1. Today was a spooky MetaFilter day, with long waits and timeouts and 404 announcements, (at least for me). Once I saw a huge bleached version of the sidebar, which might have been due to:
2. The new RSS feed title feature mentioned here and here, which was mentioned by Matt here. Could someone please explain the significance and advantages of this new feature to those not so in-the-know?
As timeistight mentioned in a previous RSS request thread: "I'm having a hard time getting my head around this RSS/RDF/XML stuff. Can anyone point me at an interesting use of the MetaFilter feed?" posted by hama7 at 3:24 AM on November 14, 2002
I'm interested too, as a non-techie Mefite.
[BTW, the 'more outside' goes to a hosed geocities site. Whats that about?] posted by dash_slot- at 4:07 AM on November 14, 2002
Once I saw a huge bleached version of the sidebar, which might have been due to:
Oooh. Me too, me too!
[BTW, the 'more outside' goes to a hosed geocities site. Whats that about?]
It's a brilliant ironic comment by our brother in arms, Hama7. Instead of linking to an actual image of the outside, which you, in your virtually-dependent world, expected, he linked to a broken site as a way of saying "Hey, fuckwit, outside doesn't mean an actual picture of the outside." It was his personal 404 on your life. Yeah, you just got 404'd. It's like being property of the bangbus, only, you know, not.
Or maybe the link got over-used. I dunno ;) posted by The God Complex at 4:31 AM on November 14, 2002
It's like being property of the bangbus, only, you know, not.
I prefer the sinister cousin, but your meta-po-mo interpretation does float the relative boat.
Also, where the user name and user number used to appear on the browser bar, these days it does not. posted by hama7 at 5:36 AM on November 14, 2002
Or sometimes it does, as I see now. Help! posted by hama7 at 5:40 AM on November 14, 2002
In preview it shows a name, outside of preview it shows the user number.
Matt explained it awhile ago but I can't remember where. posted by The God Complex at 5:59 AM on November 14, 2002
Crap. I meant to link an update to Stan Chin's [more outside] quip. I am sorry. posted by hama7 at 6:16 AM on November 14, 2002
[BTW, the 'more outside' goes to a hosed geocities site. Whats that about?]
The Geocities server apparently won't serve an image if you try to fetch it with a referrer from an outside site (in other words, by following a link). If you cut and paste the URL, or just go to the Address field and hit Enter again, you should see the image. posted by staggernation at 7:05 AM on November 14, 2002
1. The server was tanking left and right yesterday, and had to be restarted a zillion times, but checking the error logs, I couldn't find the source of the problem. It usually happens under heavy traffic loads, so maybe that was it.
2. RSS is a syndication format that is widely deployed and understood by apps. So if I put out an xml representation of the front page in a standard format, you can reproduce the contents of the homepage on your desktop, your personal site, wherever you want (that's what syndication is all about).
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2. The new RSS feed title feature mentioned here and here, which was mentioned by Matt here. Could someone please explain the significance and advantages of this new feature to those not so in-the-know?
As timeistight mentioned in a previous RSS request thread: "I'm having a hard time getting my head around this RSS/RDF/XML stuff. Can anyone point me at an interesting use of the MetaFilter feed?"
posted by hama7 at 3:24 AM on November 14, 2002