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Would you like to be notified when GFPID Chronicles has new content? Here's an easy way to set that up.

A quick summary

  1. Select any software, app, or service that is for reading RSS feeds.
  2. Within that, add our RSS feed address to subscribe to updates from GFPID Chronicles.
  3. That's it! You'll get notified.

Our feed address is https://gfpidchronicles.ca/feed (That page might look really weird if you go to see it in your browser, but your RSS feed reader knows what to do with it.)

If you like video explanations, check out this Youtube video that explains RSS.

You might like Lifehacker's explaination of why everyone should use an RSS reader.

More detailed directions

Here is a more detailed version of the information above.

Most news websites and blogs provide something called an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed, so that readers can be notified when new content is published on the site.

You can follow all your favourite sites this way. You could subscribe to the Gabriola Sounder, Gabriola Land & Trails Trust, GIRO, and GFPID Chronicles in your RSS reader. You would then get notified when any one of these sites has new content for you to read. What a time-saver: you would not need to visit all these sites every morning, just to see if one of them has updated. Instead, your feed reader would alert you to new content, and provide links to it.

1. Start by selecting an RSS reader

You might already have a software program that can read RSS feeds! For example, the desktop versions of the Vivaldi web browser and the Thunderbird email program both have built-in RSS readers. You might like one of those, or you might prefer a program that is just for RSS, which is likely to have more and better features.

There are RSS readers for your desktop or laptop computers:

Or you could use an app on your phone. There are RSS apps for:

Or maybe you would prefer to use one specific website to display the RSS feeds you follow. Try one of these:

Would you prefer to receive RSS updates by email? Try one of these services:

2. Subscribe to the feeds you want

The feed for new content on GFPID chronicles is this:

https://gfpidchronicles.ca/feed/

When you tell your RSS reader that you want to follow that address, you'll be all set.

3. Read the content

If you subscribed to our RSS feed using a program on your computer or an app on your phone, that program or app will notify you when we publish a new blog post.

If you subscribed to a web-based RSS reader like Feedly, you'll use that website to read your RSS feeds.

If you subsribed to an RSS reader that sends you updates by email, you'll get email notifications of new content.