THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Awesome. I always wondered why the RSS feed looked so bad. It was especially irritating when viewing articles that contained charts or lists.

Thank you!  I’ve been frustrated by the way Google Reader formats your posts, but Atom seems to be the trick.

Drew

Yeah, dude! Atom is looking pretty sharp!

The Atom feed looks better, but the nice thing with the RSS feed is that when you click on the link for the post title, it brings you directly to the thread with the comments. Not a big deal, though.

I can fix the Atom feed to do that.  I was wondering what I changed from the original RSS feed, and I didn’t look too closely.

This was the original RSS feed:
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/rss_original/

I modified it slightly, as shown above.

So, I will just change the Atom feed so that it links appropriately.

Ok, I have updated the Atom feed so that:
1. it includes the byline
2. it includes the “body” (in addition to the default “summary")
3. it links to the “comments” page, not “articles” page

“Summary” is the text you see on the home page.  “Body” is the text you see when you click “read more”.  So, in the feed, you are going to get both automatically.  I can create two separate feeds, one that has just the summary, and the other that has both summary and body.

The “articles” page only has the main blog post, but no comments.  The “comments” page has both the main blog post and the comments.

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If everyone is happy, I’m going to point the RSS page to the Atom page, so no one has to make any changes.

If everyone is happy, I’m going to point the RSS page to the Atom page, so no one has to make any changes.

Please. Even without your changes in post #6, the adjustments make things much easier. Or, as is often said nowadays, there’s much less friction.

Ok, these are now the official feeds:

http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/atom/
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/atom_comments/

You can see these at the bottom of the main blog page as well.

For those who already subscribe, you don’t have to do anything (maybe hit refresh).

Nice! Definitely makes reading the feeds much easier.

Great! Thanks for the tip. Much better.