{"items": [{"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/109145929828138109979", "anchor": "gp-1360389373384", "service": "gp", "text": "or you can just \"Sort by oldest\" in Google Reader. That's how I view webcomic feeds, where you certainly want to read them in chronological order.", "timestamp": 1360389373}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1360419391458", "service": "gp", "text": "@Chris\n\u00a0Most feeds I see don't go back for the whole time. \u00a0Only the last 20 posts or so.", "timestamp": 1360419391}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/109145929828138109979", "anchor": "gp-1360429062660", "service": "gp", "text": "@Jeff Kaufman\n\u00a0- Ahh! I see, I thought your focus was the reversal rather than the completeness of the resulting feed. Then that is indeed a cool feature.", "timestamp": 1360429062}, {"author": "Ethan", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/105507155670392231828", "anchor": "gp-1360440611605", "service": "gp", "text": "This is a good idea.\n
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\nI'd probably prefer a reverse RSS feed that yields two additional old posts every time a new post is produced. \u00a0Otherwise I'd never catch up!\n
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\nThough actually now I'm starting to think I'd like to have a blog production system where the system chooses to publish my posts (semi)independently from my writing them. \u00a0That way the system could spread out my posts evenly over time even if I write in bursts every few weeks. \u00a0\n
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\nAnd if I'm not writing often enough, it would just start publishing my drafts and notes-to-self-for-future-posts, to remind me not to be a perfectionist.", "timestamp": 1360440611}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1360446544621", "service": "gp", "text": "@Ethan\n\u00a0\"it would just start publishing my drafts and notes-to-self-for-future-posts, to remind me not to be a perfectionist.\"\n
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\nI don't know anything that does this, but I like it.\n
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\n\"I'd probably prefer a reverse RSS feed that yields two additional old posts every time a new post is produced.\"\n
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\nI've also thought about writing ones that can go post-a-day, post-a-week etc, but that would require a dynamic website. \u00a0(Mine is all pre-generated.)\n
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\n\"Otherwise I'd never catch up!\"\n
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\nI can't tell if your \"never\" is literal. \u00a0If someone subscribes to my reverse and forward posts today, after I make another 740 posts they'll be caught up.", "timestamp": 1360446544}, {"author": "Ethan", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/105507155670392231828", "anchor": "gp-1360447052203", "service": "gp", "text": ">> \"Otherwise I'd never catch up!\"\n
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\n> I can't tell if your \"never\" is literal. \u00a0If someone\n
\n> subscribes to my reverse and forward posts\n
\n> today, after I make another 740 posts they'll\n
\n> be caught up.\n
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\nSorry, I forgot to mention that for some reason I feel uncomfortable simultaneously subscribing to both forward and reverse feeds. \u00a0My preference would be to find a blog, notice that I like it, subscribe to its forward feed long enough for it to Become A Thing in my brain where it's important to catch up; then suspend my subscription to the forward feed, subscribe to the reverse feed, and proceed from the beginning of time until I reach the present (including re-reading any posts I'd already read, because by this point I'll be convinced I didn't have enough context the first time around to fully appreciate them); and then I'd swap feeds again.", "timestamp": 1360447052}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1360447494615", "service": "gp", "text": "@Ethan\n\u00a0\"I feel uncomfortable simultaneously subscribing to both forward and reverse feeds\"\n
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\nI could make the reverse feed switch into a forward feed once you get back to the beginning of time. \u00a0Though right now my feeds wouldn't know which forward post to start you at because they don't know when you started reading a particular reverse feed.", "timestamp": 1360447494}]}