DW and LJ and feeds

[carbonel]

So these days I don't read LJ all that much, but I do wander over there from time to time because there are a few people who don't have DW accounts (waves at seekerval) whose posts I still like to read.

I thought I moved all my RSS feeds from LJ to DW, but there at LJ was a new post from Naomi Kritzer that I hadn't seen on DW.

The obvious thing for me to do would be to subscribe to Naomi's feed on DW, then unsubscribe on LJ. But how? This is what drives me nuts. The obvious solution doesn't work, because Naomi's site doesn't have a link to her RSS feed (that I could find). At LJ, the feed is https://naomi-kritzer.livejournal.com/. So the obvious DW one would be https://naomi-kritzer.dreamwidth.org/. It isn't. When I try that in the "Add Feeds" box, I get an error saying I can't add feeds from this site.

So what next? I could search page by page through DW's list of top 1,000 feeds. In fact, that's what I did, and it worked -- it was on page 6 of 10 (https://naomikritzer-feed.dreamwidth.org/ for anyone who cares).

But is there a better way to find a feed for a given website? I'm just lucky that it worked this time, and it's always annoying, unless I have an actual RSS link. If I could do a text search for all of those top 1,000 feeds, that would definitely help.

Comments

[naomikritzer]

I haven't posted to LJ in years, so this really startled me. It looks like someone's set up a feed from my WordPress blog at naomikritzer.com to LJ. I have no idea how you do that, but ... apparently it's possible!

[carbonel]

I do apologize for startling you. And I honestly wasn't thinking about the in-retrospect-obvious fact that you as naomikritzer would see my blatherings about your blog feed.

The feed thing is really easy at the user end if the blog website provides the RSS feed link (I think it's an XML thing). I think only paid subscribers can add new feeds (at least, it was that way on LJ), but if it already exists, DW will say "it's already there, do you want to subscribe?" and you're good. But figuring out an existing one starting from zero is hard, and that's what I was kvetching about.

I gather RSS aggregators used to be a bigger thing than they are these days, but I got in the habit of using LJ (and later DW) as my RSS tool, and it works for me.

[guppiecat]

Try http://naomikritzer.com/?feed=rss

[carbonel]

Huh. I'll try to remember that as a general rule (and thanks), but in this case I did find the specific DW link.

[ckd]

On the LJ Profile page for a feed, there is an orange XML button that links directly to the RSS feed being used. You can use that to either find or create a DW feed.

[guppiecat]

It's a general rule that works on Wordpress sites. Since her wordpress is mirrored to LJ via RSS, it's more efficient to link to the source. I just avoided the LJ issue altogether. But your way works too. :)

[boxofdelights]

I can't help with searching for feeds, but thank you so much for telling me how to find this particular feed!