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In which I am busy with RL
Apr. 10th, 2011 01:55 pmDue to many reasons, including "I feel like it", I read all my livejournal/dreamwidth friends' journals in my RSS reader (with my DW/LJ passwords so I can read flocked entries) instead of using my reading list/friends list page like most people do. My RSS reader is NetNewsWire, a Mac program, and it generally works just fine and does what I want. Mostly I trust it not to be stupid.
So some time around my birthday in early February I decided to turn on NNW's ability to sync itself with Google Reader so that if I felt like reading your posts on my iPad I could do that and the iPad would magically know which bits I'd read and which I hadn't and so forth. So I turned on the "sync please!" tickybox in the preferences and left it at that.
Apparently Google Reader doesn't let you read feeds which need passwords, but I didn't know that at the time as I'd never used it before. NetNewsWire, which should have known better, silently dropped my subscriptions to all my DW/LJ journals - the only journals I read that need passwords. In retrospect, I dimly remember this happening and me making a mental note to re-add them. It takes a bunch of time to add you alllllllll to my RSS reader so I must have put it off ...
... and then I somehow forgot about it.
I haven't been keeping much up to date with journal reading of late - I have been busy with RL and other fun and new-to-me things I can do with my newfound health! Fun RL things yay! So somehow I didn't really notice that in the big mess of mostly-unread RSS posts there were decidedly fewer unread posts than I would expect... I do remember in the past week or two dimly thinking "Hmm they're all fairly quiet lately" but that happens every so often so it's not all that weird.
Anyway, I FINALLY figured this all out yesterday and re-added the DW people to my RSS reader, carefully ticking the "DON'T SYNC THIS!" box. If I ask it to sync one of the passworded feeds it agrees, then silently unsubscribes me from the feed.
[Dear NetNewsWire, THAT BEHAVIOUR SUCKS. You should know better. Please improve ASAP!]
So yes. I am here. Please tell me what you have been up to for the last two months because evidently I missed it.
Hugs,
Ricky
So some time around my birthday in early February I decided to turn on NNW's ability to sync itself with Google Reader so that if I felt like reading your posts on my iPad I could do that and the iPad would magically know which bits I'd read and which I hadn't and so forth. So I turned on the "sync please!" tickybox in the preferences and left it at that.
Apparently Google Reader doesn't let you read feeds which need passwords, but I didn't know that at the time as I'd never used it before. NetNewsWire, which should have known better, silently dropped my subscriptions to all my DW/LJ journals - the only journals I read that need passwords. In retrospect, I dimly remember this happening and me making a mental note to re-add them. It takes a bunch of time to add you alllllllll to my RSS reader so I must have put it off ...
... and then I somehow forgot about it.
I haven't been keeping much up to date with journal reading of late - I have been busy with RL and other fun and new-to-me things I can do with my newfound health! Fun RL things yay! So somehow I didn't really notice that in the big mess of mostly-unread RSS posts there were decidedly fewer unread posts than I would expect... I do remember in the past week or two dimly thinking "Hmm they're all fairly quiet lately" but that happens every so often so it's not all that weird.
Anyway, I FINALLY figured this all out yesterday and re-added the DW people to my RSS reader, carefully ticking the "DON'T SYNC THIS!" box. If I ask it to sync one of the passworded feeds it agrees, then silently unsubscribes me from the feed.
[Dear NetNewsWire, THAT BEHAVIOUR SUCKS. You should know better. Please improve ASAP!]
So yes. I am here. Please tell me what you have been up to for the last two months because evidently I missed it.
Hugs,
Ricky
