I’ve updated, rearranged, and cleaned up the RSS feeds for Eclecticism. Hopefully I haven’t just screwed things up too horribly for those of you who subscribe to one feed or another.
Until tonight, the default RSS feed was the ‘full posts plus comments’ feed. This may have been a bad choice, as the default feed is the most likely to be subscribed to by the casual user, and they may not want to automatically get an update every time someone replies to something I’ve posted. Because of this, I’ve swapped the ‘full posts’ and the ‘full posts plus comments’ feeds around.
I’ve also added a fourth RSS feed that is only recent comments. This can come in handy for following discussions on a particular posts, especially after it ages enough that it’s no longer included in any of the primary RSS feeds.
All of the feeds have received some slight tweaks to improve readability, including line and paragraph breaks for comments in the ‘full posts plus comments’ feed (I’m not sure why I had those turned off in the first place), more legible separation of comments in the ‘full posts plus comments’ feed, and more descriptive titles for each of the feeds (‘eclecticism: Excerpts’ and ‘eclecticism: Comments’, for example, rather than four feeds each simply titled ‘eclecticism’).
The feeds page has been updated to reflect the changes and additions, and has also had subscription information for LiveJournal users added.
iTunes: “Temporary Phase” by Sausage from the album Riddles are Abound Tonight (1994, 5:59).