Test out the Neowin RSS 2.0 feed!

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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:

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