Tumblr now has pw-protected blogs, and other things
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charmianhttp://staff.tumblr.com/post/267925870/now-testing-password-protected-blogs-it-just-got
Sweet. Tumblr is now allowing you to have password protected blogs (along with the private blogging feature). Since you can control multiple blogs under the same account, this in a way does give you granular privacy, since you can create separate pw-protected blogs for different groups.
Speaking of privacy, thinking more on the cross-site authenticated flist reading issue, until Dreamwidth somehow resolves the problem (which from reports, it seems they still have quite a ways to go) probably if you have a small friendslist on LJ, the easiest way to read LJ without touching the LJ site is to set an emailed notification every time a person on your flist posts. That means that all the posts will go to your email account, IIRC. However, I suppose this is only convenient if the number of people who you follow on LJ is small.
Also, wow, LJ ads have gotten quite uh, advanced. I have a Plus account and suddenly my window went gray and a Best Buy movie-ish ad (the sort where you have to close it to make it stop) popped up. Obviously I use Plus, so ads are what I will see, but this was the first one like that I've seen. (Or this could be a trojan or something, not sure what it is, but since there was a Best Buy ad in the inbox page, I suspect it really was related.)
Sweet. Tumblr is now allowing you to have password protected blogs (along with the private blogging feature). Since you can control multiple blogs under the same account, this in a way does give you granular privacy, since you can create separate pw-protected blogs for different groups.
Speaking of privacy, thinking more on the cross-site authenticated flist reading issue, until Dreamwidth somehow resolves the problem (which from reports, it seems they still have quite a ways to go) probably if you have a small friendslist on LJ, the easiest way to read LJ without touching the LJ site is to set an emailed notification every time a person on your flist posts. That means that all the posts will go to your email account, IIRC. However, I suppose this is only convenient if the number of people who you follow on LJ is small.
Also, wow, LJ ads have gotten quite uh, advanced. I have a Plus account and suddenly my window went gray and a Best Buy movie-ish ad (the sort where you have to close it to make it stop) popped up. Obviously I use Plus, so ads are what I will see, but this was the first one like that I've seen. (Or this could be a trojan or something, not sure what it is, but since there was a Best Buy ad in the inbox page, I suspect it really was related.)
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Date: 2009-12-04 02:48 am (UTC)And it's not that much worse than having to backread one's flist, in my opinion.
I like my method because I only have to visit the LJ inbox - and then individual entries if I want to comment or read all the existing comments.