Danny asked me how to import Xanga entires to Facebook… and so, here goes my informative post on answering that question.
If you go to “My Notes”, you’ll see on the left hand column the “Notes Settings”. When it asks where you want to import the notes from, you type in:
http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=username
And just replace ‘username’ with your user name. For me, it looks like:
http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=joshkimdotorg
This has been a not-so well known feature that Xanga provided ever since I could remember. This RSS feed only shows the most recent ten posts (it was five before…), so if you want to import anything before that, you won’t be able to.
Let the “hacking” commence
Basically, you can also use this to get around the not-so-well planned Xanga Lock feature. (Oh man… my Xanga-hate post has been waiting too long… just a little longer…) Anyway, this information is purely for educational purposes, and blah blah blah you can’t sue me blah blah blah it’s a feature blah blah blah.
I hate Xanga Lock. I even made up a random account just to spite the people who use it… and now I use it to visit random people’s site just so that they’d look at their anti-stalker stalking tool (oh, the irony… the stalkee becomes the stalker…) and click through to my content.
Regardless, one day, I thought this one through: I wonder if the ad wizards at Xanga disabled RSS feeds for those that Xanga Locked their site… cuz after all, the guys that use Xanga Lock wouldn’t want their precious content seen by the crazy lunatics out there on the Internet. (= ME. [insert maniacal laughter here])
And lo, and behold, they didn’t. Who would have thunk it? (These guys took like 5 years (at least) to fix the horribly designed groups page… and they didn’t even do a good job of it… oh, right… not the Xanga tirade post yet…)
So, my lovelies, go “hack” away. Next time you get a screen like this and want to be extra sneaky… you know what to do.
These days, I don’t even go to Xanga anymore… I just RSS feed all my friends and call it a day.
EDIT: AH HA! There is indeed (thank goodness) a way to disable your RSS feed… it really should be that if you enable Xanga Lock that your RSS feed should be turned off by default.
Anyway, if you want to turn off your RSS feed for your Xanga, go to Edit: Account Info, and then to Privacy. On the Privacy Page, select “no” for the RSS Feed, and save.
