RSS feeds for new posts ?

[Eric Grange 11]

Hi,

I had a request to add https://en.delphipraxis.net/ to https://www.beginend.net/ however I am not sure which RSS feed could be used to obtain new recent topics ? 

The activity streams have a few, but they appear centered on my own activity.

[Markus Kinzler 174]

The main feed should be https://en.delphipraxis.net/discover/all.xml/

[dummzeuch 1506]

3 hours ago, Eric Grange said:

Hi,

I had a request to add https://en.delphipraxis.net/ to https://www.beginend.net/ however I am not sure which RSS feed could be used to obtain new recent topics ? 

The activity streams have a few, but they appear centered on my own activity.

Not sure whether this is a good idea. The main RSS feed is quite noisy and will dominate all other feeds.

[Eric Grange 11]

AFAICT https://en.delphipraxis.net/discover/all.xml/ is the global activity one, and it lists every reply 😕

Even I was able to filter out the replies and keep only new topics, it is very short, so new topics would easily be missed.

[Eric Grange 11]

3 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

Not sure whether this is a good idea. The main RSS feed is quite noisy and will dominate all other feeds.

It would be placed in the sidebar, alongside the other forums.

[stijnsanders 35]

What if one really wants to list only the new forum posts? I tried https://en.delphipraxis.net/discover/new.xml but that doesn't work.

[Markus Kinzler 174]

What does it mean, it doesn't work. What are you missing?

[dummzeuch 1506]

1 hour ago, stijnsanders said:

What if one really wants to list only the new forum posts? I tried https://en.delphipraxis.net/discover/new.xml but that doesn't work.

Try that one: https://en.delphipraxis.net/discover/22/#

[Markus Kinzler 174]

Personal streams are not availaible for other users or for anonymous access.

[stijnsanders 35]

https://en.delphipraxis.net/discover/38/ ???

You select 'items only' and 'topics' and still get replies? What I want is a list of new items only...

[Eric Grange 11]

The discover/38 seems fine indeed, the corresponding RSS is missing the GUID fields, but I can work with that.

Now added 🙂

[Daniel 417]

we now have two more rss-feeds to offer. i am testing the options we have.

https://en.delphipraxis.net/rssalltopics.xml/

and

https://en.delphipraxis.net/rss/1-new-topics.xml/

 

//edit: I changed the url for the second stream

 

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

How do the two differ? 

Do you plan to offer both? 

[Daniel 417]

Actually I'd prefer the second one, because it is the internal solution without plugins.

For the moment I just want to know if it satisfies or not. 😉 So I am offering both for the moment and waiting for feedback.

As soon as it becomes clear that this feed will help us, it will get a real name and it's final url.

[Daniel 417]

Lars, this is the public thread. 😀

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

I just realized 

[Eli M. 38]

The single feed is decent enough. The test feed seems better than the plugin feed because the plugin feed has HTML in the description. The only draw back vs. pulling each individual forum is with the forum pull the forum/category of the post is known. The all feed doesn't have that though RSS probably has a field for it.

 

TListView on the other hand is entirely unsuitable for displaying the feed however.

[stijnsanders 35]

Haha! I no longer need TListView for displaying feeds: https://github.com/stijnsanders/feeder#feeder

[stijnsanders 35]

@Daniel, yes the URL https://en.delphipraxis.net/rssalltopics.xml/ looks exactly like what I was looking for.

[Daniel 417]

7 hours ago, stijnsanders said:

@Daniel, yes the URL https://en.delphipraxis.net/rssalltopics.xml/ looks exactly like what I was looking for.

How does it differ for you from the second one?

Changed URL to https://en.delphipraxis.net/rss/1-new-topics.xml/

 

The feed you mentioned is provided by an addon to this software. while this is an option, I'd like to push the built-in solutions if possible.

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

Using The Old Reader (https://theoldreader.com/), it seems like the rssalltopics.xml (Forums) gives the best readability, while the 1-new-topics.xml (New Topics) sort of mangle the contents.

Both should probably be modified to contain "Delphi PRAXiS" instead of the "New Topics" / "Forum topics" - as the name doesn't really show up in the RSS readers.

 

Forums: Embedded graphics is nice.

 

Forums: Easier to read code snippets

 

 

Forums: Clickable URL is nice.

 

 

Forums: Showing something that resembles the original formatting is nice.

 

 

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

Both look more or less the same in the compact view.