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tcr! tcr! · Mar 9, 2014 at 10:32 am

If you’re into that kinda thing, here’s the link: /comments/rss/

If you don’t know what that means, it’s for nerdy people like me.

If you’re mildly curious, have a look at what Wikipedia says about RSS.

In other news, there’s a new Quick Tip at the bottom when adding a new post: 2. Posting Links. Following that is how I get the uniform look when linking to other sites.

#tcr

keamoose · Mar 9, 2014 at 11:33 am

I'm into that kind of thing!

Actually, on that subject, I've been following the articles RSS feed, and I'm getting some strange behaviour. I'm not sure if it's the feed or my feed reader (Doggcatcher for Android), but I haven't seen this on other feeds. Normally, the default when clicking on a post is to open the post so I can read it, but on this feed, when there is a photo or video in the post, Doggcatcher defaults to downloading the media, as if it's a podcast. I can still read them by going to "description", but it's weird.

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tcr! tcr! · Mar 10, 2014 at 10:19 am

Ya, I've noticed that with some feed readers that specialize more in podcasts that text-based feeds. It seems like they're inclined to think that the attached media is more important than text content itself, which kinda makes sense.

It's on my list to have a look at the Atom feed format to see if that offers any better solutions. See, I had an idea last night…

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tcr! tcr! · Mar 13, 2014 at 3:06 pm

Update: I've disabled the enclosures (media attachments) to the feed. Seems as if the spec only allows you one per entry and I don't see much value in them, even more so since we're not podcasting here. :-)

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keamoose · Mar 13, 2014 at 5:16 pm

Awesome, I just checked in my feed reader and it's working the way I expect it to now. The videos show as a black rectangle, but the link is there to view them, so that's totally fine, and it's the same thing I see in other feeds. The main thing is, it's no longer treating every media file as a podcast.