LiveJournal Niftiness

Hello, I'm writing a new command-line client for LiveJournal. There
are no so much command-lines client for livejournal, the only one I'm
aware of is clive. My client is somewhat similar to clive (i.e. it
uses $EDITOR for typing posts, supports 'header' like options setting
and can work in non-interactive mode (i.e. read stuff via args and
from stdin). However, it has a bit different philosophy behind it. So
here's the main points:

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Sorry about the last time, I've toyed with .htacess a little and the link became unavailable... Now it works.
Recently I've written a little program for the batch change on livejournal posts's visibility settings for Free accounts (I needed to close "private" posts for several years and it's toooooo long to make manually).
I thought that somebody can need this program and decided to share it=) It was tested on my own journal.
Instructions and download link on page http://jehy.ru/soft.en.html .
UPD: program works on Windows, doesn't require any libraries.
UPD 2: Source code (C++) available.
UPD 3: Works perfectly on Linux with Wine.

I think the last time I posted something in this community, it may have been yet another script that helped you make your entries private that was based on an older script by someone else.

This time, inspired by a script that hid all the potential memes from your friends' list, I created a script that removed discussion of the current US Presidential Election from your friends list.

This hasn't been extensively tested so I don't know if it works with styles that are not the one that I am using, but it seems to work reasonably well.

Let me know what you think and if you have any further suggestions.

I haven't posted here in a while about MultiLJ, as I wanted to get some of its kinks out before announcing again. But I've posted a new version of the client on the download page (accessible from the multilj community) now that some major changes have been made.

Most important among its changes, I've rewritten the communications code to the LJ server such that it is more reliable - it can even run under a 56K modem without trouble. There's also been improvements made in the Friends List and Custom Friends Groups code. There has been a number of bug fixes made, as well.

MultiLJ is a multi-window client for Windows XP and Vista. Its primary feature is that it uses internal browsers to display journals, rather than relying on one's default browser. It can display as many journals, profiles, and Friends Pages as one wishes, as well as hosting as many Post Editors as one needs. Post History is supported, as well.

I've just released a new LiveJournal client for Windows, called MultiLJ. Its defining feature is that the user can open as many windows as they need - journals, profiles, post editors, and so on - and they will be hosted internally within the program. There is no dependency on the user's default browser, nor is the user limited to writing only one post at a time. Editing and deleting past entries is fully supported, as is management of custom friends groups.

The client is new, so I consider it beta level - I'd appreciate as much feedback and error reporting as possible. THere is a support community at multilj, which is also where the link to the download page can be found (on the profile for that community).

Enjoy!

Don't know if there's something already out there for this, but...

Livejournal lets you see who picked which poll option, but it takes a bit more manual work on your part to see how that data correlates with what they said on other questions. So I made this script to combine results:

http://spacefem.com/ljpoll/

All you do is go to your poll, click "view results", click "view answers" for the questions you want to combine, and copy/paste that text into the form. Here's what you get from livejournal when do you a "view answers":

How are attractive are you?

• spacefem -- Really attractive
  
• dwh -- Deathly attractive
  
• zorpisuttle -- Really attractive
  
• ferngully -- Really attractive
  
• metawidget -- I'm not telling!
  

Do you want to go out with me?

• spacefem -- Of course
  
• dwh -- Maybe
  
• zorpisuttle -- Of course
  
• ferngully -- Of course
  
• metawidget -- Maybe
  

Here's what the script gives you:

	Of course	Maybe
Really attractive	3	0
Deathly attractive	0	1
I'm not telling!	0	1

So now I can tell that all the really attractive people are the types who'd want to go out with me. It also gives the merged names, so I could make a special group for attractive people who want to go out with me. Either way. What do you think?

I don't know if this has been posted here yet, but if not I'm sure that someone might appreciate it. Here's a simple JavaScript that makes it possible to always view other journals and communities in your own layout style (S2 only). First create a text file such as "LJ.JS" then paste the following code:

( style=mine Javascript )

After you do that, save the file and place LJ.JS in whatever directory you want. Go to Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced Tab -> Content, and click on the Manage Site Preferences button. Add "livejournal.com" and click the "Edit" button. When the Site Preferences dialog pops up, click the Scripting tab, be sure that "Enable Javascript" is checked, then look for the "User JavaScript Files" text box and then enter the directory where you placed LJ.JS

After that, you should always be able to see communities and journals in your own S2 style when you are logged in, even when you reply to comments from within emails!

I did this with help from cat_irix because I couldn't get the Greasemonkey script to work with Opera.

LiveJournal gives you a method to ban users from commenting on your journal, without removing them from your friends list. There's no indication to the banned user, until they try to post a comment. Then, and only then, LJ indicates the user has been banned by disabling the check box to comment with your own id:

( )

Logged in user: ljuser - you have been banned from commenting in this journal.

To make the state of things more clear, I wrote a Greasemonkey script that remembers people who have banned you, then changes all of the comment/reply links in that user's journal.( Read more... )

In the tradition of minifesto and signbot, I'd like to share my latest project, screedbot. It has a size setting specially intended for LJ userpics and will let you upload the result directly to your userpic list.

The results look like this:

You can tweak the font size and colors. It'll fit a few hundred letters before it exceeds the max LJ userpic size.

Enjoy screedbot!

edited to add: alogic kindly pointed me to a font with Cyrillic glyphs, so now you can write some screeds in Russian.

get_lj_opml.rb is a simple script to download and convert the "reading lists" that LiveJournal-based sites produce. The reading list is basically a listing of the feeds for every journal/community/syndication that you list as a "friend".

Some feed readers allow you to subscribe to such "reading lists" (aka blogrolls), which lets you view all of the feeds separately. This is related to, but different from, importing "reading lists"; if you subscribe, then feeds will be added and removed from your view as they are added and removed from the "reading list".

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