PSA: useful site feature

[pne]

Stealing text shamelessly from livredor, in whose journal I found this PSA:

This comment aggregator looks like it's going to be nearly as useful as a friends page. I'm not quite sure what the status of it is, if it's an official feature or if it's still under development or what; it's not documented at all. Anyway, very useful tool assuming it stays around.

Particularly since right now comment emails are not being sent consistently. The unofficial word is that this problem may be fundamentally unfixable, though people are trying.

Things to note:

• It's kind of limited for free users (only ten most recent comments).
• It lists only comments you've made and comments in your own journal. There's a view held among the senior geeks that being able to get a list of anyone else's comments is a privacy violation, even if the individual comments are public anyway. So it's almost certainly not going to be extended into a really useful feature of aggregating comments from any user you're interested in.
• There may one day be a feature that would allow you to get a notification whenever anything updates that you're interested in, but that's very much in the pipeline and at a 'don't hold your breath' level of development.

I think this could possibly be the first step to making LJ more like the good aspects of Usenet.

Looks like a spiffy thing. And I, too, have wished more than once that I had an NNTP interface to LiveJournal, with journals I could subscribe to, read/unread flags, thread and subthread watching/killing, etc. etc. A bidirectional interface—whereby I could post through my Usenet client and have a comment appear on a journal—would be even more spiffy.

Comments

[liv]

<3... this is really spreading through my friends page, but you're the only one to quote me directly. *bounce*

[pne.livejournal.com]

Well, you put it rather nicely :)