Hey, LiveJournal!

[marcmagus]

Not that anybody in a position to do anything about it is likely to be listening, but it would be really cool if I could reply to comment notification emails and have LJ do the right thing.

That is, when I get an email from LJ that someone has replied to my <post|comment>, I want to be able to reply using my email client and have my reply appear in the appropriate comment thread, threaded correctly. It wouldn't be hard, and it would be really helpful not to have to open a web page just so I can read what I've already read and then enter my reply into a textarea (or use "It's All Text...") instead of using the editor my mail client is already configured to use.

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[marcmagus]

So rather than implement an email gateway, they shoved a entire reply form into the email and decided to hope people who accept HTML email would be using a browser which could use the form. In the process, they clearly implemented all of the security features an email gateway would probably need.

Can I just say, "WTF?"

(It works, btw, using mutt+links, although it's a bunch of extra work [have to go and open the email in links explicitly] and *still* doesn't let me use the editor I want to like just hitting reply would.)

(Re 2: the opening in a separate browser window could be GMail interference, actually.)

[dan4th.livejournal.com]

Hm. All these things I didn't know. I've been on webmail exclusively since the 1990's.

At any rate, yes, editing comments is a paid user functionality.