On syndicated feeds

[tamaranth]

I'm starting to think that setting up feeds to my non-LJ blogs was a bit of a mistake.

Are there ways to get around the following?

- posts only go back a week or so -- not to start-of-feed
- no email notification of LJ comments on the feed (which are presumably lost when the posts drop off the back of the feed)
- no way of updating syndication parameters, such as whether to display the whole post or just the top few lines ...

If you've left a comment on something and I never responded, I may not have seen it. (The only way I can think of to get around this is for people to click through and comment on the original non-LJ posts!)

Comments

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I assumed you wouldn't get comment notifications, which is why I've been clicking through to comment. However that has the opposite problem, I don't get an email when you reply, where I would on LJ.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

hadn't thought about the converse of the no-email-notification issue! Hmm ... wondering if I should just give in and copy/paste the posts to LJ: but then what's the point of having an external blog?

Rhetorical, really. The whole idea was to keep something separate from my personal stuff, something that I could point to if anyone ever asked about blogging or book reviews or whatever. And the music blog was set up 'cause I mistakenly thought they would host my files; they won't, but the service via mail2web will ...

Gah. Have woven tangled web!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

It's real pain having my academic blog on Blogspot - it doesn't give me comment notifications and I SOOO mis them..

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Blogspot? I get comment notification from mine!
Log into Blogspot, go to Change Settings and enter email notification on the Comments tab ...

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Change settings is greyed out - it tells me I can't change settings -- do you know why? I fidn Blogspot really frustrating.. Andres set it up..

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

either you're not logged in or it's been fiendishly set up not to let you change settings! Prod Andres ... it can be done, promise!

[dougs.livejournal.com]

For the first two -- no, if you're updating elsewhere and using a feed, you'll only get recent stuff here, and since no-one "owns" the feed itself, there's no recipient for comment notification emails.

As for the third thing -- the source of a feed can be changed by contacting the boys and girls in support (http://www.livejournal.com/support), but only if the feed no longer works. See FAQ 150 (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=150).
You may be able to change how much of each post is "fed" by changing parameters at the source end, on the non-LJ site.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

annoying not to have any control over a feed that I created!

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

This is why I ended up copying everything on the academic blog through into LJ.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

not much point in me doing that, there aren't enough comments to make it worthwhile

[soulstar.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's anything to be done about the first two. Annoying, isn't it?

The last, I think, depends on blogspot. The feed that LJ shows is completely dependant on what's coming from the rss file. If you can edit the template of that file at your blog, then you should be able to change it from displaying just an excerpt, to displaying the full text of each entry. That's how it works with Movable Type, anyway!

[soulstar.livejournal.com]

ps - I've just realised I can hear your icon. that's kind of disconcerting....