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[usernamenumber]

Good: Having lots of interesting friends, strangers, rss blogs and comics on your friends page.
Bad: Getting almost to the bottom of skip=75 before finishing the new messages since Friday afternoon!

Yeesh.

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[dfn-doe.livejournal.com]

I noticed this line:
0.0.0.0 - - [23/Apr/2005:09:28:07 -0700] "GET /pics/gladiator.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 39065 "http://www.livejournal.com/users/usernamenumber/friends?skip=75" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922"

in my server logs a few moments ago, and found myself wonder how many different things you had on your friends' page that required a skip=75

:)

[dfn-doe.livejournal.com]

wonder==wondering

[dfn-doe.livejournal.com]

I should mention that I recieved this useful tip from the wonderful LJ support people, maybe it will help you figure things out...

You can filter either your Friends page, or your Friends-of-Friends page, by using the ?show= argument. By adding any combination of P (personal journals), C (communities), S (shared journals), Y (syndicated accounts), and N (news journals) to that URL, you can see only accounts fitting that criteria. That is, appending ?show=PY will show only personal journals and syndicated feeds, and will filter out anything else.

You can also append ?nohtml=1 to the URL, which will prevent most HTML from being rendered; this is particularly helpful if an entry is "breaking" your Friends page and you need to determine which entry is causing the problems.

Furthermore, just as you can go to http://www.livejournal.com/users/dfn_doe/friends/groupname to see only people listed in the custom filter named "groupname", you can append /groupname to your Friends-of-Friends URL. Doing this will only show the Friends of the accounts within that group.

Some combination of creating custom friends groupings and using the page filtering "?show=" should allow you both a page with only your IRL (in real life) friends as well as a page with all your newly found syndicated goodness. That's what the bookmark toolbar in firefox is for :)

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

Ah. That one's handy. I actually have a custom filter set up that excludes all the feeds, verbose strangers and whatnot, but this week has been slow and I've been bored, so I hadn't been filtering. Then on Friday afternoon everybody (including the boingboing people) started posting like mad!

[dfn-doe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've only got one filter setup "irl". The difference in posts between reading my irl/freindsfriends page and my unfiltered one is about 50-100 posts daily.. :)

[dfn-doe.livejournal.com]

Bah I'm getting really bad about replying to my own comments...

I forgot to mention that the only feature I still want on LJ is a comments page that tracks response to my comments on other peoples' LJs, unfortunatly they don't have one and from what I can tell they have no plans for adding one and further more because the way the URLs work for commenting I can't even add a webbug to create some sort of alert based on greps of my apache logs... bah I'm probably overthinking the solution.

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

If you have control of a mail server, you could have the "email comments to" address go there and then have procmail filter messages into a script that does, well, whatever.

That would probably work.

[dfn-doe.livejournal.com]

ug me no understandy procmail, me no likey running smtp on my box.

[ryca.livejournal.com]

labels/filters on gmail is really handy for that part. ;)

[ryca.livejournal.com]

Is there any way that I could read all of my private entries, but not the friends or public ones? Or friends but not the other two? I figure that I could read just the public ones by logging out.