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 Post subject: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:40 pm 
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Hi. I've been a long time lurker/reader of YAFGC. My usual style of reading the comic is to let it collect for a few months then read all the archives. Lately however I've gotten into using RSS feeds to keep up with certain comics like yours. However sometimes my life gets busy and I miss reading the posts now and then.

I bring this up because I've noticed that your RSS feed posts about comic updates only ever provide a link to the latest comic, not the comic that the feed post is about. What this means is when I go back through my feeds to catch up and I click on the link, it sends me to the "wrong" comic. Even though the link says 'go to Today's comic' I feel it would be more useful to have the RSS link send me to the the comic it refers to.

It is a minor thing I know but I thought I might bring it up.


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 Post subject: Re: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:59 pm 
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If you know how to set up the rss feed to work that way with the iStrip content system, by all means let me know. I've requested assistance with making it go that way for a while, and no-one's stepped forward. I'm more of a script kiddie than a programmer, and I haven't been able to figure out a better way to integrate rss into the iStrip tpl template files than what you've got now.

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 Post subject: Re: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 1:32 pm 
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Hmm. I don't personally know, but I have some friends who might. I will ask around and see what I can find and get back to you.


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 Post subject: Re: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 1:54 pm 
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That would be great, thanks! Here's the relevant thread from when I put the feed together.

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 Post subject: Re: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 2:38 pm 
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Alright. Well none of my friends have had any direct use with iStrip and I did some light digging and probably found everything that you did on the subject, after reading the thread you linked. So I went an alternate route and started looking for other comics that use iStrip. I found this one:

http://www.exiern.com/

It offers an RSS feed, claims to be powered by iStrip, and I checked the feed, they have URLs in them directly to the comic. So if you find time, you might consider contacting that web author and asking them how they setup their feed.

I'll continue looking but I'm not sure I will find much else. Sorry. :(


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 Post subject: Re: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 7:30 pm 
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And Drowemos is a member here, if memory serves.

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 Post subject: Re: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:13 pm 
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MOTHERFUCKIN' EH~ Who's the queen of everything?

A little louder, please!

The new and improved YAFGC rss feed is rolling out today. You can find it (now, with comic delivery!) at http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?view=rss

The old feed will be nuked on September 1st, so change your links now.

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 Post subject: Re: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:10 pm 
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I know that, when something's wrong, people will complain endlessly, but if everything is fine, you won't hear a peep. Well, I'd like to buck that trend for a moment and say THANK YOU FOR FIXING THIS. The old feed has been annoying me for ages.

(I couldn't find a contact email on the site, so I created this throwaway account simply to voice my gratitude.)


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 Post subject: Re: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:21 pm 
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Thanks - it's bugging the hell out of me too, and sadly as of this morning it appears that I haven't managed to completely fix the issues that made it a nigh-impossibility before (it's updating on the page but not showing up as new in my reader), so there are still some fixes I need to gnash my teeth over.

Believe me, it wasn't that I was ignoring it. It's that integrating rss with iStrip and my cache confounds me. :P

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 Post subject: Re: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:13 am 
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Works great. Could you remove the announcement of the demise of the old rss feed from the new rss feed. Those of us on the new feed have already made the switch. My Google Reader account shows me a new post for the RSS update everyday when the new comic posts.

Thanks for your great comic.

Eric


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 Post subject: Re: RSS feed improvement
PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:06 am 
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The news post will be changed when we have more news to put up.

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