The Unfortunate Reason For The Annoying Cuts : comments [Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος]

I would think that the only practical use of an RSS feed to LJ is to be able to read entries on one's friends page (which means you want to be logged in, but even if you're not you won't be going to the "journal" directly). If I want to navigate URLs one at a time, I can just go to the source. The value of the RSS feed to me is to be able to say "hey, LJ, go gather up all the latest content for me". (I've explored some other RSS options and sometimes use Bloglines, but I find the interface more cumbersome.)

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I got around to logging out and checking ... if somebody read by non-LJ-users links to one of my entries on an RSS feed in LJ, their non-LJ-user readers who follow that link will see ads. (Likewise a logged-out LJ user with the RSS feed on their friendslist, following the read-comments link.)

I do not yet know whether that would happen often enough to worry about.

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I'll note that it seems to me that asking if you mind if there's an RSS account is a RIDICULOUS question. If RSS is available, you (Glenn) obviously have no control over the reader's choice of ... Reader and to try to impose such control is pretty much useless, unless you're rolling your own and blocking referrers.

I may or may not set up such a feed.

I think "Tell your end-users to use ad-block plus/Pith Helmet/whatever it is that MUST exist for IE" is a fine, fine answer, and I work for an ad-revenue-supported company.

I also think that the days of expecting anyone to provide a successful service for Entirely Free are way over... and so do you, by noting that you're (worried, expecting) that one of your other sites will become too popular and need to sell ads to stay alive.

I wish LJ/6A/SUP coped better, and I still have vague hopes they eventually will, but in the mean time... Yeah, well.

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I'll note that it seems to me that asking if you mind if there's an RSS account is a RIDICULOUS question.

I asked if it would offend him, because I want to know that about my friends. I didn't ask his permission, because (as you noted), if RSS is enabled, he can't stop it.

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See, I totally fail to grok this... I see it the same as "do you mind if I friend you" - You can't stop it, it's fundamental to the medium, and what's the point? I don't see it as polite... I truly feel that supporting the pov that such a thing is something that the person being friended/feeded/read should be emotionally invested is does nothing but add to The (wow. I meant to misspell that...) Drahmah when the Wrong Person reads the Wrong Thing/adds the Wrong Person/creates the Wrong Feed Account.

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See my note (http://dglenn.livejournal.com/1190362.html?thread=3984090#t3984090) to

jbsegal, above.

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It's moot. There's a feed I set up while I was experimenting and still hd a paid account, that I forgot to delete when I could (I don't think I can now), and that I forgot was there until I tripped over it recently. So unless I cut it off from the IJ end, defeating syndication for other uses as well as for LJ, it's there ... and I guess I don't have to finish mking up my mind whether I want it to be there or not. (Not, as you point out, that I could do anything about it other than state an opinion anyhow.)