More Housekeeping: Another RSS Feed Update & The "Read Full Post" Link

Let us start with a word of advice to any potential internet weblog authors out there - stay far away from "Feed Burner." Perhaps we just aren't well enough versed in this RSS feed business, but all "burning our feed" did was cause trouble. We have had people emailing us about feeds not updating, being delayed, and generally acting funky. For that reason, we have deleted our "Feed Burner" feed, and have decided to stick with the default blogger feed.

If you are subscribed to a broken feed right now, you probably aren't reading this. However, if you somehow come across this, please delete that stupid "Feed Burner" link from your RSS reader, and subscribe here:

http://newstadiuminsider.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

All links on the main page of the blog have been updated to reflect this change, for anyone just now stumbling across NSI.

On to other, less frustrating items. You may have noticed that we have introduced a link within each post that says "read full post." Blog experts refer to this as the "jump." Essentially, it allows us to put the most important part of the new post on the main page of the blog, but the full post on a separate page to prevent clutter. One relative who shall remain nameless pointed out the annoyance that some of our more wordy posts create. "Why do I have to scroll so much on your website," he asked. Hopefully the "read full post" link will mean less scrolling for those without scroll-wheels on their mouse. Yanks26' "NSI Minor League Report" feature abridged boxscores for all of the minor league games "after the jump," so be sure to click that link.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled debate regarding Nick Swisher laughing while he was pitching a scoreless inning in an unfortunate blowout loss. It sucks to get beat down by a division rival, but Jorge should probably calm down a bit, no? Read the full post, after the jump

Housekeeping Note: Introducing a New Commenting System

At some point today, we realized that the built-in blogger commenting system did not have IP tracking functionality built it. We certainly don't want to collect IP addresses, but we plan on running some contests this season based on the comments, and want to prevent cheating by tracking IP addresses. We are well aware of IP masking, but it is doubtful that any of our contests will be worth all of that trouble.

That being said, we proudly present the new comments. It will now be necessary to register a username of some sort which hopefully won't be too much of an inconvenience to anyone. The website that runs the new commenting system "Intense Debate" actually claims that their commenting system ENCOURAGES conversation on blogs, but then again, why wouldn't they claim that? It should be noted that the old comments will remain on old posts, and you will still use the old commenting system if you decide to comment on those posts. Everything from this point forward will utilize the new system.

In any case, this means that everyone from myself to Fake IPK to the commenter actually named Anonymous will have to create a new username. Just get it out of the way on this post, and why not introduce yourself? We have seen a considerable increase in traffic and in comments lately, so now is as good of a time as ever to start building a Stadium Insider community.

Just keep in mind, if we ever see the first comment on a post say "first" and nothing else, we will retire from blogging. Also, it will automatically ban your IP address from ever winning a New Stadium Insider contest.

Along those lines, look out for the announcement of our first ever contest in the coming weeks. The prize will be a pair of Grandstand tickets for the Yankees vs. Orioles on May 20. No, they are not great seats, but yes you will be able to check out the new Yankee Stadium. Details will follow, so be sure to bookmark the blog, add us to your RSS reader, and follow us on Twitter for all of the latest news. Read the full post, after the jump

REMINDER: Housekeeping Note - The RSS Feed For New Stadium Insider

Last week, we switched up the RSS feed for the site for technical reasons. We were under the impression that people previously subscribed to the feed would remain subscribed, but alas there was a setting in blogger that we forgot to switch.

Please click here to subscribe to the new RSS feed. The RSS feed link at the top of the page is always there for you as well. If you aren't using RSS feeds and Google Reader, you aren't getting the most out of the internet.

Thanks to Jay from Fack Youk and Mike from River Ave. Blues for pointing out the feed issue.

Talk about it in the Stadium Insider Forums!

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