Tweaks and Geeks

Something I learned today. The old (ancient) method of letting people subscribe to your blog on WordPress Reader has been killed entirely by the Jetpack team. It was unsupported, but still worked as recently as a year ago. I tried to make it a simple process of subscribing to my RSS feed at ravensweald.art (which is attempting to remove the social elements from that blog), but that workaround no longer works around.

So, I modified the site to include instructions on how you can add the story feeds to Reader manually. I wish they would not make it a multistep process, but alas, I’m not sure they really want you to follow a site operating outside of the WordPress.com/Jetpack ecosystem — which is a little silly when you think about it, if my suspicions are true.

If you have been enjoying Vengeance, My Heart, please consider following the steps outlined on this page to add it to your feed.

Failing that, consider bookmarking the site in your browser and swinging by a couple times a week: currently M/W/F — I may take a break this Friday to polish Episode 6.1 over the weekend. The episode is mostly ready, but I think I want to make another pass at edits before publishing.

Hope y’all are doing swell. Let me know if you encounter any issues with my instructions.


One response to “Tweaks and Geeks”

  1. lyndhurstlaura Avatar

    Nobody I know who isn’t on WordPress has been able to subscribe to my blog here, as far as I know; plus some of my fellow WordPress bloggers have been somehow unsubscribed from my site recently, and vice-versa. I’ve never had these issues with other, free, social media platforms, but given that I pay for this one I do expect it to behave better. 🙁

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