lhlh
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Post by lhlh on Feb 14, 2007 1:12:26 GMT
Any chance of an RSS feed in the future?
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Post by Tom Siddell on Feb 14, 2007 7:46:32 GMT
If someone can point out how to set one up I'll look into it.
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brice
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Post by brice on Feb 14, 2007 9:28:53 GMT
Ryan North (aka Project Wonderful) has a free RSS system called RSSPECT. I've never used it, but you can check the service at www.rsspect.com
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Post by todd on Feb 14, 2007 11:34:46 GMT
What's an RSS feed?
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Feb 14, 2007 17:07:18 GMT
An RSS feed is a news feed delivering dynamic content as it is posted. For me, I'd set it up on my Treo and have it download and set off an alarm when GC was updated. Better RSS Definition (Not mine): From www.rsspect.com/faq.php
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Post by Tom Siddell on Feb 14, 2007 23:03:39 GMT
I'm working on the RSS feed now, but rsspect.com seems to be having some troubles at the moment.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Feb 15, 2007 3:29:55 GMT
Yay! Thanks, Tom!
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lhlh
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Post by lhlh on Mar 1, 2007 5:38:14 GMT
Thanks also!
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Post by cacheson on Mar 6, 2007 23:02:29 GMT
Did this get set up? I added all of my comics to my RSS reader yesterday, and Gunnerkrigg is one of the few that doesn't have a feed.
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Post by Tom Siddell on Mar 7, 2007 10:55:29 GMT
Before I add it to the page, is this what an RSS is supposed to look like? www.rsspect.com/rss/gunner.xmlI went with RSSpect (thanks, brice) and didn't spend a long time messing with the settings. I left it for a week or two to see if it would update properly. It seems to be doing so, just providing a link to the comic and nothing else. I don't want to post the pages to the feed as I'd like people to still come to my site. Other than that though, it's not very attractive.
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brice
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Post by brice on Mar 7, 2007 11:22:04 GMT
...you're welcome. You might want to bug Ryan with a question if you're concerned about your traffic stats. I imagine that he has set things up so your rss stats get integrated into your PW traffic, even if your feed includes the actual comic. I'm not certain, but I believe Ryan's Dino comic gets *a lot* of rss traffic, and I'm sure he doesn't let that go to waste. I don't rss, so I don't really know anything for sure. Just think it's likely, since Ryan runs both services, and he's a hip internet dude... ...plus you can look at www.rsspect.com/markup.php to see how to control what gets lifted from your frontpage. Looks pretty easy. So you could include your logo even if you don't want to include your comic updates. I'd email Ryan with whatever concerns you actually have. He's a one stop comic service shop and I'm sure he'd be happy to help you out. Might even plug your comic on Dino some day. Look at the www.rsspect.com/rss/qwantz.xml feed to see what he does with his own comic...
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Post by cacheson on Mar 8, 2007 8:55:28 GMT
This works for my purposes. What most comics do, though, is to generate one item for each strip, with a link to the appropriate page in the archives. For example, the RSS feed item for wednesday would link to www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=214 rather than to the main page.
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Post by dflock on Mar 11, 2007 1:56:42 GMT
Yay - Feeds! The RSS Tom setup needs to point to each individual strip, at the moment, all links go to the main page, like this: What would be even nicer would be to have to strips in there too: The idea of RSS feeds is _not_ to read them like web pages (although that's how IE7 has displayed them above) but to use a feed reader/aggregator to read all your feeds together, like this: This is Google reader, a browser based feed reader, but there are many others. Reading feeds allows you to read all your frequently visited web sites in one place, all automatically updated in (near) real time. Much more efficient than visiting a ton of websites every day, just to see if anything's changed. Dunc
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Post by cacheson on Mar 14, 2007 10:30:39 GMT
It's stopped updating. :-(
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Post by Tom Siddell on Mar 14, 2007 10:48:25 GMT
Yes this rss business seems to be a fair amount of trouble. Getting something to work that makes people stop visiting my site isn't really high on my list right now, so you'll have to bear with me as I get around to it when I get the time.
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Post by cacheson on Mar 16, 2007 9:05:08 GMT
Fair enough. Keep in mind, though, that it doesn't make people stop visiting your site, it just lets them know when to visit. You don't need to put the comic image itself into the feed, just a link to the appropriate page.
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Post by absentbabinski on Mar 28, 2007 12:40:12 GMT
Hey Tom, I totally understand not wanting to stop people coming the site, too. And for what it's worth, most RSS feed readers do a horrible job of presenting comics - especially if they are the size of Gk court. But a little flag just to say theres a new comic would be so handy. Oh and thanks for being so charming at the UK Webcomix thing
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Post by TBeholder on Feb 19, 2012 12:45:01 GMT
If you want to be notified when the site's refreshed, for Firefox there's SiteDelta addon. It quite literally checks each tracked page for changes, thus works on any site at all which isn't fully flash based or some other pile of widgets. Specifically, if you select both the picture and the comment bar below on www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php as tracked regions, it checks for the new page and new batch of guestbook comments at once. ;D
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Post by atteSmythe on Feb 20, 2012 8:12:56 GMT
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Post by grahamf on Feb 20, 2012 10:08:30 GMT
Thanks!, though maybe could you crop out part of the image as a teaser pic? One of the pane;ls that is interesting but doesn't really reveal anything important? for example, the feed line for page 995 could have this pic: and the page's subtitle.
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Post by neziak on Dec 29, 2012 18:25:11 GMT
Hi, just wanted to share this here. pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=12326e33a22c9bd6c9489989726bc7bb&_render=rssIt's an rss I made using yahoo pipes as an alternative to the one currently offered by the site. The benefits include: - unique post titles by page number
- direct linking to each page
- posts includes the page descriptions
However, there are still some flaws: - each post do not have a time stamp
- the page numbering is by absolute page number instead of chapter/page
- it works by reading the available page numbers from the archive page which means it may break if something in that page changes
- the rss feed itself only contains the last 20 pages
I'm still new at using yahoo pipes myself so someone could probably do better than this. But that still wouldn't beat having a proper rss feed from the site.
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Post by GK Sierra on Dec 31, 2012 7:29:25 GMT
Thanks a ton neziak, you mind reader you, I was actually just thinking about how making one.
The page renumbering made all my old scripts useless.
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Post by agrajag on Jan 1, 2013 0:24:42 GMT
Tom,
One thing to keep in mind is that by not having an RSS feed, you're actually losing readers.
I've been reading for over a year, relying on your old RSS feed to know when to visit your site. I have enough comics I read that I don't think to check them unless google reader prompts me. As such, I hadn't been to your site since Dec 21. I wouldn't have come since then, except for a mention of an update from a friend on facebook. There may be many other readers who are assuming the lack of an RSS update means there's no new comics and will just stop checking.
Another thing to note is that people that read a lot of webcomics tend to rely on RSS heavily. If they come to your site and see there's no RSS feed, they may never come back again.
As several folks already pointed out, just a linke to the website (preferably to the page for the actual comic) saying there's a new comic is enough. That's how your old RSS feed worked.
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Post by agrajag on Jan 1, 2013 0:40:18 GMT
Just realized how old this thread is.. oops! Guess what I should have done is just pointed out that the rss feed broke with the redo of the site and asked about getting it fixed
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Post by qrohlf on Jan 2, 2013 23:41:29 GMT
Since somebody already bumped this thread, I might as well join in. I'm a web developer with some spare time who likes the comic and wishes the RSS was a bit better. I'd happily build you an RSS feed for free as a way of giving back - probably wouldn't take more than an hour or two. If you're interested, you can get in touch with me at qr@qrohlf.com.
Cheers!
-Quinn
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Post by neziak on Jan 3, 2013 6:02:13 GMT
Indeed, it would be best if there was a script hosted on the server which has access to the database/comics folder to generate the rss feeds. Yahoo Pipes can only do so much.
At the moment, my rss has an entry for page 1137 which links to page# 1137 but actually shows page 1136 because 1137 isn't out yet. Reason it's there is because the archive page was updated early with a link to 1137. I guess this could be fixed by comparing the page image location but I'm not too sure how to do this with Pipes. =\
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Post by tpman on Jan 5, 2013 6:35:18 GMT
Okay can somebody explain to me how the RSS feeds work? Do you just head to an RSS page that lists all of your chosen feeds or does it message you in some way (email? in-browser notification?). I read a lot of webcomics so if this thing is actually useful I could potentially get a lot out of it.
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 5, 2013 6:51:29 GMT
It doesn't work, for most part. Looks like it posts the same main page URL and heading over and over, without as much as adding the page's number or date. Which of course tends to be interpreted as "no changes here" by the feed reader.
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Post by notacat on Jan 5, 2013 16:46:46 GMT
Okay can somebody explain to me how the RSS feeds work? Do you just head to an RSS page that lists all of your chosen feeds or does it message you in some way (email? in-browser notification?). I read a lot of webcomics so if this thing is actually useful I could potentially get a lot out of it. This should help, although there is a lot of detail there. Basically you provide the URL for the RSS feed to software, whether on your own computer or online (like Google Reader) which aggregates the feeds together. It will then keep track of whether you have read any or all available items in each feed, and whether any given feed has updated since you last looked.
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Post by Xan on Mar 14, 2013 0:18:57 GMT
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'm in a bit of a panic mode over Google's decision to kill off Google Reader. I want to ask fellow forum members what they are using for reading RSS feeds? Viable alternatives for Google Reader (i.e. web-based, not dedicated software) are welcome. If you feel this is way off-topic, I'll retract my question.
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