Lechio Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Was planning on making a small RSS client that allowed to read the neowin.net forum feeds, allow the user to "subscribe" to a specific thread and receive information when that thread gets replies, IM style. This client would have to be constantly updating. Questions: Does neowin.net block the clients IP if it updates too often? (I know that some sites do this) What would be a fair limit of time for checking updates from the server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiB3R Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Sorry I can't answer your question, but how do you get the feed for a thread, or even a sub forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 It's the neowin.net forum feed: http://feeds.neowin.net/neowin-forum The "subscription" to a thread is made from inside the client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiB3R Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Gotcha. I'm using "Brief" for firefox, and was hoping to be able to do this from within there. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 On the client I'm working on it can be done using title/URL matching. But it's a standalone client, not attached to any browser, kinda like an IM. Only have to work on the notifications and such. Don't want to be making something that would cause any disturbance to the neowin.net server, or not be functional later. Until now I haven't seen any issue with updating the feed too often. Just wanted some assurance from a neowin.net dev that it would not be a problem to update a feed that often... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 Here's an idea of how the interface could be: Main window: Reply notification: Was thinking the main window could have the details of the thread just as it shows in the "Latest Forum Activity" and the notification window could have the details of the person that replied to the topic (avatar, name). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperKid Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 This app sounds awesome, proberly the gui would need to be a little more user-friendly, make the main app window use native windows theme but the notifications use a small squared box in the corner of your screen it isnt very disturbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 This app sounds awesome, proberly the gui would need to be a little more user-friendly, make the main app window use native windows theme but the notifications use a small squared box in the corner of your screen it isn't very disturbing. Yap, just working on the concept. It's supposed to look similar to an instant messenger, with the notifications to a topic "subscription" showing as IM alerts with the description of who replied to that. The main window will have the most recent topics that got replies. It will be platform independent and it is designed using the QT libs. Any input on the interface design is welcomed. Interface right now is just there for proof of concept, the RSS "engine" is in what I'm currently focused on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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