I'd set up a number of syndicated feeds on InsaneJournal to LJ communities, and for some reason the newsletters were all not coming through whereas other communities were (usually quite quickly). I put in a support request about it and received the following:
"Syndicated accounts will only update if the feed file is under 300KB in size. If there is a larger RSS feed -- for example, the RSS feed of the metafandom community on LiveJournal is 374 KB -- then the syndicated account will return the "too big" error you have seen. (The frequency of
updates does not have an effect, since LiveJournal's syndicated feeds display a limited number of entries at a time.)
You may wish to contact the maintainers of the communities or journals that have this problem, and ask them to modify the feed. In particular, LiveJournal accounts have a 'synlevel' property that can be changed from the default value to either "summary" (which will display part of each entry,
with a link to the rest) or "title" (which will not display any of the entry content, but will include the subject and other information about the entry, along with a link to the rest). If the journal owners or community maintainers are interested in doing this but don't know how, please ask them to open a support request on LiveJournal."
ETA: I also asked LJ Support for instructions on how community mods can do this and received this reply.
"You can change the community's feed settings at the Admin Console
(http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/) using the following command:
set for examplecomm synlevel summary
You will need to replace "examplecomm" with the name of your community. (An account's synlevel can also be set to "title", which will display the subject line but none of the entry content itself, or to "full", which is the default behaviour; in the above command, you can replace "summary" with either of these two settings if you would prefer a different behaviour.)
If there would be a better/other places to post this, please let me know, but it seems to me this could be a potential problem for people wherever they're setting up shop.
"Syndicated accounts will only update if the feed file is under 300KB in size. If there is a larger RSS feed -- for example, the RSS feed of the metafandom community on LiveJournal is 374 KB -- then the syndicated account will return the "too big" error you have seen. (The frequency of
updates does not have an effect, since LiveJournal's syndicated feeds display a limited number of entries at a time.)
You may wish to contact the maintainers of the communities or journals that have this problem, and ask them to modify the feed. In particular, LiveJournal accounts have a 'synlevel' property that can be changed from the default value to either "summary" (which will display part of each entry,
with a link to the rest) or "title" (which will not display any of the entry content, but will include the subject and other information about the entry, along with a link to the rest). If the journal owners or community maintainers are interested in doing this but don't know how, please ask them to open a support request on LiveJournal."
ETA: I also asked LJ Support for instructions on how community mods can do this and received this reply.
"You can change the community's feed settings at the Admin Console
(http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/) using the following command:
set for examplecomm synlevel summary
You will need to replace "examplecomm" with the name of your community. (An account's synlevel can also be set to "title", which will display the subject line but none of the entry content itself, or to "full", which is the default behaviour; in the above command, you can replace "summary" with either of these two settings if you would prefer a different behaviour.)
If there would be a better/other places to post this, please let me know, but it seems to me this could be a potential problem for people wherever they're setting up shop.