Everything here has an RSS feed (just about) you can even subscribe to individual forum threads even. That's cool, but that still means I have to subscribe to EVERY RSS feed that I'm interested in.
How about the ability to customize a personal RSS feed? Let the user pick and choose which of the other feeds they want included. In fact, lets go one further and automatically add in a feed from a forum/moblog thread that a user posts in to their personal
RSS feed. That way users can follow threads that they are obviously interested in without having to manually subscribe to the feed.
I have never, ever seen that ability anywhere (at least using RSS). That would really put this head and shoulders above other community sites.
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LazyCoder
quit looking at me!
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Jeremy W
that blogging guy
I love the personalized RSS idea. As an old-school forum admin, I'd only thought of email notification. Sad, since I'm such an RSS junkie.
A personalized RSS feed would be ideal, as it would give 2 things:
1. (as you already mentioned) Add threads I post in
2. Let me "tick" threads, videos, moblog entries, etc and automatically add that to my personalized feed.
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GraemeF
GraemeF
The automatic addition of all threads that a user posts to is a brilliant idea. In fact you could expose this at a really simple URL which would include the username somewhere. Then you could easily subscribe to other people's posts as well
If only it were that easy on other comments feeds
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LazyCoder wrote:Everything here has an RSS feed (just about) you can even subscribe to individual forum threads even. That's cool, but that still means I have to subscribe to EVERY RSS feed that I'm interested in.
How about the ability to customize a personal RSS feed? Let the user pick and choose which of the other feeds they want included. In fact, lets go one further and automatically add in a feed from a forum/moblog thread that a user posts in to their personal RSS feed. That way users can follow threads that they are obviously interested in without having to manually subscribe to the feed.
I have never, ever seen that ability anywhere (at least using RSS). That would really put this head and shoulders above other community sites.
I am sure this is the next evolution of automatic RSS generation. I am interested to see if on Channel9 it can happen. Definetly worth checking out. -
Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde
Not as far-out as it seems... MSN Search results are available as RSS feeds (the epitome of customization), and a couple of sites that I work on also do.
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Charles
Welcome Change
What happens when you go to your profile, click on the XML icon in the Threads tab? (or the Watched or Replies tab, at this point it's all the same data. Need to fix that bug...)
So, we do currently support the Posts By User RSS feed notion, at least to some degree.
When fixed, you will be able to subscribe to any member's Watched threads or Replies or created Threads (as long as you are a member). Not sure why this stopped working. When I have time, I will look into it...
In any case, thanks for the feedback!
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Sven Groot
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite store on the Citadel.
Hey, I just noticed something. You're using a .aspx page to generate the RSS feeds. Would a .ashx not have made more sense? You know, reducing overhead and all that?
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Charles
Welcome Change
Sure, we could have implemented it that way (or rather, the CommunityServer people could have...). In fact, architecturally it's the right thing to do since we don't need any of the functionality of the class ASPX pages derive from... Not really high on my list of must dos, but thanks for pointing this out.
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Sven Groot
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite store on the Citadel.
Charles wrote:(or rather, the CommunityServer people could have...).
Ah, so it wasn't your decision. I wouldn't be surprised if the CommunityServer people made it that way because they either don't know that a) ashx pages exist or b) how to make them, considering VS2003 doesn't support them and there's practically no official documentation about them. Fortunately VS2005 is better in that regard.
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