FAQ: Super Feed

[Yancy Lent]

What:

The super feed is a configurable rss feed that allows you to pick and choose what Planet Lotus blogs you would like to receive in a single feed.

Where:

This feed is specific to a registered user, there for everyone will have their own feed url.

How:

1. Log in to http://planetlotus.org/my/
2. Click on settings to configure
3. Submit and view your custom rss feed.

Feedback:

Please reply to this thread.

[rhsatrhs]

Hmmm.... re the comment in your email: "the rest should be self explanatory"...

After selecting various sources, I would expect to be given a URL to plug into my reader in order to receive the feed, but I don't.   Am I missing something?  Am I misinterpreting the goal of this?

[Yancy Lent]

Give it another try.

I messed up and used a tinyint instead of a smallint. I bet it error'd out behind the scenes. Your id is higher then the 127 limit for that data type.

[rhsatrhs]

OK.  Got it.  The URL could be made a little more prominent, though.  Still easy to miss. 

Working ok through the Google custom home page feed gadget.

[stuartmcintyre]

Good work Yancy.

However, for this to be useful to me, it has to supply the full post, not just a one line synopsis.  Will there be an option to enable this?

Stuart

[Yancy Lent]

However, for this to be useful to me, it has to supply the full post, not just a one line synopsis.  Will there be an option to enable this?

There are two different key balances at play here. I want to keep the number of entries in the feed at 100, this gives almost 2 days worth of coverage. I'm doing this because i have a client based reader and sometimes it can be off for a couple days so i would like it to sycn back and not loose any entries. The other ballance is that 100 entries as it is now with the 140 character of the post leaves the xml file produced at almost 100K. That is a lot of traffic, figure 100K for every poll.

So with that we have options, i could bring it down to 20, maybe im the only one using a client based reader or i can restrict that the number of blogs people choose... i actually dont' want to do that, but its worth bringing up.

The other balance is the amount of a post I'm serving up. I agree with you on your stanse that everyone should open up their feed, i just want to caution on the side of less info. Feel free to argue away on this point but there is something to be said about teasing.  Im sure over time, more data will be offered, for now i want to start with the tease.

[Yancy Lent]

Sorry; feed down for a couple minutes. <>

[Yancy Lent]

OK.

The feed is back to being operational. I was able to get the feed valid so if it isn't in the future let me know.

[jeremy_hodge]

Hey Yancy ... trying to add the custom feed from pl using the "feeds" app in the iPhone ... Won't load it because it says the feed is invalid...  I ran it through a feed validator, and thisis what I received:

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This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

    *  line 22, column 2: Ensure description precedes content:encoded (50 occurrences) [help]

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Not sure if that is whats causing the problem, but thought Id throw it your way.

Thanks

[danielperl]

Thanks for sharing this post. This is a very helpful and informative material. Good post and keep it up.

[abila]

There are two different key balances at play here. I want to keep the number of entries in the feed at 100, this gives almost 2 days worth of coverage. I'm doing this because i have a client based reader and sometimes it can be off for a couple days so i would like it to sycn back and not loose any entries. The other ballance is that 100 entries as it is now with the 140 character of the post leaves the xml file produced at almost 100K. That is a lot of traffic, figure 100K for every poll.




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[patpicos]

Under http://planetlotus.org/my/settings/, it would be nice for a select all/deselect all. I want to start will all people, then hide the spamming bloggers/foreign language ones.

[patpicos]

Also, the feed reader in lotus notes (852) is unable to read the feed.
Error: Unable to parse feed from host

[Bradc00]

I did no realize this thanks