Feeds
Not sure about feeds? Skip down and read what they can do for you!
Feeds are available for either the entire site, or per section (Fiction, Pictures, News) or category (here, category means pairing: Boromir, Aragorn, Denethor, etc.).
Sitewide
RSS: http://www.faramirfiction.com/rss/
Atom: http://www.faramirfiction.com/atom/
Fiction Only
RSS: http://www.faramirfiction.com/fiction/rss/
Atom: http://www.faramirfiction.com/fiction/atom/
Fiction per Pairing:
RSS: http://www.faramirfiction.com/pairing/[character]/rss/
Atom: http://www.faramirfiction.com/pairing/[character]/atom/
NB: replace [character] with the relevant character, so for example http://www.faramirfiction.com/pairing/boromir/rss/ will give you the most recent Faramir/Boromir fics.
Pictures Only
RSS: http://www.faramirfiction.com/pictures/rss/
Atom: http://www.faramirfiction.com/pictures/atom/
h3. Comments
RSS: http://www.faramirfiction.com/?rss=1&area=comments
Atom: http://www.faramirfiction.com/?atom=1&area=comments
Feeds?
Feeds are wonderful – they let you keep up-to-date with all your favourite sites without having to visit a list of links over and over again. Feeds bring the updates to you. News, your local weather, or indeed, your favourite smut – if it’s on a modern website, there’s no need for you to go check for updates, it can all be brought to you instead, in the way most convenient to you.
(And no, contrary to a very silly hoax that circulated on LiveJournal a while back, feeds are not evil at all, nor do they have impact on your copyright. If you have any doubts or questions, please feel free to contact us, or read more about feeds.)
To read an RSS or Atom feed you can use a feed reader. Your email program (like Thunderbird ) or browser (Opera, Safari) might have one built in. If you don’t use any of those programs, I’d recommend Sage, a Firefox extension, so you can read all your feeds right in your browser and don’t need a separate program.
Other alternatives include Blogblot that comes as either and Outlook or an Internet Explorer plugin.
Alternatively, you can get a free account at Google Reader (if you use gmail, you’ll already have and account), Newsgator, Weblogs.com, Bloglines or a similar service and read your collected feeds there. All these services allow you to build a personal collection of feeds, and read them online.
NB: These options work great if you’re behind a firewall that blocks sites deemed too wicked for you to read by your government (or your employer…), because by letting one of these online feed readers parse the blocked sites’ feeds, you don’t need to access them yourself.
If you have a LiveJournal account, you can add a feed as a friend. They call feeds ‘syndicated accounts’ over at LiveJournal, and if you have (a friend with) a Paid or Permanent Account, you can create a new syndicated account here, which will display the feed items as entries. You can then add this account to your friends, so the feed items (= title, summary and link to new fics) will appear on your friends page.
These syndicated LiveJournal accounts already exist, and can be friended by anyone, also those with free accounts:
- Faramir Archive: All updates of the Faramir Fiction Archive
- Wiki Faramir New: New Pages at the Interactive Story
- Wiki Faramir RC: Recent Changes at the Interactive Story
Many portal sites offer their members personalized portal pages (like for example iGoogle, My Yahoo!, My MSN or My AOL). There you can add an RSS feed so it shows up in the same kind of block as for example the news, or the weather, or your stocks. In fact, these news blocks you see also get their information from a feed.
Modern browsers (we recommend Firefox 2.0) will ask you if you want to subscribe to a feed, and give you several options to do so including these portals, as soon as you click the feed link, but you may have to add them manually.
For iGoogle, click ‘Add stuff’ on your Google homepage, or ‘Make it my own’ if it’s your first change. Then click ‘add by URL’ (to the right of the search box at the top of the screen), and enter the URL of the feed you want to use. Google also offers an online RSS reader called Google Reader (see above).
For MyYahoo, click on ‘Add content’, then on ‘Add RSS by URL’ (to the right of the ‘Find’ button) and enter the URL of the desired feed.
If you have trouble with any other portal sites, email us and we’ll see what we can do.