9/29/2008 - DM learns about powers other than lightning

Hey Everyone.

So last night Alistair made me aware that the RSS feed didn't work in Thunderbird.  My first thought was "who uses Thunderbird?", my second thought was "dang thunderbird, not accepting my rss feed"

Because, of course, my rss feed has worked for a long time, right? ;)  Now honestly I didn't ever use rss feeds last year when I made it, so not having any expectation of how one should work, I went over to 4guysfromrolla.com and used their rss asp.net guide to create one.  I created it, it looked like an rss feed, so I thought I was done. 

Philip from Frumph.netmentioned we didn't have a pubdate about 3 weeks ago, so I added it.  Which further made me think it had been working all this time.

But ....    Apparently the link didn't actually take you back to the comic because it was a relative path.  Why didn't anyone tell me?  Sigh... 

So last night, when I should have been reviewing the new dndorks site (yes, its done, it could go up any day now, just need to add some final polish, cool new feature, subscriptions to webcomic comments!), I rewrote the rss feed instead.  But now, because I use rss for podcasts (Buffy Between the Lines for the win!), I knew what I should expect from an rss feed so I did a much better job IMO.  The feed is up, shows the scripts for the comic (mostly), lets you know when one goes up, the dates are there, and validates via fia feed validator.org

Its not perfect, the HTML in the scripts cause some issues, but there you go. 

My next plans for the rss feeds are to combine the rants and articles into the same rss, as well as allowing them each separate for those interested in each...

Ok everyone, hope to have the new site up soon.  Has everyone voted? I put up a new incentive comic a few days ago, I'm not saying vote every day, but at least vote to see the comic.  :)