Well, FeedReader lasted all of 8 hours. Then it crashed, ate all of the RSS feeds I had already entered in to it, and so I deleted it. I’m mean like that.
Thanks to a suggestion from TJ, I went and downloaded Syndirella (which I later spotted being recommended at Jish’s site too) and the required .NET stuff. It’s up and running now and I have a Reader that isn’t “broken” anymore. Well, FeedReader wasn’t broken, but as Jay pointed out, it wasn’t reading the CDATA information in my new XML template. Instead it was reading just the description information, MTEntryExcerpt, as Mark had the template (taken from here) set up originally.
I haven’t changed my RSS feed back to be like Mark’s again, but if you happen to be using a reader that I’m now freaking out with my long description, please let me know. If you haven’t updated your RSS template yet – and I’m wondering why not, since I’ve now posted about it 3 times today – here are Jay’s compelling reasons why you should. Basically, I want you to feed me full posts, not just choppy little excerpts. Sure they are a great teaser, but when I’m pressed for time I need the whole thing.
Now I just have to tweak my comment form to allow you to leave your RSS feed link. I’m always willing to do whatever I can to make Chris happy.
8 replies on “Like That, It’s Gone…”
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How is it possible that this all makes sense to you, but CSS makes your eyes bleed? 🙂
Because all I have to do for this is copy a template in, rebuild, and then read posts in a News Reader. Basic CSS doesn’t hurt me – it’s when we get in to the nested stuff, the positional stuff, and all those other advanced tricks that the blood starts to flow…
I can tell you the feed looks fine in Amphetadesk. Thanks for switching over to full feeds! I’ve been advocating that for weeks now, since I figured out how to do it on my MT blog.
ak. been trying to use that template — but keep on getting an error with it. i’ll try again tomorrow!
Slowdown of the world wide webular
The whole internet seems to be dragging to a stand-still today. I’m guessing that a worm is making it’s way across unpatched Windows servers again and not letting me on to fark, /. and u2log.com (nevermind all the blogs I…
RSS NOW!
Ok – STOP whatever it is you are doing… RIGHT NOW. Stop. Yes, I mean YOU! GO here and copy
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And I’m back! I had a great time in DC at the Computers in Libraries conference – more on that later.