So close. So very close now. And as I attempt to avoid freaking out in advance of the start of Season 2, I give you this piece of tomfoolery (matfoolery?) to tide you over until next week’s Fateful Day, when we gear up for another chapter of 6-Commando.
This week, I have a little bit of nitty-gritty to add to the mix, and it’s about RSS feeds. I can already imagine everyone’s eyes glazing over. But basically, there have been a lot of rumors floating about lately about Feedburner being on the chopping block over at Google, which owns the brand these days, and seems to have been making moves towards cutting the service off for some reason. I use Feedburner to run the stats on the RSS feed for this site, but unlike a lot of other users, I’m not dependent upon it, because it’s just picking up my site’s built-in RSS and redirecting it. So if Feedburner went away, I’d still have a feed, it would just revert to the original source address (which is https://www.viciousprint.com/6commando/?feed=rss2, I think). I’m not in a panic about it, but I know there are some people who like to get this comic delivered to them via RSS. To you, then, I say that I’m basically riding it out for the moment, and not dumping Feedburner (even though it’s been going wonky lately). If, however, your RSS feed is terminated unexpectedly, simply reset your subscription to the original RSS link and you should be back to normal. None of the content will be lost, since it’s all generated by my own RSS script, not by Feedburner.
Anyway, that’s all a lot of nonsense to me, but I wanted it to be out there, just in case. And to the rest of you, well… let me say, it was a grave temptation to start posting content this week, but I stuck it out, and now have about three or four weeks of “buffer” built up, which is comfortable. But man, this is going to be a wild couple of chapters. I hope you’re ready!
That must take up a lot of time, programing wise, to sort out
Oh, you have NO idea man. I’m recoding a large portion of the site even as I write this, correcting a whole pile of other structural weaknesses in the original site design. But in the end I do think I’ll have a much slicker and more trim interface that will let me compensate for these kinds of problems much more easily as they crop up.
–M
I think the feed burner issues are over…I kinda freaked out when I notice my subscribers at “0”.
Yeah, I think the broader issue remains, that FeedBurner is not being well supported by Google, and a lot of pay services are trying to whip up a crisis to poach users. Either way I know my content is being published by my own RSS aoplet, and so it may be a little hassle, but it’s not really damaging my “brand.” It’s one of the reasons I’m distrustful of aggregators. But like I said, we’ll wait and see.
–M