...and lest anyone criticise me for not reading FAQ #149 ( http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=149 ), the information about OPML wasn't there before. :) (one of the faqedit people sneaked it in just now and tried to fool me in IRC that it was already there. ;p)
But hey, this sort of documentation is great. :D - Sophie. On 1/19/09, Sophie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Regarding OPML, I should point out that LiveJournal already has such a > functionality, though it's probably very much in the 'so undocumented > not even staff knows it exists' category (but don't quote me on that). > > You can generate an OPML file of your friends list by going to > http://www.livejournal.com/tools/opml.bml . :) > > > - Sophie. > > > On 1/19/09, Philip Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:02, Denise Paolucci <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 18, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Charmian wrote: > > > > > > > >> Also, on LJ, creating an RSS feed is a paid-user only feature. On > > >> Dreamwidth, will it also be paid users only? > > > > > > > > -- Everyone on Dreamwidth will be able to create syndicated accounts. > > > We may have to revisit this later (or, more reasonably, turn down the > > > rate at which we check the feeds for updates) for performance > > > reasons, but we hope we won't have to. > > > > > > Hmm... I remember when LiveJournal started implementing syndicated > > accounts, there was a points system where you could only add "x" > > points' worth of syndicated accounts to your friends list, where > > popular accounts where cheaper and ones that only you (or only a > > couple of people) watched were the most "expensive", to control the > > number of feeds that existed at once -- and I think this was done to > > control the bandwidth (and/or CPU load?). > > > > So I wouldn't underestimate the effects of lots of syndicated feeds -- > > particularly if you're planning on creating dozens of them at a time > > as a matter of course, each time you import a journal from another > > site. > > > > (But I don't have any numbers.) > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > Philip Newton <[email protected]> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dw-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
