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RSS Stuff

If you’re reading this right now in Google Reader, this blog entry is for you =)

Some of you may be subscribed to a slightly weird url (http://feeds.feedburner.com/lefthandedtoons/awesome?format=xml).  Our official feed url, http://feeds.feedburner.com/lefthandedtoons/awesome, actually has more readers and more activity going on with likes and all that in Google Reader.

If you can, please switch your subscription to http://feeds.feedburner.com/lefthandedtoons/awesome.  Google Reader is doing some kinda weird things with our feeds and the “more like this” feature, so we’re just trying to get all of you guys in one place and not split anyone up at all!

Here are some step-by-step directions for Google Reader

  1. Click This and unsubscribe from the feed (Feed Settings -> Unsubscribe) if you are subscribed.
  2. Click This and subscribe to the feed
  3. Receive the appreciation of LHT

Let us if you have any questions or problems and thanks for helping us out!

-LHT

This entry was posted on Monday, May 3rd, 2010 at 1:08 am and is filed under postforfeed, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “RSS Stuff”

  1. Shanikwa says:
    May 2, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    W00t, I was on the right feed all along~ <3

  2. danineteen says:
    May 3, 2010 at 3:39 am

    What if I'm using Safari and am subscribed the the first RSS link in this post (with the xml at the end)?

  3. Jeff says:
    May 3, 2010 at 4:43 am

    The thing is your *actual* feed really is at the "weird url". Your "official" feed URL is just an XHTML website that links to the canonical weird one. The way Google Reader treats them as separate feeds is a purely a UI issue on their end.

    I just consider it punishment for allowing FeedBurner to spy on your readers. :-)

    • justin says:
      May 3, 2010 at 5:41 am

      Yea, it's definitely a GR issue. Given that Google owns Feedburner though, they could easily know that all Feedburner urls with a certain root string are the same and lump them all together since they control the code that produces the xml.

      They actually fixed a front end bug semi-recently. They changed the subscribe link on the Feedburner feed landing page so that it was always the same url and never had any random querystring info in the link. Before, if you went to that page with ?format=xml, you ended up subscribing to the ?format=xml feed and not just the root one.

      Anyway, yea, bunch of stuff =P We're just trying to get all the readers under one roof in Google Reader to work around their problem.