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Emailing Subscription Forms Would be Awesome!
Feed My Inbox has been a great way for us to give our readers the ability to get RSS in their inbox from our website. But we'd also like to give people the opportunity to subscribe to an RSS feed via email. It would seem that we simply need to add the subscription form to an email message. Like this:
<form target="fmi"> <input name="email" type="text" /> <input name="feed" type="hidden" value="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/57043847.rss" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form>
But unfortunately, it says, "A valid URL is required" Any idea how we could email our form for people to subscribe?
<form target="fmi"> <input name="email" type="text" /> <input name="feed" type="hidden" value="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/57043847.rss" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form>
But unfortunately, it says, "A valid URL is required" Any idea how we could email our form for people to subscribe?
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Inappropriate?Hey Cody!
Thanks for the question. I can't really speak to our email subscription forms and how they would work in an HTML email. Email clients have good reasons for mostly not supporting forms over email, but that's another conversation.
I believe the easiest way to have people signup for your feed through an email is using a link. For instance, it would look like this-
http://www.feedmyinbox.com/?feed=http...@domain.com
Click that link and you will see how it pre-fills the fields for you.
You can always pre-fill the feed url and email by using a hyperlink with that format. That would be supported across all email clients without a doubt.
I just tested the feed in question and got an error from our system. We have noticed a few issues with twitter feeds over the last few days. We'll get this fixed up for you and I will post a follow-up here when it's taken care of. Thanks!
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Inappropriate?Hey Cody,
We deployed what we believe is AT LEAST a short-term fix for the twitter feed issue, and we'll be watching closely moving forward. Thanks!
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