Goodbye friends page, hello friends!

[bnewman]

In all likelihood I will never look at http://orawnzva.livejournal.com/friends again.

DON'T PANIC, it's not because I don't love you! It's because I've lately discovered that my RSS reader, Vienna, being browser-based, authenticates to livejournal.com using a magic cookie just like any other web-browser, and thus I can pull down all the LJ that's fit for me to read as RSS. This completely obsoletes my previous system for keeping track of which LJ posts I have and have not read.

As part of the migration process, I have made some minor adjustments to the set of journals I read and to my friends list (note that there is now no essential link between these two sets). I make very few locked entries, and the main consideration when adjusting which information pipes I'm subscribed to is my time and sanity, so, as far as I'm concerned, these adjustments are of relatively small social weight. However, if it is for whatever reason important to you whether or not (a) I keep track of what's going on with you or (b) you have access to my occasional more personal musings, I will gladly take that into consideration.

note: I've been using a DefaultView custom friends group to filter my friends page, and I will, at least for the time being, continue to keep it synchronized with the set of livejournals I am actually reading, so you can check whether or not I am reading your journal by looking for your own entries on my friends page.

Comments

[mneme]

V. cool.

The big question, though, is whether there's a similarly convenient system for keeping track of comments (well, aside from adding every lj post you are interested in comments on to an RSS feed, that is).

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

I have LJ set up to email me when people comment on my posts or reply to my comments. I could also use the LJ notification system to keep track of comments to other people's posts if I find them especially attention-worthy.

One major change, though, is that just looking at a post in my RSS reader, I will not see the comments or even how many there are — this will get me out of the bad habit of deciding whether or not I want to comment on a post, or read the comments, based on the number of comments already made (as opposed to determining this based solely on the content of the post).

[batshua]

One major change, though, is that just looking at a post in my RSS reader, I will not see the comments or even how many there are — this will get me out of the bad habit of deciding whether or not I want to comment on a post, or read the comments, based on the number of comments already made (as opposed to determining this based solely on the content of the post).

The downside for ME, of course, is discovering this causes me to compulsively click on any interesting entry to see what others might have had to share.

[crystalpyramid]

Orange is friendly now? (: