Test out the Neowin RSS 2.0 feed!

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

After a quick bit of coding, I came up with a new RSS 2.0 feed for the site. It includes a long sought-after feature: news post contents! So, with an RSS reader, you can get the Neowin news in your desktop RSS app without having to visit the site to view the whole story. The admins have told me it should go live soon! :)

Here's the links to give it a try:

https://www.neowin.net/new_backend.php?page=main

https://www.neowin.net/new_backend.php?page=gamers

https://www.neowin.net/new_backend.php?page=software

https://www.neowin.net/new_backend.php?page=forum

Feel free to post any problems you have here. I can see if I can fix things up.

[matt74441]

Very nice timdorr, I'll give this a try.

[bakerster]

whats a good program to view syndications?

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// OK I found a good one called SharpReader. It's pretty self explanitory (Y)

http://www.sharpreader.net/SharpReader0951_Setup.exe

Edited July 28, 2004 by [Rob.Baker]

[Creamy]

Trillian has a great News-reader-Plugin!

Will try Neowin RSS 2.0, thanks timdorr! :)

[[John]]

Sounds cool timdorr. Thanks!

:D

[giga Veteran]

Looks good tim! (Y) But one thing im noticing using firefox and sage is that the links turn out to be white.

[bakerster]

Woah.. You can use firefox to view this?

Mm, If I was going to use a browser I would go for the Main Page anyway.

[giga Veteran]

,Jul 28 2004, 12:40] Woah.. You can use firefox to view this?

Mm, If I was going to use a browser I would go for the Main Page anyway.

Main page isnt as clean or fast. ;)

[Glowstick]

http://users.skynet.be/fa001478/nwrss.png

(Y)

[Dazzla Veteran]

How do you add RSS feeds to Outlook 2003?

[Glowstick]

http://www.newsgator.com

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

Since it appears to work in a variety of programs already, the code is now live. You can use http://neowin.net/backend.php as the URL. The new_backend.php link will stay up, though. Thanks for the feedback everyone :)

[Toxikk Veteran]

http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/index.asp

feeddemon owns all.

[Zero1]

Very, very nice timdorr.

May i ask, with Outlook2003 do you get desktop alerts when a new news item is found? Could be useful :woot:

[Glowstick]

It would be nice if the amount of returned newsitems would be more than 10. Because if you're using an aggregator, you might be missing news entries that have been posted during offline time spans. Increasing the amount of items creates the necessary overlap. Naturally if the newsposters are on a spree, it doesn't help either.

Another idea would be to return a varying amount of news posts, either depending on some mystical math formula based on the newsitem throughput, or maybe just all items posted the last 18 or 24 hours, with a minimum of 10.

Desktop tools like Klipfolio, Trillian and what not have the ability to limit the amount of items to show, so having it return more than 10 items shouldn't be so much of an issue.

--edit: fixed a word.

Edited July 29, 2004 by Tom Servo

[.....]

Looks good tim! (Y) But one thing im noticing using firefox and sage is that the links turn out to be white.

It's a problem with theme, I've spent 20-30 minutes looking over it, and I can't see a way of changing the link colour without changing the colour of each title too. Which then makes the title hard to read on the blue, so you have to change the background, and then it doesn't look like Safari's RSS reader anymore, lol.

It might just be my poor css skills, but I don't think it is. (for once)

[aem4162]

After a quick bit of coding, I came up with a new RSS 2.0 feed for the site. It includes a long sought-after feature: news post contents! So, with an RSS reader, you can get the Neowin news in your desktop RSS app without having to visit the site to view the whole story. The admins have told me it should go live soon! :)

Here's the links to give it a try:

https://www.neowin.net/new_backend.php?page=main

https://www.neowin.net/new_backend.php?page=gamers

https://www.neowin.net/new_backend.php?page=software

https://www.neowin.net/new_backend.php?page=forum

Feel free to post any problems you have here. I can see if I can fix things up.

what's rss? the links just have this stuff:

[nwBen]

what's rss? the links just have this stuff:

Heh, silly Anita :p You put those links into an RSS Reader program to read it properly - that code is what the program interprets :)

[Banzai]

tell you what they should put rss feeds into Thunderbird that would be grate.

[Avogadro]

Nice, no more ads ;)

[Banzai]

sadatkarim how do you get firefox to open rss like that ive got Saga installed but i just get it in a standard format no fancy looks to it

[giga Veteran]

It was a skin I found on deviantart. Just go through the firefox sage stuff there and there should be one similar to safari's rss.

edit: found it

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/8546603/

Edited July 29, 2004 by sadatkarim

[Banzai]

thanks sadatkarim

[505]

Could you add <pubDate> to the feed, so you can see the date and time something was added. It also helps to show if a feed is updated.

[aem4162]

Heh, silly Anita :p You put those links into an RSS Reader program to read it properly - that code is what the program interprets :)

why do i need an rss reader?