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bsdcat

RSS and comics

Jan 11, 2010 00:39

Apropos my previous post about moving RSS feeds away from LiveJournal, I've been using my main domain to help myself track webcomics for a very long time. I finally decided to clean that up and track comics via RSS (especially since regardless of stated schedules, many of the comics are completely irregular with when they update, so I feel like I ( Read more... )

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ehowton January 11 2010, 16:15:38 UTC

I read only xkcd and Ctrl-Alt-Del, but I think I'm going to drop Ctrl-Alt-Del. xkcd is not only way more relevant to my life, it also shows up on my FL without having to open it in a separate tab. I'm getting tired of Ctrl-Alt-Del's long, seemingly irrelevant story arcs.

bsdcat January 11 2010, 16:30:50 UTC

I follow Ctrl-Alt-Del, VG Cats, PVP, and Penny Arcade in part to see what they say about games. But also, well, it's usually more effort to stop reading one (and remove it from my list) than to keep suffering through. :-P

ehowton January 11 2010, 16:50:45 UTC

HA! I must admit I enjoy Ctrl-Alt-Del's "take" on n00bs in newly released games & the marketing and playability behind them. Remember Tom French's hair petting that reporter guy? Good stuff.

hiro_antagonist January 16 2010, 05:20:20 UTC

RSS feeds for webcomics are the way to go. Been using google reader happily for a while now.

The RSS feeds I hate the most are the ones that try to get you to click a link to go to the actual site to see the content.

bsdcat January 16 2010, 05:21:51 UTC

For comics, I've found that I usually go to the main site anyway, because the way Google Reader frames them will usually cut off a panel or make it ugly to look at. :-P

hiro_antagonist January 16 2010, 05:27:32 UTC

Weird, never had that problem.