syncitems would appear - from looking at the docs rather than the source - to be potentially very useful once the ability to ask about comments is added. If you could say "give me a list of all the posts and comments visible to me added to journalname since time t", you'd be halfway there.
While I'm talking to a developer :) my other major annoyance with LJ is the way that the 'previous entry' / 'next entry' navigation is almost useless for any journal that's not completely readable by you.
If you try to use it and the relevant message is not readable by you (eg it's private or you're not in the relevant friends group) then you get a 'you are not authorised to read this' message, without even the option to go to the message after that.
A far better behaviour would be to show the previous / next message that you can read. It can't be difficult: it's what happens if you look at www.livejournal.com/users/username ...
This is a privacy issue. I may not want you to know that there are messages on my LJ that you can't read! (There's a similar issue with the calendar too.)
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While I'm talking to a developer :) my other major annoyance with LJ is the way that the 'previous entry' / 'next entry' navigation is almost useless for any journal that's not completely readable by you.
If you try to use it and the relevant message is not readable by you (eg it's private or you're not in the relevant friends group) then you get a 'you are not authorised to read this' message, without even the option to go to the message after that.
A far better behaviour would be to show the previous / next message that you can read. It can't be difficult: it's what happens if you look at www.livejournal.com/users/username ...
This is a privacy issue. I may not want you to know that there are messages on my LJ that you can't read! (There's a similar issue with the calendar too.)