lj question

[lilamp]

i seem to recall seeing someone mention somewhere that there was a way to look at recent comments on your friends' entries. anybody know?

Comments

[censorydep.livejournal.com]

I remember vzd posting something about easily seeing the friends of your friends, but I can't remember seeing anything about comments. Oh, and her post about that would have been about a year ago+, just to put the timeline together for you. *shrug* I doubt I have helped at all, but it was the only thing I could remember seeing that was close to what you are describing.

[mrsmalkav.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml

[mrsmalkav.livejournal.com]

via lj_nifty...

[hukuma.livejournal.com]

I don't know of such a tool; the only one I know about is this, but it shows recent comments in your journal as well as recent comments by you. The kind where you could see your friends' comments would be a huge time sink useful.

[lilamp]

hm, perhaps that is actually what was being referenced. friends' comments might indeed be a huge time sink, heh. i often read someone's entry soon after posting and wish i had an easy way to go back and look at later comments on it... oh well!

[hukuma.livejournal.com]

My vaporware comment system of doom would let you subscribe to an entire entry, but perhaps I should lean on LJ folks to implement that.

[hukuma.livejournal.com]

Turns out it was suggested over 2 years ago with no response. Hrmph.

[lilamp]

you should get to leaning! maybe you have the clout to convince someone it should happen. :)

[valdelane.livejournal.com]

If there were a way to subscribe to your post, I could see if anyone eventually replies with a way to subscribe to your post.

You hit upon one of my chief complaints about lj.

I have a friends group which I scroll all the way through every day or two quickly scanning for fresh links. This relies on the journal setting Add &nc=xx to comment URLs on http://www.livejournal.com/editinfo.bml?authas=username — a horrible hack, but I guess it's better than nothing.