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QC RSS Feed
RaegX:
I registered on this forum for one reason.
To say that the QC RSS feed is joke, until the entries all have unique titles rather than "QC RSS Party Time". So useless.
Example: http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=qcrsssuckswf8.png
Prominairy:
I just registered because I wanted to bump this up before it is gone from the first threads page. I use Firefox for keeping up with a fairly small number of RSS feeds and it is really a grievance that the QC RSS feed is lacking so in useful information. I am fairly astute as to when the strip updates, but using the RSS feed for this is useless, as all it every says is, "QC RSS Partytime", once for every update. Furthermore, the entries do not link to the strips, but all to the front page.
I have personally resorted to making my own RSS feed, that scrapes the front page for updates, looks for older images and does a very rudimentary OCR of the images to get the strip titles. I know this is probably not the most gentleman-like to do, and definitely not the best of options.
I do not have any experience with using RSSPect, but from a first, brief glance it seems as if it is possible to get the info to the feed using the "rss-title" "rss-link" tags (or rather, those classes for the "span" tag).
LovesTha:
Another person registering for the single purpose of complaining about the RSS feed.
Let me run you through my Comic Selection routine:
1) find some reference to a comic
2) read the most current comic
3) check if there is a RSS feed (yeap, theres the orange logo in the title bar, all should be good)
4) spend 4 days, including a whole weekend reading back issues
5) subscribe to rss feed
6) discover the RRS feed is not worth using
7) complain of forum about quality of RSS feed
8) probably never read said comic again.
Sure you're RSS feed does make it easier to syndicate the strip. It doesn't help much for people who want to just know there is a new comic.
Its a pity, I really like the characters and plot. I also feel that I get most of the pop culture references, which always makes me happy.
BTW: I use the igoogle interface for my RSS feed viewing, so all I get is the above described static title for every comic.
nigma:
--- Quote from: LovesTha on 14 Jan 2008, 23:57 ---Another person registering for the single purpose of complaining about the RSS feed.
Let me run you through my Comic Selection routine:
1) find some reference to a comic
2) read the most current comic
3) check if there is a RSS feed (yeap, theres the orange logo in the title bar, all should be good)
4) spend 4 days, including a whole weekend reading back issues
5) subscribe to rss feed
6) discover the RRS feed is not worth using
7) complain of forum about quality of RSS feed
8) probably never read said comic again.
Sure you're RSS feed does make it easier to syndicate the strip. It doesn't help much for people who want to just know there is a new comic.
Its a pity, I really like the characters and plot. I also feel that I get most of the pop culture references, which always makes me happy.
BTW: I use the igoogle interface for my RSS feed viewing, so all I get is the above described static title for every comic.
--- End quote ---
I'm pretty much the same, except step 8, which should read more like "Forget about the comic for months at a time (because I never get an unread notice in my RSS reader), get pissed about the (still) broken RSS feed, and whine on the forums about it."
I'll send an email to Jeph to plead with him to let me or someone else fix the RSS feed this time.
vgaer:
I agree! It would be nice if they were each different!
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