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Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:55:02 GMT
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:14:36AM +0000, Bill Ward wrote:
> Thanks - I've been using this to stay on top of LUGNET and it works
> great. I use NetNewsWire Lite on MAC OS X, if you care.
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> Couple things I'd like to see though:
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> * Put back the "by Author Name" in the title - the author isn't
> displayed otherwise.
Hmmm - never used netnewswire - but can't you have it display the author
tag? I've seen other readers do that, bloglines.com for instance.
> * Do more than 20 articles. I can't always check it often enough to
> stay on top of things the current way. I'd suggest looking at the
> number of articles posted in an average day and using that figure,
> or more. If that means a separate feed than ones used for browser
> sidebars, then so be it.
Looking at yesterday's stats[1] (which misleadingly, have today's date),
that's about 180 posts. Might get a bit too large, imo.
> * Eliminate some hierarchies such as off-topic and admin.statistics
> and loc.* from the feed, as they are of interest only to a limited
> few people. Perhaps offer those as separate feeds if there is
> demand.
I thought of that - it will probably be implemented, as a seperate
feed... But only after I have some way of tracking posts other than the
avid interface - otherwise, specialized feeds might be empty, if there's
a big discussion going on it one of the off-topic groups, for instance.
> * For FTX posts, use the HTML version of the post, not the raw text. I
> know that's a pipe dream, but I had to say it.
If the avid interface provided the HTML version, I'd definitely use it.
As it is, writing an FTX parser is no something I want to do.
> With these changes it would be a much more convenient resource. But
> even as it is, it's given me a way to read LUGNET again in a
> convenient fashion, and I appreciate that!
Glad you like it!
Dan
[1] http://news.lugnet.com/admin/statistics/?n=4511
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Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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