Feeds and Flickr Group
Just a quick note about ways of contributing to, and keeping abreast of current discussions and changes at FontStruct.
For RSS junkies there is a plethora of different feeds available. (If you don’t know what RSS is, take a look at this BBC page).
We haven’t actually put any extra RSS buttons on the relevant pages, so just use whatever standard mechanism your browser provides to subscribe. In Firefox for example, you’ll always see the orange RSS icon in the location bar when a feed is available. Click on it to subscribe.
So first of all there is a pooled RSS feed for all comments. Subscribe to this feed and you can keep up with what’s being said about all FontStructions. I like the empty entries in this feed — that usually means someone has uploaded some Artwork.
Secondly, there is a feed for every gallery page. Just set up the gallery the way you want and then subscribe. You can subscribe to a general feed like What’s New to see the latest Top Picks, or you can follow a particular category like Script FontStructions, or even track developments for a specific search term like “Western”.
If you’re particularly interested in one FontStruction or the discussion about it, every FontStruction also has it’s very own RSS feed. Just go to the respective FontStruction’s home page and subscribe.
Last but not least there is of course the feed for this blog.
Other than commenting on FontStructions, there are two places where you can participate in discussion on FontStruct. Commenting on blog posts like this one is one option, and there is also the FontStruct Flickr group. So far, people have used the Flickr group exclusively for sharing artwork made with, or related to FontStruct, but there’s also a fully fledged Discussion forum.
By Rob Meek (meek) | link | 8 Comments
The BBC is funded by a licence fee, not the tax payers
Comment by Craig — August 6, 2008 #
@Craig. Thanks, you’re right and that’s an important distinction. I’ve removed my flippant thanks to the UK tax payers (for paying for the BBC page mentioned above, because they don’t do so through direct taxation)
Comment by Rob Meek (meek) — August 6, 2008 #
Thanks, Rob!
I always wondered how you guys kept so on top of all the discussions and new fontstructions. And here’s a great way we can all use.
Leave it to FontStruct to motivate me to sign up for my first RSS feed. : )
Comment by williaum — August 6, 2008 #
Ditto on what williaum said. Very helpful in enabling our FontStruct addiction even further. ;-)
Thanks Rob!
Comment by geneus1 — August 7, 2008 #
Thanks so much for writing this up while I’ve been slacking away on holiday, Rob! I can concur on all these points. RSS really helps keep up with FontStruct developments, and I encourage anyone with general questions or ideas to use the Flickr discussion forum.
Comment by Stephen Coles — August 10, 2008 #
hey fontstruct team!
that comment feed is sooo sweet, but do you know how to set the comment count of the RSSfeet from 10 to a higher number, like maybe 20 or 30?
is it a browser setting or do you guys appoint the amount of shown comments??
greets from the ruhr area, germany
kix
Comment by kix — December 15, 2008 #
@kix
We set it to 10.
I use iGoogle for reading RSS. Somehow it manages to show more than 10. I guess Google must save older messages.
Anyway. I’ll see about setting the comment count higher the next time I update the site — Before the end of the week hopefully.
Comment by Rob Meek (meek) — December 16, 2008 #
thank you very much :)
works fine!
you guys rock
Comment by kix — December 17, 2008 #