A friend of mine in London who is a fan of my comics ( no, seriously...) asked if the site had any plans of implementing RSS feeds.

Thank you.

Sure, it'd be possible. Anyone else have any interest in this?

Well, I went ahead and did it anyway. I'm not sure what the server ramifications of this will be, so if the server load goes way up from everyone polling the feeds, I may have to yank them offline suddenly.

Your RSS feed is:

http://www.stripcreator.com/rss/comics/bunnerabb/

If you replace "bunnerabb" with any user name it should return a feed.

Thanks so much.

I'm not versed in stuff like this, but what I'm getting is what looks like the source HTML, not a feed.

It looks like a raw style sheet.

I'm probably doing this wrong.

Got it. Thanks.

I now have an RSS feed of Boorite's comics :)

This rocks.

I am also getting a bunch of HTML-type stuff. What the hell is an RSS feed?

Took me a touch of Googling to sort it out.

Bascially, that URL leads to an RSS script that feeds the new comics from the user embedded in it to your dektop via stuff like My Yahoo or any other webside service that offers custom content options.

It's basically a form of Extensible Markup Language - XML - that feeds whatever the content that it is told to fetch to your desktop.

Check out ADD CONTENT on My Yahoo if you use it.

Yahoo 360 profiles also offer a place where you can contribute your own RSS feeds. I had no purpose for it before, but now I might.

I got this working in "My Yahoo", which I don't use, but it won't work in personalized Google, which I do use. Why won't it work in Google?! WHY?!

I just tested out adding boorite's comic RSS feed to personalized Google and it worked fine.

I'm rockin it on yahoo 360.

LIAR!

I mean... I tried putting "http://www.stripcreator.com/rss/comics/squidrabies/" into the add content thinger and nothing happened at all. Like nothing. I also tried "stripcreator.com/rss/comics/squidrabies/" and "http://www.stripcreator.com/rss/comics/squidrabies/rss.xml" and other stuff and it would never do anything when I press the "go" button in "create a section". Did you do anything special, or just click, add content, create a section, go? I'm mighty depressed.

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LIAR!

I mean... I tried putting "http://www.stripcreator.com/rss/comics/squidrabies/" into the add content thinger and nothing happened at all. Like nothing. I also tried "stripcreator.com/rss/comics/squidrabies/" and "http://www.stripcreator.com/rss/comics/squidrabies/rss.xml" and other stuff and it would never do anything when I press the "go" button in "create a section". Did you do anything special, or just click, add content, create a section, go? I'm mighty depressed.

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Good gravy. Well, now that I am at my home computer, it worked properly. Sorry to make you type that all out when it was just another case of something not doing anything on the computer at work and then working fine at home. Seriously.. why does my work computer hate me?
One last thing, on my google it now says "Stripcreator comics by" and then no author name. I just checked Yahoo and it includes the author name. Wierd, huh?
Anyway, thanks for your help, and now that I understand what RSS feeds are, I am humbled by your kickassness. Now people have an easier way to keep up with my comics. Thanks!

Hey now I'm doing it. Pretty smart. I have not written a comic in the last 3 days tho. Tell me, does the actual comic show or just the title link?

Would it be possible to show random comics from the stripper of your choice (the actual comic not the link)?

It just shows the link, smam.

And an RSS feed is pretty much updates as they happen, so randomization wouldn't be possible.

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And an RSS feed is pretty much updates as they happen, so randomization wouldn't be possible.

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Updating feeds with random content isn't generally the way people use RSS. You'd just get an endless stream of (probably often duplicate) comic titles in your reader and I don't think that's desirable to most people. Also it'd be more resource intensive to pull random comics every time someone hits the RSS feed.

If there's huge demand for it I can look into it, but I'll wait until I see if the regular RSS feeds destroy the server.

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And an RSS feed is pretty much updates as they happen, so randomization wouldn't be possible.

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That's not really true. It's a really simple format (in fact, the first RS stands for "Really Simple"), so all you'd have to do is get Brad to put random comics in instead of the most recent comics. That would be up to him, though.

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I was thinking along the lines of the comic switching daily. Maybe not random but rotational. Did I make it clear though that I measnt the actual comic shows up, rather than a link?

Garfied does it on my Yahoo page every day.