Feed Pickups

[firewheelvortex.livejournal.com]

If you are reading this, I'm putting this feed onto Graphictruth.com (as soon as I figure out how to do it properly). If you would like another feed - perhaps your own - please reply to this post. I will also be adding feeds off my friends list, in the cases where I KNOW for sure it's not a problem.

Please refer to my journal, firewheelvortex, for more information.

Comments

[kasiawhisper.livejournal.com]

*waves*

[ricktboy.livejournal.com]

what's a feed? I don't know much about that sort of thing.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Bob& are referring to an RSS feed, which would allow members of graphictruth.com to see posts made to multiplicity and, I think, allow them to contribute. It would anyway let them know that the community exists, and they might be interested in participating.

Learn more about RSS feeds here:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqcat=syn

This is one of those things where the membership has to tell me and Andy it is OK with them before we let anything happen. To do that, we need to know more about it ourselves, so I asked Bob& to give a brief description of what's an RSS feed, who will see it, etc.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Andy and I are now the maintainers for this community. Before putting the feed for this community on graphictruth, I'd like the members to be informed what that will mean, and see what the consensus is.

Can you post something explaining what's a feed and how this will help multiplicity? I think our membership would appreciate it.

You can put the ksol1460 journal on graphictruth now though! :)

[judiff]

this is prolly a stupid question becos i'm not a geek (well i am a geek about textiles but not computer stuff so much) but will people on graphic truth be able to only see public posts here or friends only ones as well?

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know this too. As well as that, by adding us, what does it mean? I have just the one main journal we all share, and I wouldn't feel comfortable with any of the personal stuff going up. *shudder* Probably being totally pathetic here, but it's always good to check I find.
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[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

I guess I feel that if a post was made to this com that was made friends only, I would rather only this community saw it. *nod*
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[judiff]

that's what i think too.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

No. Outsiders cannot see a locked post from a feed any more than they could see one on livejournal itself. If they're not authorized to view it, they can't. This is true for a personal journal as well as for a community.

This is why Jay wanted people who were concerned to go to the link he posted and read up on feeds, what they were, and what they can and can't do, as follows:

Protected entries are visible if the user requesting the feed is able to authenticate with LiveJournal and has permission to see the entries... (then they give instructions on how to do this)

For example, if you view your RSS feed in your browser while logged in (they mean logged into Livejournal), you will see all your most recent entries in it. However, someone who is not logged in, or someone you do not list as a friend, would not be able to see any protected entries in the feed.

[judiff]

that's cool then

[st-bastard.livejournal.com]

We're honestly not certain how we feel about this. we post to this community, needing a kind of security. Something like this, would enable other people to see the posts we make, and we're leery.

We'll think about it some more, and discuss it a bit more.

Wolf writing from
Pack Collective

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Not if you lock them to the community. It's just like locking a post on your own journal to friends only.

If your posts aren't locked to the community, anybody on the internet can see them by just coming in here and reading them.

If you respond to an unlocked post, anybody on the internet can see your response.

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=24
What it says here goes for communities as well as for your personal LJ.