Do me a favor…

Today I created a syndicated feed on LiveJournal for DargonZine, the electronic magazine I put out. People can now add dargonzine_feed to their friends list, and each time an issue comes out they’ll be notified of it by a brief post that will appear on their friends page.

I really need your help in making it easier for people to add the feed to their friends list. How can you do that? Easy! Just add dargonzine_feed to your own friends list. That’s all there is to it!

See, every LJ user is given a small number of “points” that can be used to subscribe to syndicated feeds. The “syndication price” of each feed is based on how many people are subscribed. The more people who subscribe, the less it costs each one.

But that makes it hard to start up a new feed, because no one will join until the “cost” goes down. That’s especially true for free users, who only get .99 points, total. Once you get over the hump of getting your first handful of readers, the syndication cost drops dramatically, and even free users can subscribe.

So please: do me a favor and add dargonzine_feed to your friends list today. You’ll only get one brief notification each month or so, similar to the ones already appearing in dargonzine_feed’s journal, but it’ll make a big difference in how easy it is for other LJ users to receive those notices.

By the way, if you don’t know what DargonZine is… DargonZine is a strictly noncommercial electronic magazine that prints original medieval fantasy stories that are written by aspiring Internet writers and set in a common milieu as a part of the magazine’s collaborative writing project. The longest-running electronic magazine on the Internet, DargonZine was founded in 1985 as a way for aspiring fantasy writers on the Internet to meet and improve their craft through mutual contact and collaboration as well as feedback from a representative readership via the Internet. New readers and prospective writers are enthusiastically welcomed. For more info, visit our Web site at www.dargonzine.org.