RSS feed for the Alpennia Blog

[hrj]

I don't yet have an efficient way to export my blog posts from alpennia.com to my Dreamwidth account. (Unlike the one-click Live Journal cross-poster module that Drupal offers.) So I've been just giving a quick reference with a link here, but I'm quite aware that lots of people are unlikely to click through on that sort of thing.

One option is for you to add the Alpennia Blog RSS feed to your reading page. I currently have the RSS feed set up to send the entire post, which can be a bit long on occasion. The proponents of "feed the whole thing" versus "feed only a teaser paragraph" are equally vociferous.

Be aware that I don't get notified of comments on the RSS feed posts here, so if you want me to read any comments you have, you need to click over to the Alpennia website.

Comments

[klwilliams]

I can't seem to add this feed to read on dreamwidth. What exactly do you add to what page? I've been to the most popular feeds page, which is the only place I can find to add feeds, but it won't accept the URL. It says I can't add feeds from that page, but I'm not sure if it means the dreamwidth page or the page the feed URL jumps to. I don't understand.

[hrj]

Hmm. I set my subscription up by entering the blog's rss feed url because, of course, at that point the assumption was that it hadn't been set up in Dreamwidth yet. It looks like that may be what you have to do (http://alpennia.com/blog/feed).

It's confusing because the list of "top rss feeds" is linked to Dreamwidth feed urls, so it looks like that's what they want. But when I picked a random one from their top feeds list and plugged in the Dreamwidth feed url, I got the same error message you did. So it's nothing special to the Alpennia feed, just somewhat confusing instructions.

On the other hand, it looks like if I get at least 3 total subscribers, it'll get bumped onto the "top 1000 most popular feeds", though that doesn't seem to make it any easier to search for. I'll create a sticky post with the specific instructions if you confirm that the above works.

[klwilliams]

That worked. I'd just entered the wrong URL before.

[hrj]

Yes, but I think the page is not at all clear what the "right" url is. Glad it worked, and I'll post the instructions for others.