The annoying thing about the Alpennia RSS feed...

[hrj]

...is that what gets displayed is affected by the date on which I compose an entry, not the date on which it gets posted. But there's a recency cut-off for what gets displayed in the feed. And anything not "live" on the Alpennia site doesn't get propagated to the feed. So any Alpennia blog that I have drafted more than about two weeks before its go-live date (by my best guess from the display results) doesn't ever show up on the Dreamwidth feed at all. *deep sigh* I really wish I had equivalent Drupal code available for automatically cross-posting here that I had for LJ. Because it's a losing proposition to try to convince most people that the blog is worth following on its own. But there's a limit to how many manual cross-links I can keep up with.

Comments

[kareina]

Sounds like it is good for me that I don't use Dreamwidth to follow your blog, but use Feedly for that. It shows posts often enough that I suspect that I am getting them as they go live

[hrj]

Yeah, Feedly seems to offer up everything. But I like to cover all the possible options people might use.

[sporky_rat]

There is updated API being worked on. What would be required for the Drupal code?

[hrj]

Back when I was using LJ, there was an existing Drupal module such that I only had to tick a box in my posting template and the blog would automatically be posted to my account. Unless the Dreamwidth code has diverged significantly from the original pseudo-LJ modeling, I imagine it would only be a matter of taking that module and tweaking it. I can get the technical specs from my webmasters, if you like.

[sporky_rat]

I suspect so, and the technical specs would be useful.

(The developer spending most of the time on the API would probably find it most helpful.)

[hrj]

I've added it to my to-do list for the next website work session.

[hrj]

So I'm in the middle of a session with my web developers at the moment and we're discussing the whole Drupal export-to-blog-site topic. They suggest that the module I currently have installed (for LJ) wouldn't be a useful starting point since it hasn't been supported in Drupal for a couple of versions. But we're looking into some more current module that would make a good basis for development. If you could drop me an email address through a DM, it'll be easier to keep track of getting in contact with you when there's some progress on that front.

[sporky_rat]

Sure.