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.

[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.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

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

[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....