A periodic request

[womzilla]

Does anyone know of a good tool for reading Livejournal with a Usenet-style newsreader?

I've said before that my biggest problem with web-based discussion boards is that they replicated all of the problems of Usenet without* giving the user the flexibility that was built into even the most primitive newsreaders. I mean, killfiles and scoring and "mark this post unread" are technologies that are absolutely archaic, over twenty-five years old, bear skins and flint knives-level stuff, but I can't use them on LJ.

To use the jargon of a past age, newsreaders empower users by allowing them to control the flow of messages. Why should we put up with their absence?

*Generally.

Comments

[baldanders.livejournal.com]

This isn't much, but there is a killfile greasemonkey plugin for LJ (and a few other platforms, including blogger), which I have found useful.

I still wish I could read LJ posts -- not comments, even, just regular goddamned posts -- from the last one I read, forward. I mean, how basic is that?

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Fuckin' A, bro! If I could have just one wish, it would be that. To read in forward order, not backwards, starting from where I left off.

Maybe every time they post another LJ propaganda paean, I should just post this wish, over and over, until someone else starts repeating it as well.