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Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:58:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:38:44PM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > That link really didn't convince me of why this RSS feed is a value
> > add, I'm afraid, as it shows all the posts with no structure whatever,
> > in the order they appear on the server.
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> Great! That's exactly what it's supposed to do! If you use a news
> aggragator (which has nothing to do with NNTP, btw), you can now add
> LUGNET as a feed, and follow the discussion without having to "poll" the
> site, or have it flood your email. Seems like a good idea to me, but if
> it doesn't have any "value add" to you, I guess you'll choose not to use
> it.
I think there's a LOT of value add in RSS feeds, in general, but not this one,
not at this time, it's too raw.
I would want to see some stuff filtered out, somewhere. I'm keen to see if
someone can provide a mechanimsm for configurable filters, so, for example, I
wouldn't see any posts from locgroups I wasn't interested in, or didn't know the
language.
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| (...) Such customized feeds don't work well as RSS. I can certainly imagine some pre-selected filters, and a few seperate feeds - but having a feed generated just for a specific user won't work well. For the Peeron Sidebar though, it would. And it's (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I dunno - about 20% from my logs. How many of those users actually use IE6 to read RSS? Probably very close to 0%. As it makes really no sense to try to consume an RSS feed in a web browser. (Though mozilla does have some extensions that allow (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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