When we first rolled out the Member pages, we immediately got a request to provide RSS feeds. We didn't get around to that (RSS wasn't old and crusty enough yet for us!), though we did provide the nifty notifications on your member page, in email, and in the pager.
Well, shortly we'll be adding RSS as a way to keep track of blogs. Back in the labs, I have RSS 2.0 output working...it needs some refinement and testing, and hopefully will be out before too long.
Here's a question: Once RSS is available, should we keep the blog update listings on your Member page, or will those just be in the way?
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 Jul 9 2006, 12:16 am
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Jul 9 2006, 12:43 am
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Sinyc
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I'd like it to stay in the blog page itself. :)
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I'd like them to stay
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In the way :\
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In the way, I say! I think it would be fine if it were just the pager alert + RSS (or not even the pager alert part).
The thing about the notices on the blog page isn't so much that they're annoying, as much as it is that they're a hassle --- you can visit a blog post via the pager link, but the notice would still be on your blog. It's an annoyance to have to go back and click the link on your blog to get rid of it. | |
Definitely let them stay, for those of us who aren't logged into the pager 24/7 and don't otherwise need an RSS reader. I don't want to get one just for keeping up with blog posts... (Yes, I know about Live Bookmarks - I don't find them all that useful, since one has to remember to check them.)
But at the same time, fix the issue where viewing a post from a direct link (from the pager or an RSS feed) doesn't remove the notice for that post from your blog. That should keep both camps happy - you either get the notice one way or the other, and never both. If not, you could always add yet another option, to remove them from the blog page... :-) | |
If not, you could always add yet another option, to remove them from the blog page... :-) Aye aye! | |
I'm with Crispy. Keep 'em, or at least make it optional.
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I'm with Crispy. Keep 'em, or at least make it optional. Ditto. | |
I don't want to get one just for keeping up with blog posts...
Um, the purpose of an RSS reader is for keeping up with blog posts... I have wondered why a site doesn't get registered as being visited in some cases, and will have to look at that (it shouldn't matter how you get to it). | |
I used an RSS reader once, for about a week. It wasn't worth my time really... and they all look ugly, the sites themselfs are so much better to read them off.
I'd want the thingy to stay, RSS is completely useless to people who can't stand dullness, to be quite frank. | |
I hate the blog updates on my member page so get rid of them. >_>
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I hate the blog updates on my member page so get rid of them.
We'll probably make it a preference. I used an RSS reader once, for about a week. I avoided the whole RSS thing for a long time, but now I'm addicted. I can monitor dozens of blogs at a glance...unbeatable! | |
If you want a really pretty, AJAX-ed, brushed one, check out Google's. Since it goes easily into my Google homepage and it loads quickly on dialup, it's my preffered RSS reader.
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> Um, the purpose of an RSS reader is for keeping up with blog posts...
Heh... true. I meant BYOND blog posts though; I don't keep up with other blogs much, and I'd rather not have to install yet another piece of internet software. There are about a dozen sites which I monitor for updates, but most of them don't have RSS feeds, so I use a little freeware program called WebMon that checks the actual HTML page for changes. It ain't perfect, but it works. | |
I'm getting to the point where I'm highly annoyed with any interesting website that doesn't maintain an RSS feed. It cuts me off from them -- not unlike a modern company not having a website!
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I have wondered why a site doesn't get registered as being visited in some cases, and will have to look at that (it shouldn't matter how you get to it). I believe it occurs when you view a single post directly, rather than the website. Haven't looked at the code to see why, though. I avoided the whole RSS thing for a long time, but now I'm addicted. I can monitor dozens of blogs at a glance...unbeatable! I'd love to see a blog post that is sort of a tutorial on this. For now, I don't "get" RSS in that I haven't seen any utility in it. I know what it does and what it's for, but any time I've come across an RSS feed, it simply displays in my browser as a stripped-down web page. Why would I check the RSS feed of a page when I can get the same content as it was meant to be displayed? I think the missing link is in the aggregation of multiple feeds into one page. I haven't poked around to figure out how to do that, mainly because there's been nothing driving me to do so. Someone show me why I can't live without this! | |
