You do have a "subscribe feedster" button on your website, and their software is notoriously glitchy.
Posted by Anonymous at November 8, 2005 10:55 AMBy the way, 11 livejournal readers is an indication that you're a popular fella. Most bloggers don't even have a chance to be honored with a livejournal feed; the site is not known for its RSS capabilities.
Posted by Anonymous at November 8, 2005 11:00 AMRight, I have a Feedster sub button - but the behavior of the numbers being reported seems inaccurate.
There's some sort of syndication into LiveJournal, where an RSS feed can be mirrored in their system.
You have to be a paid user to add one, and only 10-20% of the active users know what RSS is.
Posted by Anonymous at November 8, 2005 08:29 PMAs someone with a huge LJ following, a couple tips for managing it:
LJ users can (and often do) leave comments in the LJ syndicated entry rather than on the host blog. Some popular feeds inspire hyuuuge discussion threads that the feed owner may never even see.
The easiest way to check for comments is to use the monthly view, like so: http://www.livejournal.com/users/infothought/2005/10 and http://www.livejournal.com/users/infothought/2005/11. [I update my bookmark links monthly.]
LJ only preserves syndicated entries for two weeks (which is why I included October in the links above) and then they go poof into the ether. So that should give you some idea of how often you need to check back for updates, and possibly save any comments you wish to keep.
If you ever want to know the identities of your LJ subscribers, paid LJ users can conduct directory searches. The URL to do so for your feed would be http://www.livejournal.com/directory.bml?fr_user=infothought. But again, that would only work for a paid user, so you'll have to make that request of someone else.
Hope this comes in handy!
Lis, thanks for all that useful info. But, again, I have all of eleven (11) LiveJournal readers, so I don't think that comments there are going to be significant.