Improvements to feeds and email alerts

Over the weekend I made some improvements to this site’s RSS feeds and email alerts.

Feed improvements:

1. Clicking the orange feed icons in the sidebar now takes you to a more user-friendly page which makes it easy to subscribe to the feed in your favourite news reader (be it My Yahoo!, Newsgator, Bloglines or whatever).

2. Feed items now include links that make it easy for you to email a post to someone or add it to del.icio.us.

The improvements also allow me to track how many of you are using the feeds and what news readers you are using.

If you currently use either of this site's feeds, to get the benefit of the new features you should drop and then recreate your subscriptions using the new feed URLs (this one for posts; this one for comments).

Email alert improvements:

1. Only one email will now be sent per day, rather than one per post.

2. Emails now look better and include the full text of each post instead of just an extract.

3. Emails no longer contain any ads.

If you are an existing email alert subscriber you should first unsubscribe by clicking the link at the bottom of the mails you currently receive. Then re-subscribe by entering your email address in the "Updates by email" section of the sidebar and clicking "subscribe".

Comments

[Lisa on 14.06.06 at 19:59]

Phil - you're a frikkin genius!! ;-) your blog just keeps getting better and better!

L.

[SmokingGun on 14.06.06 at 20:25]

He must be a genius as I havn't a clue as to what all the mumbo-jumbo means. Being a Mac user I just got used to figuring all of that stuff was automatically taken care of. ;-)