DreamWidth?

[rhu]

Several of my friends are starting to decamp from LiveJournal to DreamWidth.

The main reason I still use LJ as my blogging platform (as opposed to something under my own control) is because you can't friends-lock an RSS feed, and I have many LJ-friends. If you all go over to DreamWidth, I'll go with you. If some go there and some stay here, it will be a mess.

So: Is everyone planning to switch sometime soon? Or is there actually a way to do friends-locked RSS feeds with OpenID?

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Can put username and password into URL

[jikamens.livejournal.com]

I don't know about DreamWidth, but for LJ, if people put their LJ usernames and passwords into their URLs when loading the RSS feed, they'll see blog entries that you've friend-locked, assuming that their RSS feed reader handles the usernames and passwords in the URL properly. I use rss2email and use this as the URL for reading your LJ feed:

http://jikamens:my-password-here@530nm330hz.livejournal.com/data/rss?auth=digest

Re: Can put username and password into URL

[sethg]

At the risk of pointing out something that most hackers would consider blindingly obvious, I should note that this technique should not be used with an external syndication service like Google Reader or Bloglines.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

tablesaw is the only one of my friends who's talked about moving, and it sounds like he'll be continuing to post to LJ at least for a while, so I have no reason to want a DW account.

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

If I leave LJ, it'll probably be for a "real" blog like Eric's, with its own URL and everything.

[cnoocy]

It is my understanding that Dreamwidth will attempt to interoperate in terms of friends-locking with LJ. I'm not sure how successful that will be, at least at first.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

This is the first I've heard of DreamWidth.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

What is DreamWidth and how do we stake out a name there?

I have no plans to leave LJ, though.

[tablesaw]

I've heard rumors of cross-site authenticated RSS feeds, but I'll admit that I don't understand most of it and can't find the most recent mentions of it, so I have no idea how or whether it will work. It's possible that it will only work for DW users reading LJ feeds.

[temvald.livejournal.com]

It's likely that this (programatically pulling the friends list from LJ) is the method that DW will use. So, yeah, it would only work from DW accounts reading their (connected) LJ friends list.

There's also a crossposter in the works, which would allow DW users to automatically crosspost back to their LJ accounts. That plus OpenID would most likely be the way that users who move over to DW would provide access back to people still on LJ.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

It looks like people will be able to create an account based on an openID login (such as one from livejournal) and DW accounts can give such accounts access to private posts.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm not going anywhere.

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

I'm keeping an eye on DW and may create a parallel/crosspost account over there, but for the forseeable future I'll stay based out of LJ.

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

I have no current plans to migrate.

The whole thing worries me a bit. Attempting to address some of LJ's shortcomings makes sense, and DW seems extremely well-intentioned, but I fear that it could end as a murder-suicide: DW siphons users away from LJ, LJ folds, DW finds it can't make ends meet and does the same.

[cellio]

I'm not leaving LJ. I'm going to explore DW and, if all goes well, use it as a mirror. And stake out the user name so I'm findable if LJ were to go splat.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

This is the first I've heard it mentioned, but I have no interest in switching.