Talk:Ask Pony blogs/@comment-26050459-20151112185551

Hm. I've done some experimenting with RSS feeds, and we could use them to replace the active/dead column. This was the code I used for my blog:

http://ask-pink-pony.tumblr.com/rss|Date|short|max=1

There are three issues with this however. Firstly, you can only enter it via the Source Editor - this was a big issue with the new editor, but I just tried it on the classic editor and it was much easier to impliment. Secondly, there doesn't seem to be a way to display just the publication date, so it creates two lines of title, making each entry larger than it is now. (If anyone knows a way around this, that would be ideal.) And thirdly, I found that after editing the source in the new editor it added an additional space above the RSS feed which would reoccur every time I edited the source - this doesn't seem to be the case in the classic editor though

So here's the thing: The RSS feed date would show when the last update to any blog was, showing people 'how' dead something is and wouldn't require manual updating. Unfortunately this would show -any- reblogs, not just content updates, so a blog on break could still be seen as active. And as mentioned before, it would bump the size off all entries up to two lines. But the great thing is that all you would need to do is add "blog_name/rss" to get the feed and not even need to visit the page, for the adult themed ones.

I don't mind doing this myself, but I wanted to make sure anyone even wanted it first.