LJ read-by-security-level feature

[matgb]

Reasons to read the_lj_herald #XXVII
the_lj_herald: News Flash: upcoming changes and staff changes:

Users will be be able to filter their entries according to their security settings by appending security/friends, security/public, security/friends or security/group:customgroupname to their journal URLs. Style System 1 users will see filtered pages in the style that is used to display their tag pages and not in their own styles. This new feature may or may not be available to all users.

Expanded on by the volunteer who wrote the code, ciaran_h in the comments:

As the maker of the security filtering patch, I'd like to give you a bit more info...

You'll actually be able to filter by adding /security/public, /security/friends, /security/private, or /security/group:customgroupname to the URL, in the same way as you can something similar with tags.

I can't say for sure because ultimately it's up to LJ how this will be implemented, but I believe that it's going to be restricted so that either the user viewing the journal or the journal owner themselves will need a Paid+ account. In other words, if you have a Paid account, anybody, both free and paid, will be able to filter your journal, and Paid users and above will be able to filter anybody else's journal. Free users will probably not be able to filter their own journal, and nor will they be able to filter anybody who's not Paid+.

Again, though, this isn't official in any way. To know for sure would require access to their config, and if I had that I would probably be under NDA so I couldn't give any info to you about it anyway. :) Just to let you know, though.

Has to be said, especially as I'm planning on re-exporting soon, theis'll be a great feature, finding all your locked posts quickly will be very useful.

Reminder: The Herald is run by a bunch of non-staff anonymously (I think I can name one of the eds, but I'm not going to), and tracks a huge number of sources to round up any significant announcements in a nice friendly format. Definitely worth reading, especiallyif you don't follow any other LJ comms.

Comments

[innerbrat]

Definitely worth reading, even if you don't follow any other LJ comms

Especially in fact.

This is great for me, who am trying to change my entire journal to public and track down all flocked posts, as well as remove my filters.

I'd like to know if it weeds out posts that are set to 'custom' without groups.

(I'm also annoyed the filter doesn't go back indefinitely now. I can't get at some of the older tags I wish to remove.)

[matgb]

Especially
Amended and emphasised, you're right.

I asked what is essentially your second question in a different way on the Herald post, we'll see when it goes live I guess, I'll ask in Releases when it comes out (or paidmembers if it's announced there first).

As for old tags? Yeah, if they're over 100, which is what I think you mean, then they were dumped out, it's now over 1000 but it hasn't picked up the previously dumped stuff. I did make a start at going through an LJarchive export file but got very bored very quickly.

[innerbrat]

Over 1,000 what? Days back? Posts back.

My problem is this. And that's the tag with the most entries.

[matgb]

posts back. Up until recently, once you got to 100 posts within a tag, when you posted something new, the oldest post with that tag would be dropped. It would keep the tag, but you can't find it with the tag skip function. They upped it to 1000 a few months back, but they couldn't code it to go back and find the old posts (I have no clue why, I did ask).

I have the exact same problem:
http://matgb.livejournal.com/tag/life:+2005b

Is the remnents of my old 'life' tag, I now rename life every 6 months and start a new one, mostyl because it keeps the cloud pretty but initially because of the above problem (which I didn't initially know about).

I'm up to about May in my 2005 archive export finding the posts with find/replace, then going to that date and re-tagging. You have to actually give it a new tag, not just rename the old one, I tried that.

[innerbrat]

Crap, the archive export? *sigh* I just keep mine sitting there.

I may just remove the 'life' tag completely and go back and do the old posts at a later date.

[matgb]

Yeah, the export—it's a use for it beyond trying to import it elswhere, whcih is something.

I deleted the old 'webstuff' tag I had, because that had 250+ entries but was meaninglyess, and took ages retagging life out into subcats. When it was done, it made the rest of the tagcloud look good (formula is (#tag/#largest tag)*X px per tag so having a smaller largest tag makes sense).

Your tagcloud in style=mine looks like this currently:


Which is a bit weird but works, but because your big tags are really big, it makes the small to medium use ones teeny, I get a noticeable size increase at 10 entries, yours appears to be at 30ish.

Things we learn in retrospect.

The new version of Wordpress, however, supports tags and categories, which'll be much nicer. If I ever get around to sorting out the import/export thingy. Which will happen. Promise.

[innerbrat]

Comes of having lots of entries about a lot of topics but very few tags.

I'm about to delete 'life' and move onto the nesxt largest tag for subividing.

Stupid memes.

[matgb]

Yup—I split mine into 'memes' and 'quizzes'. I also stopped tagging stuff 'lj' and started tagging 'lj layout', etc.

[matgb]

I'd like to know if it weeds out posts that are set to 'custom' without groups.

It doesn't :-(

http://community.livejournal.com/the_lj_herald/63920.html?thread=239024#t239024

unfortunately, it won't be possible just to see all custom posts with this. :( There are other features which could go into something like this too which haven't been done in this - for example, being able to see posts which are "custom" but belong to a friends group which was since deleted won't be possible with this. It may be possible in the future, though.

I'd suggest, though, that you just go through with this feature with the groups one by one when it goes live. Unless you have a LOT of groups, it probably won't take too long, and it's still far better than what we had before. :D