[info]stewardess in [info]07refugees

Viewing alien blogs through a livejournal flist

Folks, I put together a "how to" for folks too...something...to leave LiveJournal and go Insane.

Share it with your friends on LiveJournal who are freaking out about how they will keep in touch with you.

http://stewardess.insanejournal.com/177886.html
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Posted on Jul. 28th, 2007 at 04:32 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]aristoboule

THANK YOU!!!
Posted on Jul. 29th, 2007 12:16 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]stewardess

You are welcome!
Posted on Jul. 29th, 2007 02:37 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]sagami

But this method also stresses the server on both ends out, does it not? From what I understand, a feed uses more resources than an average journal. So if everyone here makes two feeds (example), the stress on the poor server will be tremendous--and insanejournal might be forced into having massive downtime because of this method (if people are importing journals from the LJ end to IJ).
Posted on Jul. 29th, 2007 01:43 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]stewardess

It seems unlikely it would stress the servers. Our insanejournals are RSS feeds already; RSS is how we read other insanejournals on our flist.
Posted on Jul. 29th, 2007 02:38 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]stewardess

When you "friend" someone, you are actually subscribing to an RSS feed.
Posted on Jul. 29th, 2007 02:39 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]sagami

But doesn't the other way cause stress? In the least, that was what I understood the discussion livejourbal had shortly before they closed feeds for a while. Chris also updated here on the impact of feeds on a LJ clone site, so I'm a little cautious about using quite that many feeds here on insanejournal.
Posted on Jul. 29th, 2007 09:12 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]stewardess

I will check with IJ support.
Posted on Jul. 30th, 2007 05:11 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]sagami

Thanks. It's greatly appreciated. ♥

I notice that you opened a support request, and thought I'd just clarify, because your question seems to address a totally different issue from what I was pointing out. So I'll just put it here, in case the people who go to the thread wonder what the concern is.

The concern that I have is this: the solution of feeds that you're proposing works both ways, ie. people on LJ can use feeds (on LJ) to get insanejournal content; people on insanejournal can use feeds (on insanejournal) to get LJ content.

The main worry that I have is this: will creating feeds on insanejournal (to get LJ content) impact servers (since it seems to have done just so on livejourbal)? And if so, is making feeds to get content (be it on insanejournal or livejournal) something that should be encouraged?
Posted on Jul. 30th, 2007 10:28 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]stewardess

I have an update:

Syndication does have a minor effect on InsaneJournal's servers, in that the external syndicated accounts do request information at regular intervals; however, this effect should not adversely affect anything on InsaneJournal's end, especially as external syndicated accounts do not use any style or image information from InsaneJournal. (Note that the number of readers of a given feed does not cause a problem -- a feed with 1200 viewers has the same server impact as a feed with 1 viewer.)

I didn't consider that it's only one feed for any individual blog, no matter how many "subscribers."
Posted on Aug. 1st, 2007 12:11 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]sagami

Thanks for the update. It's a relief to see that it doesn't cause much effect (or at least, should not).

Once again, thanks for the trouble!
Posted on Aug. 1st, 2007 01:34 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]0vary

thing is, is that f-locked entries on ij dont show up on the feed

for me anyway

and yes its all logged in and done correctly =p
Posted on Jul. 29th, 2007 07:25 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]stewardess

That's interesting. Squeaky mentioned a problem with IJ passwords not "carrying over" that needs to be fixed. I wonder if it is related.

It's working for me, by the way.
Posted on Jul. 29th, 2007 07:36 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]0vary

gosh, i should ask if it works for my friends :x
Posted on Jul. 29th, 2007 07:47 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]ex_puck349

i don't understand how it would work, because in my exploration of rss, it can't read password protected things.... and when you syndicate an account, there's just onr url for it for every reader on a service. hrm.
Posted on Aug. 3rd, 2007 11:38 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply