Brad Fitzpatrick ([info]bradfitz) wrote in [info]syn_promo,
2004-04-07 13:14:00

policy change

New change:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/changelog/1336849.html

In summary: no syndication points anymore.

Anybody can add any number of feeds, but only paid users can create new feeds.

Clarification: not live on the site yet. will go live next time we push new code live.

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[info]phil

April 7 2004, 13:09:37 UTC 8 years ago

rad

[info]1justin

April 7 2004, 13:18:01 UTC 8 years ago

:k-rad:

[info]jaigh_taylor

April 7 2004, 13:36:11 UTC 8 years ago

G-Rad.

[info]joshua

April 7 2004, 13:20:55 UTC 8 years ago

That's delightful, especially since I was always puzzled as to how anybody could use twenty whole syn points...

[info]kibbles

April 7 2004, 13:30:12 UTC 8 years ago

I came damn close, actually. :D

[info]joshua

April 7 2004, 13:32:20 UTC 8 years ago

Strumpet! I use like 3.8 and that's plenty of feeds for me.

How do you keep up?

[info]platys

April 7 2004, 13:39:00 UTC 8 years ago

I was pretty close to 20, but I watch a lot of low traffic feeds with interested shared only by a small number of people. Knitting feeds, mainly. :)

[info]joshua

8 years ago

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[info]fool_in_spirit

April 20 2004, 07:12:07 UTC 8 years ago

the number rises rapidly if you start syndacating obscure rss you alone read.

The rss search made by feedster on your name, etc...

[info]somnambulist

8 years ago

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[info]fool_in_spirit

8 years ago

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[info]kingfox

April 7 2004, 20:20:29 UTC 8 years ago

Get a few friends who no one else cares about, add their off site journals as feeds, and it skyrockets pretty quickly.

[info]scientaestubiqu

April 8 2004, 22:53:22 UTC 8 years ago

It's easy with low traffic feeds.

Some of my feeds I'm the only reader.

[info]riverheart

April 7 2004, 13:21:12 UTC 8 years ago

That rocks!

[info]shining4u

April 7 2004, 13:22:35 UTC 8 years ago

i'm sure lots of people will be happy with the change.

[info]andrewducker

April 7 2004, 13:24:25 UTC 8 years ago

I take it that you decided that having feeds wasn't the resource drain you expected?

[info]bradfitz

April 7 2004, 13:40:10 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, it was, but we've learned to deal with it.

It was just a conservative ramp-up.

[info]voldsom

April 7 2004, 13:39:55 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you. As one of those people who read too many feeds, this would have made my evening. Is it actually active yet? Because it doesn't appear to be working. (Not that I'm chafing at the limits of a quota of 20, no sir...I haven't really been keeping a list to add.)


(Tried it through /syn, console and Sema client, all bringing up a quota error)

[info]maida_mac

April 7 2004, 13:43:06 UTC 8 years ago

Same here.

[info]shannon_a

April 7 2004, 13:45:07 UTC 8 years ago

From add.bml:

Error
Error
Client error: This would push you over your syndication quota.

[info]ursamajor

April 7 2004, 14:03:23 UTC 8 years ago

dude! you did it all just for me, didn't you, brad ... you KNEW i was at 19.9something synpoints and i really wanted to add some more ... ;)

thank you, lj!

[info]wingedelf

April 7 2004, 14:53:34 UTC 8 years ago

Although this is a nice thing- not having to track what are/might be good uses for points- it's certainly going to be argued that this is yet another blurring of the line between paid and free account users, which is a dis-incentive for anyone who doesn't have a paid account strictly because they believe in supporting the service.

Can you comment on any new features which will be targeted as value-added for paid members? (i know i'll end up defending this with at least one person)

[info]kurtkwagner

April 7 2004, 15:04:55 UTC 8 years ago

Excellent comprimise. Awesome (nt)

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[info]scientaestubiqu

April 8 2004, 22:52:59 UTC 8 years ago

Thanks Brad!

I've been wanting to go well over the limit for ages now...

As I was prepared to pay for this, I'll be buying a few paid accounts for friends now instead.

[info]dandelion_diva

April 9 2004, 20:04:16 UTC 8 years ago

Cool. Thanks.:)

Gessi

[info]macheide

April 16 2004, 12:55:40 UTC 8 years ago

thanks

with 5 paid accounts in addition to the perm account you blessed me with, i had 110 syndication points, and that still wasn't enough to keep me happy, between all the work-related feeds and the election feeds and everything else i read here. i'd been sluffing off my excess feeds over to bloglines, but sooner or later would've indulged in a few more paid accounts here. still will do so in due course, but nice to have no ceilings on the sky feedwise

would be nice if livejournal could somehow advertise or communicate this more than it already does. i've seen and read just about every political blog and aggregator out there, and at the end of the day can't find anything that gives more power and flexibility on both the writing and the end of things as LJ does. would be nice to see more political bloggers recognizing LJ's potential, more market and business blogs, more academic blogs, etc

anyway, thanks again. christmas in april for someone obsessed with reading

[info]lonita

April 17 2004, 08:45:56 UTC 8 years ago

1) The syndication page no longer shows a list of the feeds I subscribe to. Is there anywhere that does or will, outside of looking in the client?

2) Are there any plans to separate RSS feeds out on the userinfo page as communities are separated out now? I'd find this useful, don't know how many would, though.

[info]zhaneel69

April 23 2004, 12:48:35 UTC 8 years ago

Just wondering when this will go live. I know when the next code push happens, but I'm wondering if there is an ETA on that.

Zhaneel
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