Topic: RSS feed?
Started by: matthijs
Started on: 2/27/2005
Board: Site Discussion
On 2/27/2005 at 1:32pm, matthijs wrote:
RSS feed?
Does the Forge have an RSS feed?
On 2/27/2005 at 4:34pm, Clinton R. Nixon wrote:
RE: RSS feed?
It sure does not.
On 2/27/2005 at 7:10pm, matthijs wrote:
RE: RSS feed?
Okay, that was a short and to-the-point answer to a short question :) Why not, though? For people like me who subscribe to way too many fora, it could be very practical.
On 2/27/2005 at 9:25pm, Dev wrote:
RE: RSS feed?
I especially think, what-with the tagging we're evolving, that RSS feeds are really easy and implementable.
On 3/2/2005 at 9:36pm, Dev wrote:
RE: RSS feed?
I thought about it, and I'm sure I could make a sort of custom RSS feed (via some screen-scraping and similar hacks).
Is there a reason I should not do this, or some way this violates the spirit or social contract of the Forge?
On 3/2/2005 at 9:58pm, Paul Czege wrote:
RE: RSS feed?
One of the characteristics of The Forge is that posts happen within the context of conversations. Bringing them out of the conversational context, as discrete objects, seems counter productive.
Paul
On 3/2/2005 at 10:04pm, Dev wrote:
RE: RSS feed?
Paul Czege wrote: One of the characteristics of The Forge is that posts happen within the context of conversations. Bringing them out of the conversational context, as discrete objects, seems counter productive.
That makes sense; it's a good reason to not transmit every new post via RSS. (It still might be a good idea arguably, but I'll put that thought aside.)
Let me propose something different: what about an RSS feed that merely transmitted the titles and links to the newest posts at the Forge? "Newest" could be defined as "was not on the first page of posts in its forum within 24 hours", so encompassing both brand-new posts and posts that are only *slightly* old but have sparked up again in activity. This feed would link only to the thread, and not to specific posts (in order to keep it in context).
How about this, then?
On 3/2/2005 at 11:04pm, Dev wrote:
RE: RSS feed?
Paul,
By "conversational context", do you mean the posts within a thread? Or that multiple new threads also have a context of each other?