MetaTalk posts tagged with rss

RSS feed or reader broken by long thread?

FishBike — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:58:22 -0800

The November Experiment thread has broken something RSS-related. I'm trying to follow that monster thread via RSS and I can't get the feed to load in my reader (RSSOwl 2.0.0 build 2009-10-24). Checking the log file, I'm seeing this:

MESSAGE Error loading 'Comments on: November is National Let's Try Obscuring Favorite Counts Month' Problem: Error on line 26308: The character reference must end with the ';' delimiter. Link: feed://metatalk.metafilter.com/18396/November-is-National-Lets-Try-Obscuring-Favorite-Counts-Month/rss

Is it the RSS feed that's broken, or can my reader just not handle it? Is it working for anyone else?

Rss Issues

blue_beetle — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:41:51 -0800

Flag Suggestion: HTML Error in RSS Example: This post has an issue with the umlat in RSS, but works fine on the web page.

RSS comment count?

Baldons — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:44:35 -0800

Since yesterday, I haven't been seeing the comment count in the RSS feeds anymore. I've tried in the main metafilter feed and in the popular posts feed. Is it a bug, an oversight, a suppressed pony? Is it just me? Thanks for listening.

Thanks for my pony?

butterstick — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:43:03 -0800

Thanks for my pony? So early last year I asked for a pony, and I just recently noticed this functionality is in the RSS feed now. Is this a recent addition or have I just not noticed? Do I thank pb/mathowie or feedburner for this one?

Comments RSS?

DJWeezy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:41:32 -0800

Comments RSS? I haven't been able to find it, is there a rss feed for a specific users comments across all sites?

“Ads? in my feed?” / It's more likely than you think.

blasdelf — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:33:42 -0800

Advertisements in the RSS feed? Given that Matt has written before about his disdain for this bullshit, what gives?

Feeds problem

mikel — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:28:49 -0800

Since the "troubles" all of my MeFi feeds have been messed up - posts are being identified in several different feeds etc. Is the best course of action to wait for things to correct themselves as the deployment wrinkles get worked out or delete the old feed addresses and re-add now that the new servers are deployed?

Why "Filters" before questions?

dicetumbler — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:41:32 -0800

This is probably obvious, which is why I couldn't find it in the FAQ or the search. Why do people preface their questions with "[blank] filter:"? Does it help future searches and RSS filters?

MeFi on iPhone via RSS through Google Reader

butterstick — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:56:34 -0800

What's the best way to browse MeFi on an iPhone, usually via RSS? I'm not sure if this goes here or on Ask. Anyhoo, the full site renders great in Safari on an iPhone, but I usually use the RSS feed, and my reader of choice is Google Reader. That has a great iPhone experience, but when i follow links from the RSS feed, i'm in the mobile version of the site which is close to illegible. The comments are all smashed up and it's really hard to follow a thread.

MetaFilter Feeds Glitch

pb — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:30:29 -0800

You might see old MetaFilter posts or comments showing up as new in Google Reader thanks to a new year glitch we fixed today. Here's the glitch: every post or comment that flows out in RSS feeds has a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) that news readers like Google Reader use to identify items. As part of this identifier, MetaFilter was using the current year instead of the year associated with the original post or comment. So when the year rolled over yesterday, hilarity ensued. Not quite Zune-levels of hilarity, but enough to be embarrassed about. Google saw the new IDs for these old items and presented the items as new. Sorry about that. We've had a good number of questions about this and want to let everyone know that 2009 (and beyond) will be filled with permanent, non-changing GUIDs.

feed for personal activity

adamrice — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:53:31 -0800

I've been playing with a lifestream app, and it would be interesting to be able to pull my metafilter posting/commenting history into that. The most streamlined way for that to happen would be via RSS. It doesn't seem like there's any way to do that currently. Obviously this is a low priority, but if it's just a matter of flipping a switch, it could be interesting. Just to be clear, this would be different from the "recent activity" -- it would include only one's own comments and posts, rather than all new activity on threads one has participated in. It would be equivalent to feeds for http://www.metafilter.com/activity/[usernumber]/comments/ and http://www.metafilter.com/activity/[usernumber]/posts/

Popularity Context

Riki tiki — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:43:11 -0800

Pony: Can the popular comments RSS feed include the title of the threads to which those comments were posted? Currently, entries in the popular comments RSS feed appear as follows:

By PosterName in MeFi by PosterName Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Could we include the thread title? It would give some extra context for people who read the comments directly in their RSS reader...

By PosterName in "SLYT lolcat PoliticsFilter Blue" [MeFi] by PosterName Yada yada yada yada yada yada yada.

Only counterargument I can see (other than it being yet another feature to implement) is that a lot of people put jokes in the title. But even then, you could recognize threads you're familiar with so you don't have to click through to the actual comment if you already have the context. Thanks!

Number of comments in AskMe RSS feed?

proj — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:02:50 -0800

Pony request for AskMe RSS feed: Number of comments and/or indication that the original poster has marked a best answer. Possible?

individual favourite posts rss-feed

kolophon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:24:05 -0800

Pony request: An individual favourite posts rss-feed? would that be feasible, or too much traffic/processor load/work? I think it would be a great feature for those of us who are on soup.io or tumblr - or just have a blog with the ability to import rss-feeds, like a wordpress widget - so we could feed our favourite posts to them.

Display Title of Post in RSS feed of Popular Comments?

jpdoane — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:57:28 -0800

I use the "Popular Comments" feed to keep track of all the great things you witty people are always saying. Currently, the title of each comment in the feed is formatted like so:

By orthogonality in MeFi

which does not provide any sort of context for the comment. Currently I have to mouseover the link and look at the thread's URL to see what the title of the post is so that I know what the heck the comment is talking about. Of course, to understand the full context I have to go read the surrounding comments. But it would be immensely helpful if the title of the post would also display in the title of the RSS feed. This perhaps could replace the "in [subsite]" (which is nice to know, but not nearly so helpful as the actual title of the post would be). Thus is might look like this: By orthogonality in post "Police raid mayor's house, shoot dogs, recommend land war in Asia."

Revisiting Favorites - RSS Pony Request

jkaczor — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:43:44 -0800

Getting your own Favorites as an RSS feed? Yeah, I know this has been asked previously and people were concerned about stalking. But - what about an RSS feed only when one is authenticated, only for ones' OWN favorites.

Tags in RSS feeds

Drama Penguin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:55:20 -0800

I know we've discussed not adding tags to front page posts, but how about the RSS feed? For posts that are somewhat cryptic, it could help with context.

pyMeFi

signal — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:45:03 -0800

I'm playing with a simple python MeFi text-based RSS checker. Code here. It's simple little python script that checks the MeFi rss feed every 60 seconds, and displays any new posts. You can keep it running in a background terminal/cmd window for a realtime, text-only mefi fix. Requires feedparser. Corrections/improvements welcome. There's some weirdness with the UTF encoding, for instance.

Two new features, feeds and more feeds

mathowie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:18:54 -0800

Two new features: resolved question sidebar (and feed) and RSS feeds for the Popular favorites page. All is explained within. We've noticed and sort of helped push the ad-hoc use of the "resolved" tag to Ask MeFi posts where you tried out the advice and it worked or you figured out the name of the book you were looking for. Recently, we mods have taken it upon ourselves to scope out old threads that were getting updates and applying the tag wherever we could. It's always nice to know people solved their problems but there was no easy way to highlight a 7 month old thread where someone figured out the perfect solution. So we added a sidebar on the "answered" tab of Ask MeFi, ordered by how recently the resolved tag was added to them. There's also a feed if you really like closure and want to see new ones added automatically. We hope people continue to use the tag to mark off their questions when they're done and have posted updates late in the thread. The other new feature is a feed for popular posts (RSS) and popular comments (RSS) across all MeFi sites. Before today, you would have to glance at the page to keep up, but now you can add the feeds to your RSS reader of choice (it works great in Google Reader) and you'll see 2-3 new posts or comments in each feed per day. I've been following both feeds for about a week and they're great -- the posts feed is mostly Ask MeFi and it's definitely the best of the best, the comments feed is half jokey quips and half super useful comments from mefi or ask mefi where someone explains the hell out of something.

Comment feeds in descending chronology

neetij — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:51:10 -0800

The RSS feeds for comments update in reverse order - with the most recent comments showing up at the bottom of the list (oldest to newest) - unlike the feed for posts where the most recent is at the top (newest to oldest). Why is this the case? When I subscribe to a thread on AskMe/Meta I'm doing so because I obviously want to follow the discussion. Personally, I don't want to scroll to the bottom of a page (I prefer to view all items to keep a little context), or FF's Live Bookmarks, to find the most recent item. Can it be addressed by MeFi or is this a 'feature not a bug' thing in the RSS spec?

MetaTalk RSS feed showing MeFi posts

divabat — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:31:25 -0800

The MetaTalk RSS feed is showing MeFi front page posts. I'm using NewsGator, and this has only happened (last I checked) within the past 24 hours. Does anyone else have this problem?

RSS feed scrubbed of deleted posts?

pantufla_milagrosa — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:05:31 -0800

Greetings from a neophyte mefite. I was wondering: is there a way to get versions of the RSS feeds which don't include front-page posts that have already been deleted? If not, it's a feature suggestion, so please discuss. Apologies if I'm being dumb and this is simply not possible using RSS. (For a while I enjoyed the "guess if this post has been deleted" game, but it's getting old...)

Double the AskMeFi goodness in my RSS

prophetsearcher — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:03:12 -0800

Anyone else getting double AskMeFi RSS posts? Anyone else getting double AskMeFi RSS posts? Mac OSX.5, Freebie NetNewsWire, refreshes feeds every 2 hours. I'm not getting doubles of a recent individual thread I subscribed to, however.

Comment count in RSS

butterstick — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:40:17 -0800

Pony request: Is it feasible to get the current comment count in the rss feed? The only downside I see to this is it may encourage people to increase the polling frequency on their readers, but I personally think it's a great way to discern which posts have a lengthy conversation attached to them. Also, I would be willing to donate/volunteer development time to implement this if needed.