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?

Comments

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.