Christopher Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 What would you guys think about an automated RSS feed that would make new topics with content from minidisc.org, gizmodo, slashdot + more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Slashdot | When RSS Traffic Looks like a DDoS He raised the concern that thousands (or even millions) of dumb clients could wreak havoc on a Web site.Combined with what you currently run? No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 I'm quite familiar with that article, and I put forth that in my mind before I started this topic. It's a completely valid point, and there is a slight chance that it would nuke the server to oblivion. I will note that I have made great strides with server response time [given what the server is] as of late and I have seen RSS/phpbb feeds in action [which you may want to look into before making such brash statements] and there really isn't that much I'm concerned about, as long as it's tweaked to our stature accordingly not to induce trouble. Would I implement such in our current state? Maybe. We are quite close to a server upgrade, so I would most likely do it then. We'll see. I need more feedback. Thanks for replying, regardless. Funny how fast it takes guest users to find out when a specific forum doesn't have post restrictions against them in place - which is what I want, here, at least in this forum. If you're a regular though, spend the 45 seconds to register. :rasp: [late edit - ah, know who you are now. Troll. :wink:] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 [late edit - ah, know who you are now. Troll. :wink:]Hmmph. Was wondering when you were going to check the logs. 'Bout time. Just saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystyler Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 I like trolls. :laugh: What is RSS, I read the article and it now makes even less sense, which is pretty hard because there was none to begin with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyther Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 It's a news feed system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 Bad Example™: image at ImageShack XML.com: What is RSS? Troll? Dear me, I think not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 What is RSS, I read the article and it now makes even less sense, which is pretty hard because there was none to begin with?In this sense, an automated bot would make topics [in a forum] based on new posts from the aforementioned sites. So would you guys want it? Feedback people, I need feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyther Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 Not really necessary at this point. We don't need feeds from slashdot (why would we?). Probably just MD.org, but there isn't really much MD coverage nowadays, so I don't see why we should bother for the mean time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystyler Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 I dunno, technology scares me. :wacky: If you reckon it would be alright, then go for it. :rasp: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 I use it on my forums and it is very cool. It keeps things lively, even if no one is on, and there is no end to how many feeds/sources you can have. kurisu: There is a small isue with the rss hack I use and the Categories mod, but I figured out a way around it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harper Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 I see there is a link on the forum homepage for an XML/RSS news feed. I upgraded to Firefox last week when I found the link on the forum and decided to investigate. I am very happy with Firefox. But VERY supprised when I tried using the above link to add MD RSS news to firefox and then to Thunderbird and both failed. Is something up? I mean it is not that hard to add a feed to Fx or TB. I have done so already except XML feeds dont work. I just thought that if this forum/site was going to support Firefox then it should have an RSS feed which works in it or am I missing something. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 The forum doesn't have RSS..yet. But you are stating that the feed for minidisc.org isn't working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maksee Posted December 6, 2004 Report Share Posted December 6, 2004 The forum doesn't have RSS..yet. But you are stating that the feed for minidisc.org isn't working?Yes, I encountered the same problem. I try to add RSS Feed by entering the link (http://www.minidisc.org/newsrss.xml) as a "Live bookmark..." and instead of the list of news topics I see "Live bookmark feed failed to load". I use FireFox 1.0, the same as of millions of new FireFox users joining FireFox the last two weeks :-) Max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harper Posted December 6, 2004 Report Share Posted December 6, 2004 The forum doesn't have RSS..yet. But you are stating that the feed for minidisc.org isn't working?Thats news to me :grin:, Because the link from the Home page says News as RSS/XML. So I was lead to believe that meant the link was for News as RSS/XML. But I could not get any RSS readers to work with it. Maybe the RSS should be removed from the link. But I would sure like to see RSS of the site. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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