#rss automation

[kamalkafir-blog]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ‘tortured’ in El Salvador prison, his lawyers say | News

Automated Wisdom Feed: Trending Astrology Predictions, Reiki Healing Tips & Tech News in English New court filings detail man’s ordeal after his mistaken deportation became a flashpoint in Trump’s immigration crackdown. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man legally residing in the US state of Maryland, whom the Trump administration mistakenly deported in a high-profile case in March, was…

[codeandcanvas]

You can (re)build a service

Due to the world’s toughest internet laws, running a service which posts the best graphic design articles in Germany is not an easy thing to do.

Things like self‑hosting, reposting on your own domain, and so on are absolutely out of the question, unless you are really keen on testing out the limits of your (legal) budget.

So we slowly started rebuilding our project grafikdesignfeed using freshrss, ifttt, buffer and free socials.

The logic is as follows:

freshrss gathers all kinds of rss‑feeds, we favorite the articles we think are cool, these get sent to IFTTT where an applet takes these favorites, sends them to a buffer account which sends these favorites to (as of now) our account on Bluesky and our account on X (we are working on more socials as well, but that takes time; not work, just time, so we are waiting) and that is the whole machine called grafikdesignfeed.

We are doing this because we want to provide a service to the German‑speaking part of the (not only graphic) design world, and because we really like building useful little machines like this one.

Who knows, maybe you like using our machines as well?

[manmishra]

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[conversionmill]

Discover the top advantages of using RSS-to-Email campaigns in email marketing automation. Increase engagement and save time with this powerful tool. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gPZq32 #RSStoEmailCampaigns #EmailMarketingAutomation #BenefitsOfRSStoEmail #KeyBenefitsOfEMAutomation #RSStoEmailAutomationBenefits

[debian-official]

i know you nerds have lots of opinions on this

what software do you use ask game

base distro

browsing on desktop

listening to music

watching video files (or streaming video ig)

text editing

code editing

mobile OS

mobile browser

chatting on desktop

chatting on mobile

custom system font

IRL navigation

notes and/or to-do

ebook/pdf reading

bonus option for hobbies

image editing

email

rss

file sync/sharing

terminal muxer

home automation

git hosting (or svc if ur a boomer lol)

any miscellaneous tool you can't live without

unrelated to the other questions what's the name of the plushie that's nearest to you rn

screenshots

[tempural]

Hi!! I wanted to say that I loved reading about your journey of creating a personal website. I'm still unsure between Vercel and Netlify. I have a small question to ask. See, one of the reasons I want to make a website is to archive drawings and journal/sketchbook. Would you have any tips for creating an area on my website just for the diary/journal, which has tags, files for each entry, etc.?

Bello!

Really happy to hear about your interest in websites! I want everyone to make their own site so I don't have to log into social media and get instant tummyaches ♥

Vercel vs Netlify: I think I settled on Vercel for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I just made a site on Netlify, then tested on Vercel, and now I have like 5 websites on Vercel so I just kept using it LOL. I'm sure a more tech-savvy person would know the difference - I think they have certain integrations with specific programs.

Creating a diary or journal with tags:

There's a couple of different ways you can do that, with different levels of work needed.

you got me yapping again:

This sadgrl tutorial might be outdated and may or may not work, but explains the process better than I can.

Easiest: make a journal on Dreamwidth, or another blogging site (wordpress??) that allows easy tags and RSS feed, and embed that RSS feed onto your site.

This requires almost no HTML set-up, and the easiest to organize tags, but you don't truly have the data on your own site since it's just embedded.

When I snuck into a web design class at college, this was one of the methods that the professor used for a blog within a portfolio site LOL.

Shit like wordpress is what a LOT of ~professional~ sites do for their blog section. They code it separately from the main site haha. It's the most popular thing, but not necessarily the best. And wait til you read on what the CEO of wordpress has been having meltdowns about... he owns tumblr too!

It's made with a tutorial for Neocities if that's what you use.

Medium: Set up zonelets.

It will require some HTML and JS editing, but will help automate making headers/footers for each page of a blog.

I've never used it myself, but I see other people speak highly of it.

HARD FOR ME CUZ I'M A GORILLA: I believe a lot of professional web devs will slap your face with their coding cock until you use a static site generator (SSG) to make your site.

You will need some coding knowledge to set up the tagging system since it doesn't come with it enabled by default. But it's made explicitly to be an alternative to big Static Site Generators which are...

It requires some more intimidating knowledge, because it's a lot of scripts that turn files that are not HTML/CSS/JS into plain HTML.

Also you have to use the command line, and that doesn't come with buttons that tell you what you can do. You have to copy/paste all that shit or memorize the code to 'dev build astro' and it all looks silly.

I've used Eleventy, and now am using Astro. Other people use Hugo or Jekyll or some other stuff with crazy names like Glup Shitto. I hate all these sites cuz none of the words mean anything to me. This is a common theme for me and tech. I don't know what NODES or CONTENT or ISLANDS are!!!

I had the most success attempting to learn how to use a SSG by downloading a template and altering it with github + VScodium. Here's the template page for Astro. You click on a theme you like, and it takes you to its github page. (If you don't want to use evil Microsoft stuff sorry. Skip this entire section.) Follow the instructions on the page for "forking" the glup shitto. When it tells you to run commands, I run those commands through the terminal window in VScodium. These tutorials never tell you what these commands do cuz they assume you already know. Usually those commands automatically install the files you need onto your computer, and create the final files.

You can see my wip here for a "tag system" that SHOULD show members of a web listing haha but I don't know what I'm doing and I have a reading disorder AND don't know cumputer good.

THEORETICALLY this will be the simplest and easiest way to maintain tags and files, because after you set it up you just have to write the "content" of the blog page. And you don't have to set up the header/footer ever again. I see the vision, and potential, but I am not there yet when it takes me 5 hours a day to figure out what any of the words in the documentation mean and I don't want to ask an actual tech person cuz they will be like 'obviously just press the Blip on the Repository and then Suck My Ass in the command line".

(side note I haven't updated fujofans in like a year cuz I'm struggling with this part to make updating easier).

Con: the final HTML/CSS code is really ugly if it's "minified", and a lot of themes use """"""professional"""""" CSS libraries like Bootstrap and Tailwind that I honestly think are ugly cuz that's what every fuckin' tech website uses to style their pages and make them look Professional and Minimalist with stupid code like style="500-w dark-gray-balls D-cup-bra" on every single element. Even Toyhouse uses Bootstrap. Eugh!

But maybe you're smarter than me and can wrangle these things better!

That was really long. Woops. I hope you can slug through this wall of text and find something helpful. Feel free to email me if you have any more specific questions. I may or may not be helpful.

If someone else sees this and has better suggestions for making BLOGS, please chime in. I'm begging you.

[deadboydetectives-ao3feed]

Welcome to the Dead Boy Detectives AO3Feed

**This post will be continuously updated. If you see it as a reblog, please check the blog for the most up-to-date version**

This blog automatically posts every* fic in the "Dead Boy Detectives (TV)" tag on ao3 using an RSS feed and a workflow automator (make.com). Posts are queued, so fics may take a while to appear on the blog after being posted to ao3. Only newly published fics will be posted, not updates.

I (the mod) manually add tumblr tags for ship, characters, rating, and archive warnings. Any other tags and warnings will be listed in the "additional tags" section in the body of the post, which is automatically copied from the author's tags on ao3. Please read the tags and use your personal discretion about content you want to read.

All of my fic posts are tagged with #deadboydetectivesao3feed -- good to follow if you want to keep up with fic posts, or to block if you don't want to see me in the main tags 👍 Full tag directory, including content warnings, is under the cut!

If I've mis-tagged something or the blog seems to otherwise not be working correctly, please feel free to send an ask or DM! Asks and DMs not related to this blog and/or its function as an ao3feed will not be responded to.

Hope you enjoy the blog! ✨

*Fics that are locked to ao3 users as well as fics posted to ao3 before the feed was set up (approximately 11 AM Eastern Time on February 5th, 2025) can't be picked up by the bot. Sometimes the bot messes up, too! I try and catch what falls through the cracks, but can't alway get everything. If one or more of these categories applies to your fic and you would still like it to be posted to the feed, you can contact me via ask or DM and I will post it manually.

This blog will not post fics made with generative AI.

Tag Directory (under the cut)

Content Warnings and Ratings

tumblr's native content labels will be applied to posts for fics rated "Mature" or "Explicit" on ao3. In addition, I tag for archive warnings:

#AW: No Archive Warnings Apply #AW: Creator Chose Not To Warn #AW: Graphic Depictions of Violence #AW: Rape/Non-Con #AW: Underage Sex #AW: Major Character Death

as well as ratings (using ao3's rating system):

#rating: G #rating: T #rating: M #rating: E #not rated

Other Categories

*These categories will be continuously updated as more fics are posted

Ships:

#catcrow #catwin #charles rowland x original female character(s) #cricketcrow #cricketcat / #catland #cryland #crystal palace x original male character(s) #demonland #edwin payne x simon mould / #blue cap / #hellbound #edwin payne x original male character(s) #the cat king x esther finch / #kingfinch / #pussymagic #montwin #nightfish #night nurse x death #palasaki #payneland #shelby kahn x maren #the cat king x crystal palace #the cat king x desire of the endless #the cat king x original characters

also: #gen fic

Poly Ships:

#crylandpayne #ghostcat #ghostcrow

x Reader Fic:

#tragic mick x reader

and: #reader-insert

Major Characters:

#charles rowland #crystal palace / #crystal palace surname von hoverkraft #david the demon #edwin payne #esther finch #jenny green #monty finch #night nurse #niko sasaki #the cat king

Side Characters:

#angie the sea monster #asha (dead boy detectives) #baby doll spider #brad (dead boy detectives) #charles rowland's father | Paul Rowland #charles rowland's mother | Mary Rowland #crystal palace's mother | Maddy Surname #crystal palace's father | Seth Von Hoverkraft #dagfinn #ghost postman #honda the cat #hunter (dead boy detectives) #iris (dead boy detectvies) #kashi (dead boy detectives) #litty and kingham #maren (dead boy detectives) #meatball the cat #maxine (dead boy detectives) #sa'al #shelby kahn #simon mould #the notary #tragic mick #twitchy richie

Characters from the wider DBD universe:

#dead patrol boys (Doom Patrol versions of Charles and Edwin) #death of the endless #delirium of the endless #dream of the endless / #morpheus #desire of the endless #despair of the endless #destiny of the endless #edwin payne's father #edwin payne's grandparents #edwin payne's mother #edwin payne's sibling(s) #hob gadling #johanna constantine #john constantine #lucifer morningstar #niko sasaki's father #niko sasaki's mother #the corinthian #the fates (sandman)

and: #crossover fic

Languages (as this blog and most of the fics being posted are mainly in english, english-language fics will not be specifically tagged):

#language: french #language: mandarin chinese #language: polish #language: russian #language: spanish #language: ukranian

Other Fanwork Categories:

#fanart #fanvid #music/lyrics #playlist #podfic

Housekeeping

non-fic posts will be tagged with #mod post, stuff about the rules/running of the blog with #housekeeping, and asks with #asks. Fics I post manually are tagged #manual post.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Tabs give me superpowers

Berliners: Otherland has added a second date (Jan 28) for my book-talk after the first one sold out - book now!

"Lifehacking" is in pretty bad odor these days, and with good reason: a once-useful catch-all for describing how to make things easier has become a pit of productivity porn, grifter hustling, and anodyne advice wreathed in superlatives and transformed into SEO-compliant listicles.

But I was there when lifehacking was born, and I'm here to tell you, it wasn't always thus. Lifehacking attained liftoff exactly 19 years and 348 days ago, on Feb 11, 2004, when Danny O'Brien presented "Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks" at the 0'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (aka ETCON). I was there, and I took notes:

https://craphound.com/lifehacksetcon04.txt

O'Brien's inspiration was his social circle, in which people he knew to be no smarter or better or motivated than anyone else in that group were somehow able to do much more than their peers, in some specific domain. O'Brien delved deeply into these peoples' lives and discovered that each of them had merely ("merely!") gotten very good at using one or two tools to automate things that would otherwise take up a lot of their time.

These "hacks" freed up their practitioners to focus on things that mattered more to them. They accomplished the goal set out in David Allen's Getting Things Done: to make a conscious choice about which things you are going to fail to do today, rather than defaulting to doing the things that are easy and trivial, at the expense of the things that matter, but are more complicated:

https://gettingthingsdone.com/what-is-gtd/

One trait all those lifehacks shared: everyone who created a little hack was faintly embarrassed by it, and assumed that others who learned about their tricks would find them trivial or foolish. O'Brien changed the world by showing that other people were, in fact, delighted and excited to learn about their peers' cool little tricks.

(Unfortunately, this eventually opened the floodgates of overheated posts about some miraculous hack that turned out to indeed be silly and trivial or even actively bad, but that wasn't O'Brien's fault!)

I'm one of those people whom others perceive as very "productive." There are some objective metrics on which this is true: I wrote nine books during lockdown, for example. Like the lifehackers O'Brien documented in 2004, I have lots of little hacks that aren't merely a way of getting more done – they're a way to make sure that I get the stuff that matters to me (taking care of my family and my health, and writing books) done.

A lot of these lifehacks boil down to making your life easier. There's a spot on our kitchen counter where I put e-waste. Whenever I go out to the car, I carry any e-waste out and put it in a bag in the trunk. Any time I'm near our city dump, I stop and throw the bag into their e-waste bin. This is now a habit, and habits are things you get for free: I spend zero time thinking about e-waste, which means I have more time to think about things that matter (and our e-waste still ends up in the right place).

There's other ways I use habits to make my life easier: after many years, I learned how to write every day:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/22/walking-the-plank/

For longer-form works like novels, I "leave myself a rough edge," finishing the day's work in the middle of a sentence. That way I get a few words for free the next day, meaning I never start the day's work wondering which words I'll type:

https://locusmag.com/2014/01/cory-doctorow-cheap-writing-tricks/

One of the most powerful habits I've cultivated is to have a group of daily tabs that I open in a new browser every morning. The meat of this tab group is websites I want to check in with every day, either because they don't have RSS feeds, or because I want to make sure I never miss an update.

This tab-group habit started before RSS was widespread, when most of the websites I wanted to check in on every day didn't have feeds yet, and for many years, this group was just a set of daily reads. But over the years, I started throwing things in the tab-group that I needed to stay on top of.

My daily tabs are in a folder called "unfucked rota" (they were originally in a folder called "rota," which got corrupted and had to be reconstructed in a folder I called "fucked rota," until I finally took a couple hours off and got it in good running order, hence "unfucked rota"). As I type this, "unfucked rota" contains more than a hundred websites I visit every morning, but it also contains:

The edit-history pages for four Wikipedia entries I'm watching;

Chronological feeds of my books on Amazon and Audible, to catch counterfeits as they are posted;

The parent notification portal for my kid's school;

The mileage history for the airline I flew on yesterday (I'll delete this once the flight is posted);

The credit card history for a card I reported a fraudulent charge on (I'll delete this once the refund is posted);

The sell-pages for three products that are out of stock (I'll delete these once the products are in stock and ordered);

A bookmarked newest-first Ebay search for a shirt I like that has been discontinued by the manufacturer;

The new-survey-completed pages for my last two Kickstarters;

The courier tracking page for an item being shipped sea-freight to me from Asia.

The tail end of this unfucked rota changes all the time, but as you can tell, it's got a lot of stuff that would be time-consuming to build a whole new system to track, but which has a web-page that can be easily added to a daily, habitual check-in and then removed when it's not relevant anymore.

Some of these things have email notifiers or RSS feeds, but those are too easy to lose in the noise. I generally delete email from ecommerce sites unread, since 99.99% of the messages they send me are unsolicited marketing nonsense, not the "notify me when this is back in stock" message I do want to see (same goes for my kid's school, which sends me fifty unimportant messages for every message that I must reply to).

Most of the internet is still on the web, which means it can be bookmarked, which means that it takes me one second to add it to the group of things I'm staying on top of, and one second to remove from that group. I get up in the morning, middle-click the "unfucked rota" item in my bookmarks pane, make a cup of coffee, and then sit down and race through those tabs, close-close-close.

It takes less than a second to scan a tab to see if it's changed (and if I close a tab too quickly, the ctrl-shift-T "unclose" shortcut is there in muscle-memory, another habit). The whole process takes between one and 15 minutes (depending on whether there's anything useful and new in one of those tabs).

Tabs, like lifehacks, are also in bad odor. Everyone stresses about how many tabs they have open. It's even inspired Rusty Foster's excellent newsletter, Today In Tabs:

https://www.todayintabs.com/

But this is a very different way to think about tabs. Rather than opening a window full of tabs that need your detailed, once-off attention later, this method is about using groups of tabs so that you can pay cursory, frequent attention to them.

In a world full of administrative burdens, where firms and institutions play the "sure, we'll do that, but you're going to have to track our progress" game to get out of living up to their obligations, this method is a powerful countermeasure:

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/02/02/david-graebers-the-utopia-of-rules-on-technology-stupidity-and-the-secret-joys-of-bureaucracy/

My little tab habit is so incredibly useful, such a powerful way to seize back time and power from powerful actors who impose burdens on me, that I sometimes forget how, for other people, tabs are a symptom of a life that's spiraling out of control. For me, a couple hundred tabs are a symbol of a couple hundred tasks that I'm totally on top of, a symbol of control wrestled back from others who are hostile to my interests.

This isn't how tabs were "meant" to be used, of course. It's an example of the kind of "innovation" that comes from users repurposing things in ways their designers didn't necessarily anticipate or intend.

This is what Jonathan Zittrain meant by "generative" technology back in 2008, when he published his incredibly prescient The Future of the Internet: And How To Stop It:

https://memex.craphound.com/2008/07/22/zittrains-the-future-of-the-internet-how-to-save-the-internet-from-the-internet/

For Zittrain, "generativity" was the property of some technologies that let its users generate new, useful tools and solutions for themselves (this is very different from "generative AI!")

Zittrain described how "curated" computing systems, like mobile devices that relied on apps that couldn't be adapted by their users, were dead ends for generativity. 15 years later, the dismal world of apps has proven him right:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/24/everything-not-mandatory/#is-prohibited

To the extent that "lifehacking" is about doing more, rather than being more deliberate about what you accomplish, it can be harmful. I am not immune to the failure modes of lifehacking:

https://locusmag.com/2017/11/cory-doctorow-how-to-do-everything-lifehacking-considered-harmful/

But overall, using tabs as something I close, rather than something I open, is a source of comfort and calm for me. For one thing, ripping through a group of tabs every morning means that I don't have to worry about missing something if I go too fast. I'll get another chance tomorrow:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/27/probably/

Decades ago, Dori Smith dubbed her pioneering blog her "#Backup Brain":

https://web.archive.org/web/20020120231027/http://www.backupbrain.com/

At their best, our systems – be they physical, like a spot on the counter where the e-waste goes, or digital, like a tab-group – are "congitive prostheses." They allow us to move important things from the highly contested, busy and precious space between our ears and out there into the world:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/

Like those lifehackers that O'Brien studied for his presentation in 2004, I confess to feeling a little silly about telling you all about this. For me, this habit of decades is so ingrained that it feels trivial and obvious. And yet, when I look at people in my life struggling to stay on top of a million nagging administrative tasks that could be easily watched through a morning's flick through a tab-group, I can't help but think that maybe some of you will find a useful idea or two in my unfucked rota.

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/25/today-in-tabs/#unfucked-rota

[goblin-social]

Hi there, Goblin is still alive even if I'm not posting too much in here! Today, I bring you a philosophical question.

As you may have read here before, I'm working in integrating Goblin and tumblr tightly. Right now, you can subscribe to tumblr blogs, as long as the blog has an open RSS feed. Basically, Goblin acts as RSS reader of tumblr. But to do so, I'm creating automated accounts mirroring tumblr blogs, so the post can show the avatar, etc, and it has been brought to my attention that may not be well received.

So, tumblr, I ask you:

Let me explain each option a little bit more:

No-follow: Well, pretty self-explanatory: You shouldn't be able to read any update from tumblr blogs on Goblin

Follow but no-interact: You can follow tumblr blogs feeds in Goblin, but those post don't allow any of the usual interactions (you can't reblog, comment, like)

Follow and interact, but only on mirrored accounts: You can _always_ follow tumblr blogs, but you can only interact with them if your goblin account is connected to a tumblr account, so anything you do in a tumblr-originated post is also done in tumblr using your tumblr account.

Follow and interact, but all the interactions get notified to the tumblr user via a bot tumblr account that comments on the original post linking to the shared goblin post and telling the OP what just happened.

Follow and interact freely: Work fully as it works on any other RSS reader. Once the post is on the blog RSS feed, anyone can read that post from any RSS reader and interact 'locally' with it (For example, you can follow a tumblr blog from WordPress.com reader and like the post there, or reblog it to your WordPress blog, without OP even knowing about it)

[sexhaver]

I’m inclined to agree with you about AI image generation but I was reading about Google’s currently-in-development program that just seems like it’s AI generated plagiarism:

“To produce articles, publishers first compile a list of external websites that regularly produce news and reports relevant to their readership. These sources of original material are not asked for their consent to have their content scraped or notified of their participation in the process—a potentially troubling precedent, said Kint.

When any of these indexed websites produce a new article, it appears on the platform dashboard. The publisher can then apply the gen AI tool to summarize the article, altering the language and style of the report to read like a news story.”

Idk in general I don’t see any positive developments coming out of LLMs beyond mild novelty and this specifically seems like using the technology to straightforwardly do plagiarism, minus any meaningful transformation or sleight of hand

yeah this is definitely my least favorite part of AI in general, the gradual shitting up of google search results. and just like with AI image generators being used to crib a specific artist's style, this use of AI is tricky to figure out a response for because it fundamentally doesn't create any "new" kind of offense (like those AI image gens used to "undress" pictures of women), it just massively lowers the barrier of entry for an existing one.

the parallels between these "plagiarism summarizers" and warehouse automation robots is actually kind of funny now that i think about it. in a vacuum, they both save human labor: summarizer-bots could just be used on a personal level to give people a summary of recent articles from sites that they personally choose to follow like an RSS Feed (remember RSS Feeds? oh my god im so old), and automated storage and retrieval systems literally exist to make warehouse work easier. and yet because we live in a world where capitalism demands websites make their money off ad revenue and warehouses make their money off working their employees to the bone, summarizer-bots are used to shit up search results with autocompleted drivel that reads like the intro to a recipe on a cooking blog, and ASRSs are used to fire half of a company's workforce while doubling production quotas on the remainder. there's so much potential for robotics to help humanity as a whole but all the money rn is funneled into getting robots to either cut corporate costs or kill people

[kamalkafir-blog]

Russia says it controls Luhansk as US halts some weapons pledged to Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war News

Automated Wisdom Feed: Trending Astrology Predictions, Reiki Healing Tips & Tech News in English The Russian occupation governor of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region claimed it had been entirely conquered on Tuesday, making it the first of the four eastern Ukrainian regions Russia has annexed that it fully controls. “Just a couple of days ago, I received a report that the territory of the Luhansk…

[utopicwork]

Finished the site automator for utopic.work besides integrating my rss feed generation script, should be live by Monday

[masterwords]

are you seriously recommending a fic based on the telegram rape groupchat with 70,000 men in it on your hotchgan blog?? i get that "fiction is fiction" and people will read and write about anything, but to use a very real and very horrifying situation like that as a plot point in an a/b/o fic is disgusting and tasteless. tag your shit with the appropriate trigger warnings or keep it out of the tags period.

I am not recommending anything that comes across that blog.

It is an automated RSS feed that pulls directly from AO3 when fics are posted using the Hotch/Morgan tag, not personal recs from me. Cool your jets.

I don't live online, and I only check that blog once or twice per week to make sure nothing skeevy is flowing through, it isn't exactly a highly active tag. A simple mention to check the feed and delete the post or change the tags would suffice.

Done and done, by the way.

For the record: no, I don't rec that fic. In fact I personally wouldn't rec half of the fics posted there based on what I like to read & write, but fiction is fiction so I started that feed so people wouldn't miss fics they might want to see regardless of my personal taste.

Coming for my jugular without actually understanding how the blog works is pretty wild, dude. You don't even know me. You could have just asked nicely.

[anne-is-ominous]

A Phoenix is NOT easily defeated!

So, I announced a few days ago that I was suspending MediaMiner posts of Phoenix: Reignited for two main reasons:

Their editor breaks formatting for things like italics

I get no notifications when I get a comment

Well, the other day I noticed Fanfiction.net was also breaking formatting, and I found a fix for it. I thought, what the hell, I'll see if that fixed formatting works on MediaMiner, and lo! It does! So, that solves one of the two issues that cost me the platform. But… what about the other? If I could solve that…

Well, it turns out MediaMiner doesn't have a true comment system; it backports comments to a forum. I found the URL to the actual forum. I then wrote a web scraper that sorts it by most recent, polls the first three pages (the 90 most recently-commented chapters, and currently Page 1 goes all the way back to August, so that should be plenty safe.) It parses every thread looking for Phoenix: Reignited and if it finds one, yanks out all the relevant data. It then dumps that into an RSS feed on ThePhoenixSaga.com, and then I set up a free RSS monitoring automation on Zapier to check that RSS feed and email me if any new items are detected.

Like. A. Bawss. EDIT: For any other fanfiction graybeards out there who still have stuff on MediaMiner, I open sourced the scraper script. Enjoy it! https://github.com/AnneIsOminous/mediaminermonitor