Every time I try to read up on RSS feeds, my eyes cross. Is there an "RSS for Dummies" I could take a look at?
The most you should have to do is find a rss feed reader and give it a url. I don't know what your operating system or browser or mail client is, so I can't give you useful answers as to which one to use. I probably still won't know what to suggest even with that info, but someone else might. The settings available in each will vary of course, and some might not have a setting to limit entries, but re-reading your question, you just want to separate your hubski feed from the music in it anyway so that setting is probably not so important anymore. All you should need to do is give the feed reader a url. The page I linked to says this about tag feeds: So following those instructions, you'd replace 'hubski' with 'music' like so: In firefox, for example, you can go to that url and it will give you an option to subscribe. If you click on it, and you have the bookmarks bar enabled, you'll just have to click on the hubski icon in the bookmark bar to see what's in it. Though be warned this is making my firefox groan. Posts with the tag #hubski (replace #hubski with any tag): https://hubski.com/rsstag?id=hubski
Thanks, but I guess I don't see the advantage of using that RSS page and bookmark it when I could just go to the #music tag page and bookmark that instead. What's the difference between the two? They look the same, except the RSS doesn't have the Hubski features like Hide, so I can't hide the posts I've seen (which is primarily how I put new content in my feed).
I wasn't aware of your hide requirement before now, and I'm not sure if any readers have it. The firefox reader probably doesn't. Other rss readers will have different features and I know some have variations of hiding mechanisms. Depends how much investigating you want to do. I'm sure at some point the site admins will appear (Paging thenewgreen insomniasexx) and weigh in on whether hubski will have this kind of functionality in the near future. I don't use hide, or know how it works per se. Though looking now at #music which I don't follow, I do see a hide option which suggests you can hide stuff in tags you're not following.
Hiding is a bit of a carry-over habit from Reddit. Basically if I've seen a post, I typically hide it to clear away the feed so I don't get stuck looking at the same thing for a long time until more content rises. That way I can see older stuff, which, on Hubski much more than Reddit, is particularly useful, since we're encouraged to continue older discussions. But in any case, I've just decided that I've subscribed to a few music-related tags ( #metal, #punk, #musicforpabs, #hubskioriginalmusicclub), and I'll just occasionally check the #music tag separately and see what's new (and especially to see if there's any secondary I might be interested in following). I think that's work well enough for now.
We used to have personal tags: Which would have helped you solve this problem. You could have ignored #music.thenewgreen if you thought my taste in music sucked. Or you could have followed it if you liked my taste. This was a way to get more granular in your use of the site. But, we essentially did away with them:
Well, they still exist, and originally I was posting music myself under #music.CraigEllsworth, but I just removed the tag on the posts I had them on because the way the tag is written almost suggests it's my own self-created music rather than music from known artists I just happen to like. Think it's worth it to continue to use the personal tag to help others out, or is Hubski trying to phase out personal tags altogether?
No, we aren't trying to phase them out. I lied them. I like them.
Time to put all my personal music tags back on my posts!