Forgive me if this has already been addressed, but I didn't see this already discussed.
My journal is set to Friends Only and I recently switched to Expressive - Cityscape: Miami. I noticed at the bottom left column, under the page summary, that it had a link to a RSS/ATOM feed. When I clicked the link it brought up every single post in my journal. It did this even when I logged out, closed the browser, and reopened another, and then looked at my journal again - still logged out - it brought up every single journal entry. These are all supposed to be secure and only accessible to those I've placed on my Friends List; why is there an option for a feed that lets anyone read my entries?
I pay for my journal and would like to be able to use the creative themes that were designed for and by LJ, but I don't want to compromise my bit of privacy at the same time. Is this something that can be customized to NOT have a RSS feed? Did I miss it somewhere where it stated this up-front and I should have known this before switching themes?
Thanks for your time,
Jac
My journal is set to Friends Only and I recently switched to Expressive - Cityscape: Miami. I noticed at the bottom left column, under the page summary, that it had a link to a RSS/ATOM feed. When I clicked the link it brought up every single post in my journal. It did this even when I logged out, closed the browser, and reopened another, and then looked at my journal again - still logged out - it brought up every single journal entry. These are all supposed to be secure and only accessible to those I've placed on my Friends List; why is there an option for a feed that lets anyone read my entries?
I pay for my journal and would like to be able to use the creative themes that were designed for and by LJ, but I don't want to compromise my bit of privacy at the same time. Is this something that can be customized to NOT have a RSS feed? Did I miss it somewhere where it stated this up-front and I should have known this before switching themes?
Thanks for your time,
Jac
- Current Mood:confused
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That, however, doesn't answer the larger question you have, which is the same question I have for the same reasons. I was *irate* to see the RSS/ATOM feed link there, and more so to see the same behavior you did when I found it months ago. I haven't gone so far as to try to generate an RSS/ATOM URL manually to see if it works even without the feed link there (in theory it probably should, unfortunately - but at least not having the feed link there makes it less likely that casual observers will find it, and search engines and such won't find it).
If I manually created the URL while logged in, I did, indeed, get a list of all of my entries (startling to say the least).
However, I logged out, and then refreshed the page that the feed was loaded in, and they disappeared - so it does look like they have security running. I'll need to get a friend try it who's not on one or two of the filters I've posted to recently to be completely sure, but it does look like they've got security running on the feeds. *phew*
Less upset now :)
I don't think "Syndicate" should be the default here, because those of us with filters and Friends Only status are unknowingly forfeiting those securities.
As someone else mentions later - the RSS/ATOM feature is not a theme feature - it's an LJ feature. The fact that the expressive theme expressly gives you the option to easily put in your journal layout is technically irrelevant.
Hope this helps.
it's feeds NOT deleted, when you swith at another theme, there ALWAYS in you journal (try to see source code of your diary at any other theme, you find link to you atom/rss feed)
sorry for my English, i hope you understand what i wrote
for example, i see only 1 record in your atom feed)