RSS feed for Reef Central (we need to develop it!)

[montanabay]

How come no one has done this yet?!?!

I looked into to seeing if could create my own personal Reef Central RSS feed, but it was beyond my CS capabilities, but I know there are some true hacks in BAR, considering our most common profession must be in IT/Silcon Valley related work!

Anyone have thoughts on how to do this? Or maybe propose it to a local RC Staffer? This would be an awesome feature, a live RSS to postings specific RC forums. Just think of how much more work we wouldn't do if we had this!

Cheers,

Josh

 

[otterpop510]

sorry for being somewhat non-technologically up to date.. what is RSS?

 

[BlueCorn]

This version of our software doesn't support it.

We do, plan, to move to a version that does within the next 18 months. That being said, RC gets over 8000 posts per day. That might limit it's usefulness.

Cheers

 

[sfsuphysics]

Yes what exactly does an RSS feed do? I've seen them mentioned around boards etc, but as per seeing one in action I apparently don't have the software to do it or something. That and I don't randomly go clicking links.

 

[CitS]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9868993#post9868993 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by beerguy
This version of our software doesn't support it.

We do, plan, to move to a version that does within the next 18 months. That being said, RC gets over 8000 posts per day. That might limit it's usefulness.

Cheers

only 8000?
heck i thought it would have been higher...

 

[montanabay]

New York Times example: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

heres a link to what it is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

I was thinking that each forum in RC could have an RSS feed, you can then subscribe the RSS feed to your web browser and it will update new content. Lots of news and blog related webpages have these so frequent user can see updates, click the link and follow to it.

I realize RC has limited resources, but if you did a RSS feed for each forum's top 5 most recent or top 5 most visited it might help cut down on server resources needed.

Cheers,

Josh

 

[funman1]

If RSS is done right like on digg.com then it does not matter how many posts RC gets in a day.

With digg.com I can setup an RSS feed for keywords only, or in certain fourms only, etc...

RSS is junk when implemented incorrectly, and it's a god sent when it's done right, and with the user in mind.

Not to complain too much but I'd rather have RC dump some cash into more servers / bandwidth.
To decrease the downtime (all the time!) and the sites SLOW response half the time. It's like I'm on dialup on this site. It's really lame some nights!

I don't know how you admins work the site all day??
Usually about 1 hour is all I can take on this site and then the slowness gets to me too bad, and I have to go surf elsewhere.
Posting a single line sometimes take 20-30 seconds!!

 

[andyman]

Or how about implementing a real backup solution for their database instead of doing offline backups. Sad part is I'm usually on about the time they do their backups.

 

[Reefugee]

Andy - Sadly, that's my warning that I should go to bed. :lol:

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9873269#post9873269 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by andyman
Or how about implementing a real backup solution for their database instead of doing offline backups. Sad part is I'm usually on about the time they do their backups.

 

[funman1]

hahah Mihn, I swear you are like a copy of me!!!
I do the exact same thing when I get that message.


hahaha

 

[Qwiv]

montanabay
RC needs to impliment RSS. It is a client provided feature, that a user cannot add/control.

 

[longlam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9874101#post9874101 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Qwiv
montanabay
RC needs to impliment RSS. It is a client provided feature, that a user cannot add/control.

Someone can always code a page scraper that looks through the pages of the BAR forum for instance and then create an rss feed based on that. It shouldn't be too difficult to code but I'd rather play with my fishies .