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inbtwn @inbtwn11/30/2022, 2:43 AM

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Jey Pawlik @JeyPawlik11/29/2022, 5:01 PM

With all the talk about Twitter and social media going on, I felt really inspired to do a comic about RSS feeds. This is a really barebones guide but I hope it helps you stay updated with your favourite webcomics, artists and websites.

The nice thing about RSS feeds is that almost any kind of site has one, so if you wanted you could add user feeds from tumblr, twitter, mastodon, etc. here’s some helpful guides on how to add those (1) (2)

I hope you found this little guide helpful. I’m just a simple guy who’s passionate about RSS feeds, comics and staying updated using both. Go forth and make the feed of your dreams!

Topaz Comics | Topaz Comics RSS | Art Blog | Art Blog RSS

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@SamKeeper11/29/2022, 9:13 PM

thanks for posting such an accessible overview! RSS feels like such a lost art in some ways for being such a critical web infrastructure still basically used all over the place.

it might be worth noting that Patreon, due to being kind of a bad website, does NOT afaict support RSS for anything except audio posts. so if people are using Patreon as the one stop shop for following their work, they might want to think about whether an independent site would make it easier for their fans!

Jey Pawlik @JeyPawlik11/29/2022, 9:26 PM

Thanks so much! Yeah Patreon is an interesting beast but it does help me pay the bills. I think because you need a log in to access the paywall posts, it'd probably be pretty difficult to address that in an RSS feed. As someone who's only has so much time to put into websites/coding I just don't think a lot of people could make a Patreon clone that could work for RSS and have paywalled posts.

@SamKeeper11/29/2022, 9:33 PM

oh to be sure! though patreon seems to handle it just fine with the audio posts, which makes me a little cynical about their motivations.

I mean more that it's worth considering whether what we consider our "central feeds" is someone else's website that we link to our projects from, or OUR website that we link to Patreon from, if that makes sense. I think it probably makes a lot of sense to have an rss feed for ALL of one's work that then links out to a patreon paywalled post (or to an itchio release or article on another site or whatever). at least, this is what I'm thinking about for myself as I plan my own social media shift and consolidation towards something I have a bit more control over.

@waitwotno9/11/2024, 12:51 AM

For Patreon (and any other paid-content sites), if they have an email newsletter, you can circumvent this using an email to RSS service such as Kill the Newsletter! to get an RSS feed out of it. I personally have my email provider forward the newsletters I receive to the generated email address from Kill the Newsletter.

Only downside of this is that it will show you whatever the email has, and so it may not show the entire post content, which is not the intention of RSS.

Luiz Paulo @LuizPSC11/29/2022, 9:21 PM

ohh yeah! i personally use Old Reader, and i still use for comics, but before i had used feedly for facebook posts.

I hate that sorrowful place as probably everyone reading here, but my town all events, news and job offerings here, are using the cursed tool of the lizard.

before it was all blogs that worked, but then they got abandonned by their blog owners going all to facebook

and before whatever happened on facebook, (last year, midle of june i think?) i could put the page of the place, a news page, or the local theater or jobs alerts on old reader and it worked without problem.

now i have to go to that dammed avatar of misery in web form to try to see where i can learn to socialize again and have a local friend after the epidemic.