Are there separate RSS feeds available for Ask mefi and MeTa?

September 30, 2004 2:23 PM

Are there separate RSS feeds available for Ask mefi and MeTa? And if no, why not? I've found the main MeFi feed, but nothing else.

Thanks.
posted by blindcarboncopy to Feature Requests at 2:23 PM (9 comments total)

Auto discovery is your friend.
posted by riffola at 2:40 PM on September 30, 2004

Search Metatalk is your other friend, and frankly he's a bit pissed that you haven't called him lately.
posted by Galvatron at 3:33 PM on September 30, 2004

Well, I can't autodiscover a MeTa feed, and searching for RSS brings up just about every post.
posted by bonaldi at 5:31 PM on September 30, 2004

http://ask.metafilter.com/rss.xml is the Ask RSS feed.

I am actually your friend.
posted by jessamyn at 6:33 PM on September 30, 2004

bonaldi, Search Metatalk (threads only) for keyword rss yields only 35 posts, four of which address exactly the questions asked here.
posted by Galvatron at 8:07 PM on September 30, 2004

I too am your friend. There is no MetaTalk RSS feed, as the existence of one might encourage posting to MetaTalk.
posted by gleuschk at 8:07 PM on September 30, 2004

As we are bringing up the AskMe RSS feed into question, could the title of the question be the title of the feed item. Right now it is just, "AskMe Question #XXXXX" Oh, and a pony, unnumbered. Thanks.
posted by plemeljr at 8:28 PM on September 30, 2004

I don't think AskMe questions actually have titles, yet. The form's basically just username, password, question text and "preview" and "submit" buttons.

And I don't see any autodetect stuff in the source for the MetaTalk homepage, either. Isn't it supposed to be a <link> tag in the head?
posted by arto at 9:32 PM on September 30, 2004

plemelr, I created a feed for AskMefi that does that, it is at http://www.xqse.com/feeds/askmefi.php

It takes the first 100 characters of the post as the title.
posted by sebas at 10:48 PM on September 30, 2004