely we'd have to do authenticated feeds less often than we do 'normal' feeds.
For real-world implementation, I'd think we'd have to limit users to a certain number of authenticated feeds (like with syndication points from Back In The Day,) because each authenticated syndicated account would only be open to one person (which could also create significant load on the remote site - if 100 LJ users have $syn_account on their friends list all with a different pasword, we have to retrieve that account 100 different times, just in case some users have different content.)
I've thought about authenticated RSS a lot (since I think about LJ RSS a lot) and I just can't picture a way to do it at this
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* $10 gives you a right to read 100 protected synfeeds for a year
* and you can pay additional $10 to read another 100, also for a year
* similarly to userpics packages, your synfeeds all expire at the same time -- i.e. you cannot initially set it the way that you enjoy 200 for the first year, and then it falls back to 100
In addition to that, once your synfeeds expire, they would be automatically marked deleted, subject to further work by moveucluster. If you renewed after that, you could go and undelete some of them, limited by your new quota.
Importing feeds from OPML en masse should also be considered.
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(Though why someone would feel the need to read protected feeds on LJ if they were also technically capable of running them through their server, I do not know.)
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There actually already exists a method for someone who's not physically on LJ itself to sign in properly to an RSS reader, and have the RSS reader display locked entries, so long as the login credentials they've given are authorized to read that entry.
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