Here is a sample of the code that will work best in 99% of your templates out there, placed in one of the side columns:

<div id="section">
<p class="blog-buttons"><$BlogFeeds$></p>
</div>

i was waiting for this for so long...

This, and "Read More. . ."
Howard,

You Rock!

Yeah! Thank you Howard! I just had major problems with my outside RSS feed this morning! Now no need to deal with them any more! I'm very excited. Motime rocks!

The RSS symbol is not at the bottom of our pages, and when I try to subscribe with bloglines it doesn't recognize that my blog (or ChefNeal's who I used as a back up try) have feeds. Must we do something else?

I see how I can find the RSS/Atom urls in the editing interface, but how do readers find them? Will an RSS button show up on the blog? (Haven't noticed it yet)

Thanks for the feature btw. I switched over to motime because it gives you a lot more for a free service!

jofrog: Perhaps you figured it out since you posted your comment -- I see your feed buttons just fine and Bloglines recognizes them without a problem. There's nothing else to do!

bhawk: Take a look now... I see your buttons, too.

I wish all problems were as easy to solve as this one... :)

Excellent. I guess there was just a lag in it showing up. After I activated it, the buttons didn't show up and I tried feedfinder and the links didn't show. Thanks again for the feature.

Activation should be immediate, in any case it depends on 2 factors:

1) activation in the control panel (Blogs->Blog Tools->Syndication) AND
2) the presence of the <$BlogFeeds$> tag in the template.

Bloglines isn't recognizing my motime feeds, only two that I set up through Blogstreet. As for the little indicator, I added that by adding this code:

type="application/rss+xml"
title="RSS"
href="http://syndication.motime.com/jofrog16/rss2.xml" /!>

You'll have to explain the bloglines in more detail. I have a bloglines account that I set up for testing and I subscribed to your motime feed using the normal procedure. It is possible that if you subscribed to your blog with another feed, Bloglines won't accept another feed for the same blog? I don't know that answer and don't have time to research it; it's just a thought.

Howard, I hate to keep dwelling on this, and I wouldn't if I thought that it was my problem and not a motime problem but I think that it is a motime problem.

If I go to bloglines and click "Add" and put in a motime URL, unless there is an outside feed that someone had added manually it says "No feeds were found. Please verify that the website publishes an RSS feed."

If I type in the feed url it does recognize it and the feed is being updated.

If someone goes to my blog and clicks on the "Subscribe with Bloglines" button it subscribes to the new Motime RSS feed.

Somewhere there is a problem that is preventing Bloglines, and possible other programs, including Mozilla, from recognizing that Motime is now publishing feeds.

i'll definitely look into it. I used the Add function to add your motime feed to my bloglines account and it recognized in automatically. Later, when I have some more time, I'll do some more testing.

Thanks for the feeds, Howard!

Howard, thanks for adding the feeds. I remember reading somewhere that mo'Time was hesitant to do this, but I'm very pleased you've changed your mind.

I'm wondering why the option to syndicate the full content of a post is greyed out. When will this be available?

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By the way, JoFrog - I was able to subscribe to your RSS2 feed using bloglines, but not your atom feed.

The URL's of the feeds, as in:
http://syndication.motime.com/the-motimes/rss2.xml

validate on:
http://feedvalidator.org/

There does seem to be an issue with Bloglines not seeing the Atom feed automatically. I have forwarded the issue to our specialist in this area to see what's up.

We are evaluating the bandwidth load that these feeds add to our servers. We do not want to risk slowing down the whole platform, so we are observing what is happening for now. We'll consider expanding the feeds based on our experience. Stay tuned!

Just checked out everyone who's commented here RSS feeds. NetNewsWire is reading them fine. There was an error with a time out of 60 seconds, after it checked the third feed, but read it on the next pass. I am not sure if this is due to my dialup or other reasons.
Is anyone having success with Firefox RSS plugins?

In checking out the feed for this site, I noticed the full postings--Howard, you dog! But I also noticed that my own RSS texts are quite full, while others seem to truncate after one or two sentances, or even mid-way in the first line--is there something specific which determines this, or is it because I'm such a wordy bugger?

woof woof.

They should cut-off after 200 characters in every case, unless you got connections around here...

I will check on this.

Aha. The character counter counts the html code contained in the post, too. So anyone using a lot of formatting, links or image placements at the beginning of their posts will be penalized. Plain vanilla text will get you more bang for the buck.

Hey, it's more fun attracting people to your actual blog instead of having them read everything in the silly reader!

I switched to RSS around Wednesday night....still no RSS/ XML buttons for my viewers to link to. I put up something to feed into bloglines but no seperate RSS button....what have I done wrong?

Hey DJGroovySlug, you need to add the correct tags to your template code after the bloglines subscribe button.

See the first comment to this post for the right code.

OFFTOPIC: if motime would implement save a draft feature, it'd be the perfect bloghost already. :D

Yes, it is something we are already working on...

thanks it works now.

Howard,
Just a thought, is there a way to syndicate the comments, or have an option to anyway? It would be great not to have to go back to every single blog and re-read the comments just to see if you can add something more interesting than the last time :*}

yup, there are ways... there are a few technical issues to work out and this kind of feature will probably be part of mo'time pro (or whatever), a paid service that we will roll out in a matter of months. The free service will retain all current features, don't worry!

In the meantime, for motime blogs you should be using subscriptions and flagging the "comments" checkbox. This is especially true for your own blog (although you can uncheck "posts", unless you sleep-blog).

If you are setup with your motime subscriptions, and keep your mo'IM* instant messenger open (or the desktop version, TipicIM, for the Windows-based power users), you will get real-time alerts when comments or posts come in. For checking what happened when you were offline, check out your digest (link works only if you are logged-in). It is the mo'time built-in news reader that does work with comments.

*The mo'IM, or browser-based instant messenger client, is "in the shop" as I write this, but will be back in a day or so. :-( I believe that you are on the Mac, as am I... so you must use the built-in IM or a free client like PSI (which I recommend). If you need more info on this, let me know.

Thanks, again Howard. There aren't enough hours in the day to figure this stuff all out. . .I'd never have thought to subscribe to my own blog--that should save a bit of time. Can't wait to see where RSS integration goes. Now if only Quicksilver integration. . . .:)

Excellent Howard as usual, I had loads of probs getting RSS to work then gave up.

Thanks