How is RSS formed -OR- I hate Feedburner =(

[Agrona]

Hi Thumbs,

So I've been following the RSS feed, and after about 10 minutes finally managed to get the feedburner page for the Book Club to work, but I don't see any way to subscribe to the blog posts. The RSS link on that page just goes to http://feeds.feedburner.com/idle-thumbs, which is where the episodes are.

What URL do I need to subscribe to to get the Blog Posts in my reader?

[gregbrown]

Which blog posts are you looking for? The link you gave is to the main podcast, whereas here's the one for the Book Club:

http://feeds.idlethu...et/idlebookclub

You can also just use the View Feed XML on that page if that URL doesn't work in your RSS reeder to subscribe. It'll look like this:

http://feeds.idlethu...club?format=xml

Edit: On a related note, it looks like Feedburner is dying a slow death, so you guys might want to move off that.

[Chris]

Do you mean this page?

http://blog.idlethumbs.net

It's actually a Tumblr blog, so if you have Tumblr, you can follow it through that, or you can use this RSS feed:

http://blog.idlethumbs.net/rss

It's not very well-advertised, I know. We need to figure out a better solution for the blog in general.

[Agrona]

Thanks, Chris. http://blog.idlethumbs.net/rss was exactly what I was looking for. When you're on the blog page (http://blog.idlethumbs.net/), maybe the RSS icon there could link to that instead of the feedburner page for the episodes?

Greg: it warms my heart to see Feedburner failing. As a user, it offers absolutely nothing for me (While they may have useful tools for content authors/distributors, I feel like it just gets in the way for the subscriber.)

[Chris]

Thanks, Chris. http://blog.idlethumbs.net/rss was exactly what I was looking for. When you're on the blog page (http://blog.idlethumbs.net/), maybe the RSS icon there could link to that instead of the feedburner page for the episodes?

Yeah, not a bad idea. The reason it didn't work that way is because for several months, the blog was the actual homepage for the entire site. But yeah it probably makes more sense now to have it link to its own RSS.