From: howardtayler	Date: August 20th, 2008 04:27 am (UTC)		(Link)

PUT IT IN THE BATHROOM.

	From: mamaslyth	Date: August 20th, 2008 04:33 am (UTC)		(Link)

ROTFL!!!

Well, it would get seen there the most often.

	From: snipeyhead	Date: August 20th, 2008 02:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Oh, and once you have a decent amount of subscribers to the RSS, you may want to publish the chicklet version, which shows the number of subscribed people. Code is available under Publicize, I believe.

	From: howardtayler	Date: August 20th, 2008 05:02 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Yup. I'm looking at doing both of those - email subscriptions and chicklet-stats - next. Gimme a week.

We're already up to over 1300 subscribers to the feed, even though only about 140 people have "friended" the LJ version. Lots of traffic!

	From: snipeyhead	Date: August 20th, 2008 05:12 pm (UTC)		(Link)

That's great! 1,300 is nothing to sneeze at, so soon out of the box.

Generally speaking, if someone is subscribed to your RSS feed, they wouldn't friend the feed on LJ - it would just clutter their friends page with content they're already getting elsewhere.

And certainly not that you don't have plenty of other awesome resources, but if you ever have web/rss/whatever questions, feel free to drop me a line. Been doing this for about 13 years now, and I'm happy to lend any insight if needed.

	From: howardtayler	Date: August 20th, 2008 05:32 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I appreciate the offer. Mark Shieh is the developer who built most of this for me -- all I've been doing is using the Feedburner widgets and other assorted idiot-tools to spread the word.

I enabled email subscriptions, but the URL doesn't always work. Feedburner issues, it looks like. Try it out?

Subscribe to Schlock Mercenary RSS by Email

	From: snipeyhead	Date: August 20th, 2008 05:34 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Gave me an error too. I have a friend at Feedburner - will drop him a note about it.

	From: howardtayler	Date: August 20th, 2008 05:34 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Which is to say... it works in FireFox, but not in IE. Go figure.

	From: no_relation	Date: August 21st, 2008 06:35 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I do both, myself. Same with Dinosaur Comics and Irregular Webcomics. I enjoy the discussion on the LJ feed, especially on those. Places like Punch 'n Pie or Something Positive, not as much. Not sure why. (Actually, I know exactly why, but this isn't the place to gripe.)

	From: snipeyhead	Date: August 21st, 2008 06:43 pm (UTC)		(Link)

That's why I said "generally speaking" :) I personally don't typically subscribe to LJ group RSS feeds if I'm already watching the feed in a feed reader. My friends page is already so flooded, and I barely get a chance to look at it - AND I've got that RSS in my reader.

Excellent point tho - I expect many people feel as you do and enjoy the extra discussion. :)

	From: howardtayler	Date: August 24th, 2008 05:49 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Going mobile?

Okay, sure. What do you need besides the existing feed?

(Note: If you need a different version of the image, I can't help you. Besides, phones are catching up -- you'll be able to consume this feed and read it no trouble on any mobile device you care to use in a couple of years.)

	From: katayamma	Date: August 26th, 2008 01:26 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Going mobile?

Mostly narrower content. It would be sweet if your site could auto-detect mobile browsers and switch to a narrow format page without all the framework/columns that are so popular with current page styles.

Of course, lack of flash/java is useful to as those are quite iffy on the mobile folks.