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Around this time last year, we took the time to remind you, our dear, dear readers, that RSS is awesome and that you should really be subscribed to DCist through our RSS feed.
In case you are still clueless, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it makes staying up to date with DCist and the other sites you regularly read a thousand times easier. All you need is either a downloadable feed reader (like Vienna) or a web-based reader like Google Reader (extra hint: Bloglines is basically kaput, so if you're still using it, it's time to switch to a new one), and then you can add DCist so that it will periodically check for new entries, saving you from constantly hitting your browser's refresh button.
Simply plug our full text(!) feed URL into your reader of choice, and voilà! And if you already have a reader set up, that link should take care of your subscription automatically. It's what Santa would want you to do.
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i've had no issues with Bloglines. why is Google Reader any better?
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.
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.
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.
wait a minute, is there a way we can subscribe to the comments for individual stories?
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.
i dont get it... people reading the RSS won't see the ads. Why is DCist shooting itself in the ad-revenue-foot?
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.
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...
Does anyone else think that the RSS symbol looks a bit like the old skate rags company "Limpies"?
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.
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.