RSS feed tests

[ghisler(Author)]

Now the Total Commander forum also supports RSS readers - I have just added the RSS mod. It also supports RSS auto-detect, so if you use Firefox or similar browsers, you can add the Total Commander forum feed automatically. You can choose between a feed with all new messages, or only new threads.

Please let me know what you think about it, and whether I can improve it somehow.

Edit for new forum software: Please click on Smartfeed to configure all feed details!

[djk]

Yes, Maxthon at once has found the RRS support, before I've notice this post

[ghisler(Author)]

I have already made a little change: The topic titles are change from e.g.
Total Commander (English) :: Subject
to just
Eng :: Subject

So the forum titles don't take the entire space e.g. in Sage RSS reader. What do you think?

[djk]

2ghisler(Author)
I think the change should be easy to accept

I use Miranda for reading rss news. I use it for many servers and until now I had no problem with links in the news. But I can't use them for this forum news. I don't know why. I click the link and nothing happens. Moreover, if there is a link like eg. in your signature - it works correctly.

[ghisler(Author)]

What links do you mean? Can you name an example message where it doesn't work?

[djk]

Well, it's probably not your fault but it can be a bug in Miranda+rss+ieview plugins. I've checked all the rss services I subscribe and I've found that there is another one which also doesn't work correctly. Both services (I mean TC Forum and the another one) have in <link> fields adresses with a char: #. It's probably the problem. If I use history plugin in Miranda I can get this link working.

There is what I get from your RSS (last news):

Code: Select all

Eng :: RE: RSS feed tests
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=54059#54059
Author: ghisler(Author)


Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:16 pm (GMT -6)



What links do you mean? Can you name an example message where it doesn't work?
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Author of Total Commander


http://www.ghisler.com

The link in the second line doesn't work. it looks like a link but it doesn't work (for all messages)

BTW: There is a lot of free space beetwen the parts of the news (as you can see above)

[djk]

Do you think it's really necessary to put whole posts into news? Some of the posts are really long. Usually in rss news you get only subjects or only a small part of the news.

[Sir_SiLvA]

@djk:
I think the way it is is perfect imhuo
ie efb (http://www.essential-freebies.de/board/rss.php) is doing it the same way...
(remember this is a board-rss NO news-rss )

the worst way to do it is the heise-way
(http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf)

as I'm using RSSFeadEater for RSS
(www.babisoft.com)
on the left i have a list with all my rss feeds
right head - the headlines
right foot - the content

[tosbsas]

Could you post the exact url?? My reader needs my help there

Would love to have a feed - new posts

Ruben

[djk]

2Sir_SiLvA
Maybe you are right. It's probably a question of the reader you use and what you want to get. If you want to read the forum via rss reader it's of course better to see everything. If you only want to get an info that there is a new post and in which thread it's - it's too much.

[djk]

2tosbsas

"RSS (new messages)" - http://ghisler.ch/board/rss.php
"RSS (new threads)" - http://ghisler.ch/board/rss.php?t=1
"Atom (new messages)" - http://ghisler.ch/board/rss.php?atom
"Atom (new threads)" - http://ghisler.ch/board/rss.php?atom&t=1

[Hacker]

What is actually the difference between RSS and Atom?

BTW: I suggest separate feeds per forum. Not everyone needs to read posts in say, the German and the Polls forums.

TIA
Roman

[chriss]

hallo

good idea.

works fine with opera (8 beta2).

[corny]

Thanks, this is really great! I hope it doesn't use a lot of bandwidth

[Leif]

Try SharpReader (free) http://www.sharpreader.net/
Does need the .NET Framework, though.