Hello,
I have set up a planet where the goal is to have all the feeds of indie design/discussion blogs collected people deem interesting. I would call the current setup being alpha quality, as much of the needed infrastructure (self registration et.al.) is still missing.

You can see it here: http://planet.mausdompteur.de/

Of course, the whole people-deeming-interesting stuff is not automated in any useful way (I should work on that soon), and the list of referenced blogs and pages should be bigger.

If you know pages that should be added, PM me or write an email to [email]planet@mausdompteur.de[/email].

If you think this is a bad idea, please let me know. If you know how the planet could be improved, I am all ears (eyes, rather) as well.

Regards,
    Harald

So it is an Indie RPG blog link-site/reference-site?
or are you actually hosting these blogs?

and is it specifically blogs, or are there forums, articles, etc as well?

Have you seen these Squidoo lenses?

RPG Diaspora Lens
RPG Design/Discussion Lens
Game Mastering Lens

joepub wrote:
So it is an Indie RPG blog link-site/reference-site?
or are you actually hosting these blogs?

and is it specifically blogs, or are there forums, articles, etc as well?

Nathan wrote:
Have you seen these Squidoo lenses?

Oliof

Took a look at your site, seems pretty good, and given that the Squidoo.com is still in beta, and a startup, never hurts to spread out your eggs.. I thought of several good features you could add, First see if you can put a link to the main blog page for each RSS feed, 2nd add the names of the author's to the blogs if you can, as many people recognize peoples names from the community, but are not likely to know the name of their blog. 3rd, see if you could seperate out the pure theory/design journal blogs from the Stuff and theory Journals. Some of the feeds are thin on gaming talk and thick on personal/ranting/newsblogging stuff. Additionally, Smerf (Thomas) has a feed o' feeds page at http://www.thesmerf.com/, you can see what he is doing. Smerf is also talking aobut a central blogging/feed site setup, and apperantly Clinton R. Nixon has something in the works. But a nice independent feeds page never hurts. Oh, and your page is grabbing my feed from my Blog right, and therefore probably sucks:)

Best

Rob

RobMuadib wrote:
Oliof

Took a look at your site, seems pretty good, and given that the Squidoo.com is still in beta, and a startup, never hurts to spread out your eggs.

I thought of several good features you could add, First see if you can put a link to the main blog page for each RSS feed, 2nd add the names of the author's to the blogs if you can, as many people recognize peoples names from the community, but are not likely to know the name of their blog.

3rd, see if you could seperate out the pure theory/design journal blogs from the Stuff and theory Journals. Some of the feeds are thin on gaming talk and thick on personal/ranting/newsblogging stuff.

Additionally, Smerf (Thomas) has a feed o' feeds page at http://www.thesmerf.com/, you can see what he is doing. Smerf is also talking aobut a central blogging/feed site setup, and apperantly Clinton R. Nixon has something in the works. But a nice independent feeds page never hurts. Oh, and your page is grabbing my feed from my Blog right, and therefore probably sucks:)

Hey, good work, but:

1. I see lots of html-tags as, well, html-tags, unconverted to lay-out.
2. The site is too wide to fit into my browser window.

My screen resolution is 1024 x 768, and I'm using Firefox 1.0.7.

Hello Victor,
1) I haven't come around to sanitize the feed input. I see this as well. This is part of what needs to be fixed, but shouldn't be too hard.

2) I work on the same screen size and have the same problem. I am still looking to find the time to fix the theme to have a smaller font size for the articles.

thanks for the encouragement!

Regards,
    Harald

I have changed the theme and layout a bit. This should fit small screens better. People with larger screens should be able to adjust the font size easily.

Regards,
    Harald

And, on another note: The HTML fragments are in the comment feeds. I could either try to work out why that doesn't work as expected, or think hard about possibly not needing the comment feed on the site. I think they are quite valuable, as they do show what's said about the articles. Maybe that will become even more useful if I can find out how to show the author info instead of some vaguely related value (especially true for multi author blogs. I can't do anything about it if the RSS feeds do not show that info, though).

Regards,
    Harald

Victor,
the HTML Tags are encoded wrongly by the feed generators, i.e. the feeds do send [code]&lt; br &gt;[/code] instead of [code]<br>[/code].

I am afraid there is not much I can do about that besides asking the people who set up those feeds to fix them /-:

Regards,
    Harald

Hm! You can't put them through a converting script before your php-scripts (or whatever you use) add them to the content of your page?

Hiya,

It's time to take technical dialogues about the site to private communication, like private messages or email. Thanks guys.

Best,
Ron

Ron wrote:
Hiya,

It's time to take technical dialogues about the site to private communication, like private messages or email. Thanks guys.

Best,
Ron