Thread: Feed request

Wrath
posted on
22:16 on 13 November

Feed request for Vigil Until Dawn

Site - http://vigiluntildawn.blogspot.co.uk/

RSS feed - http://vigiluntildawn.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

The wiki page on VUD also has outdated and since deleted chapters as well, I can't remove them but I have tagged them.

Thanks.

fake-name
posted on
03:22 on 14 November

Ok, I deleted the auto-releases, and add the feed in https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy/commit/45ee1c7815adc2a0cca68848d7171c619b44a7ac

It'll take a day or two for the feed system to percolate through.

Wrath
posted on
09:17 on 14 November

Thanks.

fake-name
posted on
06:49 on 15 November

Hmmm, looking at the feed, please, please please add tags to your releases.

Additionally, your releases are not parseable. Looking at your feed content, I see multiple series (are they chapters?)

Those That Dream Of Demons - 01 Part 1
Those That Dream Of Demons - 02
Those That Dream Of Demons - 06
Those That Dream Of Demons - 07
Those Who Dream Of Demons - 03
Those Who Dream Of Demons - 04
Those Who Dream Of Demons - 05
To Be Alive Is To... - 01
To Be Alive Is To... - 02
To Be Alive Is To... - 03
To Be Alive Is To... - 04
To Be Alive Is To... - 05
To Be Alive Is To... - 06
To Be Alive Is To... - 07
When It Begins To Fester - 01
When It Begins To Fester - 02
When It Begins To Fester - 03

The parser has no idea how to sort those, so you'd wind up with the releases being sorted by the information that is in the titles:

Those That Dream Of Demons - 01 Part 1
To Be Alive Is To... - 01
When It Begins To Fester - 01
Those That Dream Of Demons - 02
To Be Alive Is To... - 02
When It Begins To Fester - 02
Those Who Dream Of Demons - 03
To Be Alive Is To... - 03
When It Begins To Fester - 03
Those Who Dream Of Demons - 04
To Be Alive Is To... - 04
Those Who Dream Of Demons - 05
To Be Alive Is To... - 05
Those That Dream Of Demons - 06
To Be Alive Is To... - 06
Those That Dream Of Demons - 07
To Be Alive Is To... - 07

If you have chapters, you need to include the chapter number in the titles. If the number in the title is a part number, it should be prefixed by "p" or "part" or similar, free numbers are assumed to be chapters (there's a special case where {number}-{number} is assumed to be {chapter}-{part}, so that's another option).

There is a FAQ entry here that talks about how the parsing system works.


As an aside, you're one of many web-serial authors I've run across who seem to dump a bunch of genres into the post tags (You have "Adventure, Story, Romance, Writing, Novel, Action, Comedy, Game, sci-fi, Cyberpunk, space" on several releases). Since I see this pretty often, can I ask.... why?

Blog tags are a mechanism for readers to filter your blog by topic. It's not a mechanism for blog discovery, and if you apply the same tags to everything, it basically makes the entire tagging system functionally useless.

haridiva
posted on
14:23 on 20 November

Hello admin,

If may, I also request a feed for my work at Arunametta (the site name). Title: Eiwa - The Knight of Magical Laws (it is a temporary one since the chapter still just too few). Address: https://arunametta.asia/eiwa-the-knight-of-magical-laws/ RSS: https://arunametta.asia/category/magi/feed/

Thank you.