DCist: Don't Be Naughty: Subscribe to DCist RSS

dharris

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:16:00 -0500

How about an RSS feed with only items from the News category (or others)? I love the local coverage with the "Morning Roundup" and "Go Home Already" posts, but I'm a father of two small children and honestly don't get out much -- so the Arts & Events and Food & Drink categories aren't of much interest to me.

TheCounter

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:31:47 -0500

If you want to read the comments in your RSS reader, you need to go DCist.com and then follow IMGoph's instructions in comment #10. At least, that's how you have to do it with Google Reader.

Jaynuze

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:08:44 -0500

Does anyone else think that the RSS symbol looks a bit like the old skate rags company "Limpies"?

IMGoph

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:25:25 -0500

voteprime: right above the first comment in a story (mcgillicuddy's, in this case), there is a header that says "COMMENTS", and next to that, there is an RSS feed link for the comments on that story...

voteprime

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:08:30 -0500

and now that i've had the comments RSS question answered for me (and i feel dumb), i guess i have to ask I still don't have the comment RSS question answered. In my feed in Google Reader, I see the full post from each DCist post, the author of that post, sometimes an ad, and that's it. Am I missing something? Am I supposed to be able to read comments too, or am I confusing what you mean by "comments."

TheCounter

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:54:12 -0500

Google Reader checks for updates to a particular feed at a frequency based on how many other Google Reader (and iGoogle) users are also subscribed to the same feed. Using Google Reader (and maybe iGoogle also?), you can see how many other Google users are subscribed to that feed. The more popular feeds are checked more frequently, so FAIL Blog (17,000 readers) will be checked more frequently than DCist (2,000 readers). A benefit of Google Reader is that it instantly and automatically remembers which items are read, and which are unread, so you can sign in on a different computer and pick up where you left off. The question that I'm really wondering is, why is DCist so eager for us to read via RSS instead of the website? I don't get banner ads via RSS. Seems like reduced revenue.

tenleytownist

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:52:49 -0500

i dont get it... people reading the RSS won't see the ads. Why is DCist shooting itself in the ad-revenue-foot?

IMGoph

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:31:07 -0500

and now that i've had the comments RSS question answered for me (and i feel dumb), i guess i have to ask...do people who subscribe to comments that way find that the feed updates in a timely manner? because i subscribe to some RSS feeds that only update once a day, and it tends to not be worth it if you're looking for timeliness.

IMGoph

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:06:10 -0500

wait a minute, is there a way we can subscribe to the comments for individual stories?

Tom Lee

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:48:06 -0500

darjama: clicking through the link above, it's clear that the title field of each entry in the feed is the commenter's name. If there's a problem, it looks to me like it's with Thunderbird.

darjama

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:34:06 -0500

so when are you going to fix the comments on the RSS feeds? They don't list who wrote the comments, at least using Thunderbird as a RSS reader.

Tom Lee

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:29:25 -0500

follow the link, McGillicuddy. This isn't a question of differing taste in UI; it's a question of the organization that owns Bloglines not being interested in maintaining it, and only keeping it un-broken enough to be salable. You may not have noticed its failings because chief among them is not showing updates for some of the feeds you're subscribed to -- and it's hard to notice a negative.

McGillicuddy

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:53:43 -0500

i've had no issues with Bloglines. why is Google Reader any better?