Livejournal Usability

Posted on May 29, 2005

I like the livejournal blogging software. Mostly, because you can basically enter whatever html you like into your own blog. I also like the fact that I can transparently mirror all of my involution.com news entries to my lj blog via XMLRPC. (BACKUP == GOOD). What I don’t like is the lj interface for editting and specifically, deleting entries. To delete an entry, you have to click on the blog entry link, then edit, then delete, then OK. Is there anyway to do this via XMLRPC? While I’m on my complaining soapbox, why can’t I edit my lj comments? A lot of times I’ll bork the html or make a grammatical or speling error, and I basically have to delete the comment and start over. I could bring up the “View Source” window and copy the old text, delete the entry, recomment and paste the old text, but why should I have to? Also, is there a way to do this via XMLRPC? Admittedly, I haven’t looked any of this up, but why should I have to?