Feeds ....

[florentinescot]

I know that one can set up a feed, but is there a place where you can check to see if somebody has already done that, first?

thanks!

Comments

[willful_zephyr]

When you try to create the feed, it will tell you if it already exists.

[florentinescot]

Cool. Thanks!

[willful_zephyr]

I only know from experimentation. I'm a big fan of, "What does THIS button do?"

[willful_zephyr]

LOL, and I didn't know enough to think about what would happen if it already existed.

[holyschist]

Trivia: I tried this today and it told me the feed did not exist, walked me through the setup, and then added me to the feed which did, in fact, already exist. So it worked, but didn't do exactly what it said on the tin.

[florentinescot]

do you reckon that 2 of you could have been setting it up at the same time, only you got beet out by a few seconds?

[jumpuphigh]

My guess is that it was a feed that had been duplicated because there were two links that could have been used to make the feed. So, one was folded into the other and now, when you try to make a feed with the non-dominant feed link, it knows to add you to the dominant feed but the steps to make that happen aren't quite sorted out yet. The combining of feeds just happened recently.

[florentinescot]

nods. That makes sense. What's the difference(s) between RSS and the other feed (whose mnemonic I can't remember right now)?

[holyschist]

Possible!

[madelienegrey]

If you look under the "Read" tab of the site navigation bar, you'll find Feeds. On that page, you can add the URL of the site feed that you're interested in, and it will automatically check against the existing list of feeds to see if the feed already exists.

[rydra_wong]

When you put in the feed URL, it'll tell you if someone's already created a feed for that URL -- though you can still end up with duplicates when a blog (or whatever) has feeds in multiple formats.

If you have a good idea what title someone would have given it, you can type it in directly to see if it exists; all Dreamwidth feeds come in the format http://title-feed.dreamwidth.org/ , e.g. xkcd_feed.

You could also check the grand list of the 1000 most popular feeds (which currently goes down to feeds with only two subscribers, so it's probably still pretty comprehensive):

http://www.dreamwidth.org/feeds/list

[isis]

Oh, dear. I am FASCINATED by the descriptions of the 901-1000th most popular feeds.

Bad Money Advice
Occasional Manatee
The Hooded Utilitarian
lacquerized. - a blog about nail polish
Fugly Horse of the Day

So much for getting any work done today.

[cyprinella]

I used to really enjoy Fugly Horse of the Day, but then she got really into hating on fat people. I don't know if she still does it, but it's why I stopped reading.

[yvi]

Bad Money Advice is quite interesting :)

[greenwitch]

Sidebar:

Does anyone know what the policy is for duplicate feeds? Can they be combined?

http://zenhabitsnet-feed.dreamwidth.org/
http://zenhabits-feed.dreamwidth.org/

[greenwitch]

Nevermind, support ticket made.

[stormy]

They can be combined. Just put in a support request to do so and a site admin will combine them.

[florentinescot]

Thanks. I'll do that for the Thistle-Threads feed as well (see note below)

[florentinescot]

I know that there's two feeds for the Thistle Threads blog too. When I was looking for it, 2 different folks gave me two different feeds .....