I want to use a free RSS reader for Mac that seems to do everything else reasonably. Finding that was hard enough. Vienna seems to fit the bill. It will even let me authenticate with LJ and read the protected entries in other blogs I subscribe to. But LJ cannot bother to either a) make it so I won’t need to re-enter my password for each individual blog I subscribe to, or publish my subscriptions list the same way it publishes a blog. (Thanks to some special gymnastics, I can read it, but since Vienna apparently lacks cookies, I can’t read protected entries.) This makes me cranky. I want to have a real RSS aggregator.
Vienna is written by my friend and ex-colleague – you might want to ask him questions about it directly 🙂
I use Vienna to read LJ posts, including all the locked ones. I never have to put in my username and password.
This is possibly due to the fact that LJ remembers me when I return to it via Safari, and Vienna and Safari probably both use Webkit and thus the same cookies. Just a guess.
What’s a bigger threat to America. . . LJ or bears?
I find the viewing of each journal as a seperate stream completely liberating. But I thought among the huge volume of options of feed urls offered by LJ, there was one you could get which was your own “friends” or subscriptions feed, showing the entries in the same order as they would have appeared in your journal. My reader allows the creation of “virtual” feeds that include things from other listings via various criteria. If I created a virtual feed which included all the LJ users I read, this would achieve the same thing.
As for the password dance, I add my LJ username and password to each feed configuration, and specify that it login via auth. example url: http://www.livejournal.com/users/norg/data/atom?auth=digest It’s annoying to type it on the addition of each LJ feed, but that’s only 20 or so times in my life. No need for cookies here. I believe it should work the same for an aggregate subscriptions feed, I will do some experimenting.