{"id":3444,"date":"2005-07-27T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T06:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/27\/livejournal-syndication-update\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:50:02","slug":"livejournal-syndication-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/27\/livejournal-syndication-update\/","title":{"rendered":"LiveJournal Syndication Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7890,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/community\\\/syn_quest\\\/158527.html?thread=348479#t348479&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/syn-quest.livejournal.com\\\/158527.html?thread=348479&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7891,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/woody_eclectic&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051204094230\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com:80\\\/users\\\/woody_eclectic\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 02:31:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 21:10:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 19:36:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 19:36:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7892,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.feedburner.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303123326\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.feedburner.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 02:31:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 20:22:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 01:30:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 15:20:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 15:20:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7893,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBT%2526albumTerm=ESCM%26partnerId%3D30&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Allrighty then&#8230;it wasn&#8217;t the solution that I was hoping for, but I think I&#8217;ve managed to fumble my way through <em>a<\/em> solution for my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/livejournal_rea.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: LiveJournal readers: help!\">issues with the woody_eclectic LiveJournal feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/syn_quest\/158527.html?thread=348479#t348479\" title=\"qweltor's comment\">comment from qweltor<\/a>, I found out that there&#8217;s simply no way to disable comments on a LiveJournal syndication feed &#8212; they&#8217;re just on, like it or not. So, not only wouldn&#8217;t there be a way for anyone to go in and turn off the comments for the existing feed, but there wouldn&#8217;t be a point to my going in and creating a new feed account. That handily blew all of my already-conceived plans out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>So, I ended up coming up with a <em>new<\/em> plan. And I do love it when a plan comes together&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/woody_eclectic\/\" title=\"eclecticism (syndicated by LiveJournal.com)\">woody_eclectic<\/a> syndication account pulls its feed from <code>\/eclecticism\/index.rdf<\/code>, as this was where my primary feed lived at the time the account was set up. Since then, though, I&#8217;d switched over to using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/\" title=\"Feedburner\">Feedburner<\/a> service, so there really wasn&#8217;t anything <em>at<\/em> <code>\/eclecticism\/index.rdf<\/code> for LJ (or anyone else) to access. Rather, any requests for that file were being redirected over to the corresponding Feedburner feed at <code>http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Eclecticism<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>This was exactly the key that let me proceed with a relative minimum of hassle.<\/p>\n<p>I created a new RSS 2.0 template in MovableType that would output to <code>\/eclecticism\/index.rdf<\/code>, and tweaked the template to produced a specialized feed specifically for LiveJournal to syndicate. This feed carries the full content of every post (even the extended entry, something that I haven&#8217;t included in even the normal full-content feed). Additionally, there are two blocks of text included in the feed that aren&#8217;t in any of the others.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of each post, I&#8217;ve included the following message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Attention:<\/strong> Comments left on this post in LiveJournal will not be seen by me! If you&#8217;d like to leave a comment (and please, feel free!), please do so on the original post on my weblog. Thanks much!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other thing I wanted to be sure I took care of was people who might have started subscribing to me before I moved over to Feedburner. There&#8217;s a good chance that their aggregators will still be subscribed to the <code>eclecticism\/index.rdf<\/code> address, and have just been following my webserver&#8217;s redirect over to Feedburner ever since I put that in. So, I&#8217;ve also included the following text at the beginning of every post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  (<strong>Note:<\/strong> This is a specialized feed produced for LiveJournal syndication. If you are receiving this feed outside of LiveJournal, please redirect your subscription address to <code>http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Eclecticism<\/code> &#8212; thanks!)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I may take that notice out after a few weeks, or move it down to the end of the post so it&#8217;s not prepending every post that LiveJournal syndicates, but I wanted to make sure that it was nice and visible for now, so that anyone who needs to make the switch to the Feedburner address can do it.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, I think we&#8217;re set. Obviously, this won&#8217;t <em>prevent<\/em> anyone from leaving comments on the LiveJournal syndication pages, but with any luck, it will at least greatly decrease the number of times that it happens. At this point, I&#8217;ve done just about everything I can, I think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBT%2526albumTerm=ESCM%2526songTerm=Content%26 partnerId%3D30\">Content<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1= itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBT%26partnerId%3D30\">BT<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBT%2526albumTerm=ESCM%26partnerId%3D30\">ESCM<\/a><\/em> (1997, 11:01).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allrighty then&#8230;it wasn&#8217;t the solution that I was hoping for, but I think I&#8217;ve managed to fumble my way through _a_ solution for my issues with the woody_eclectic LiveJournal feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}