Managing Feeds

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Control what feeds appear in Gregarius by subscribing and deprecating.

[edit] Feed Subscription

The most direct way to subscribe to new feeds is to paste it's URL in the Feed Subscription dialog, located in the Administrative section of your Gregarius installation.

• If you paste the URL of an RSS, RDF or Atom feed it will be directly added to your subscriptions.
• If you paste the URL of a website, Gregarius will try to discover whether that website exports an RSS feed:
  • If only one feed is discovered in the remote site that feed will be directly added to your subscriptions
  • If several feeds or several kind of feeds you will be offered a choice of which feed you'd like to subscribe to
• LiveJournal feeds might need special attention.

You can specify which folder your new subscription should be added to.

[edit] Deprecating Feeds

If you have your Gregarius publicly accessible from the Internet and indexed by search engines, you could find yourself in a situation where you want to delete a feed you have been fetching, but don’t want visitors from search engines to get a nasty 404 error when they hit an item whose feed has been deleted.

For situations like these you can deprecate a feed of your feed-roll.

Deprecated feeds:

• Won’t be fetched anymore when you update your feeds
• Won’t show up on the feed side-column

Existing items from deprecated feeds:

• Won’t show up on the front page
• Will still be visible when accessed from a search-engine (e.g. via a direct hit on the item’s permalink)
• Will still be returned by the search function

In other words: the content is there, it’s just hidden!

[edit] Deprecating a feed

• Click on Admin/Feeds
• Edit the feed you want to deprecate.
• Check the box that says 'This feed is deprecated, it won't be updated anymore and won't be visible in the feeds column.'
• Click on 'Submit Changes'. The feed is now deprecated.