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How to Customize Your How-To Geek RSS Feeds (We’re Changing Things)
If you’re an RSS subscriber, you’ll soon notice that we’re making a few changes. Why? It’s time to simplify our system, while providing you a little more control over which articles you want to see.
The point, of course, is that people like different things, and that’s OK. What’s not so great is getting complaints—Linux users are always whining about Windows posts, and Windows users are whining when we write Linux posts.
It’s also worth pointing out that if you aren’t interested in a post—you don’t have to click on it to read it. This is probably fairly obvious to reasonable people.
The New Feeds
Here’s the new set of feeds you can subscribe to. We’ll probably add more fine-grained feeds in the future, as we get some more things straightened out.
- Everything we publish (news, how-tos, features)
- Just the Feature Articles (the absolute best stuff)
- Just News (ETC) Posts
- Just Windows Articles
- Just Linux Articles
- Just Apple Articles
- Just Desktop Fun Articles
You can obviously subscribe to one or many of them if you feel like it.
The Once Daily Summary Feed!
If you’d rather get all your How-To Geek in a single dose each day, you can subscribe to the summary feed, which is pretty much the same as our daily email newsletter. You can subscribe to this summary feed by clicking here.
Note: we’re working on a lot of backend changes to hopefully make things a little better for you, the reader. One of the things we’ve consistently had feedback on is the comment system, which we’ll tackle a little later. Also, if you suddenly saw a barrage of posts earlier… oops! Our mistake.
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Comments (13)
Programmer by day, geek by night, The Geek, also known as Lowell Heddings, spends all his free time bringing you fresh geekery on a daily basis. You can follow him on Google+ if you'd like.
- Published 02/16/11
Now why isn’t the top bar like the picture?
This site really needs a redesign.
Great update. This way you can receive articles meant exactly for you.
I’ll go for the “Everything we publish” feed, I don’t want to miss any fun on this site.
Thanks, this is perfect. I was actually thinking about unsubscribing due to the volume of your feeds about 5 minutes before I saw this post. Well timed, HTG. Well timed.
What will the feed look like for those who keep subscribing to the old feed?
oh no ! I don’t like many feed. Only one is the best way imo !
@Kirk
The everything feed http://feeds.howtogeek.com/howtogeek is what I’m currently subscribed to for the how-to-geek, so you should get everything if you don’t change your subscription.
I like the way “The How-To Geek” is looking upwards towards the ‘subscribe’ button :D
@Hatryst Good catch:)
@Nicklas as long as the site changes dont screw with its fan base. lifehacker.
I like to see everything so leaving the default feed. :)
I confess that i like when i can read the Full article on my RSS reader… i cry coz isnt possible in this site
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