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Re: LiveJournal
The difficulty is mainly one of time and priorities. We have a
waiting list for features a mile long, many which will more
immediately effect LiveJournal's users.
It's important to realize that LiveJournal is an open source project.
Feature requests are nice, but ultimately someone has to create the
code. What LiveJournal could really use are some coders who have
experience with syndication.
My basic goals for syndication with LiveJournal are:
- to import RSS feeds so that average people can read them easily
- to export RSS feeds in both headline and in full post versions
- to allow the different systems out there running LiveJournal to
interact seamlessly. (Users on one system could add users on others
to their friends lists, etc.)
- to allow LiveJournal to interact as seamlessly as possible with
other weblog applications too.
This, of course, is just the tip of the iceberg of what can be done.
Strategically, I think that contributing code to promote these
efforts would be a great way to further the efforts of syndication.
Personally, I'm more than willing to see LiveJournal become an
example of what can be done with syndication, but we need the code.
On a personal level, I am more than willing to evangelize syndication
and external syndication projects to our users if there is coding
done that ties LiveJournal and other services closely together. If
there are any on this list who would be interested in making
LiveJournal's syndication more robust and feature-filled, I'd love to
talk to them.
The only other option really is to wait for someone, probably the
site's founder Brad, to create the code. He's a 21 year old fulltime
student who is trying to have a social life and find a girlfriend, so
I can't vouge for his available time...
Mark
LiveJournal.com
> What I'd most like to see in the short term and as a reader of
> livejournals, is full text in the <item><description>. There's an
> ongoing support request thread where it sounds like the code is
ready,
> but it's not there yet. I'm holding my breath!
>
> Extending this to communities would then be great as a way of
> syndicating a whole communities output.
>
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