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RSS Feeds Basically Useless

William.Thompsonj
Saturday, February 1, 2014 - 12:43
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I've been trying to use the RSS feeds to keep up with OGA on my phone. Most of the day I spend at work or doing school work when I'm not with my family.

The Active Forum Topics RSS feed (opengameart.org/active-forum-topics.xml) only shows *NEW* topics, not when someone leaves a comment. It's nice to know when there's a new topic on the forum but what use is that when you can't follow the discussion?

The Recent Art Comments RSS feed (opengameart.org/recent-comments.xml) shows new comments on content but also new comments on forum topics! What's worse is there's no real title that tells you what the comment relates to!

The only reason I noticed this was because I left a comment on a forum topic that says "That looks quite good!" I noticed this comment showed up under recent art comments with the title "That looks quite good!"

Why are there RSS feeds if they doesn't give you meaningful updates? I'm temped to make an app for my phone that parses the recent comments page (opengameart.org/comments/recent) as an RSS feed so I can get the real page title (where the comment belongs), whether it's content or a forum topic, who posted it, and appropriate links in either case. If I have to open OGA on a browser to get meaningful information or to understand what the RSS feed is showing me then the RSS feeds are useless.

As a side note: would anyone be interested in using an app like this if I did make one? It wouldn't take a lot to make and I could make a version for Android and iOS at the same time.

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bart
joined 13 years 10 months ago
Saturday, February 1, 2014 - 17:21
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Sorry about that.

I only added the RSS feeds because of requests (I don't use them myself), and no one has mentioned these issues to me before.  I'll try to fix them when I have a chance.

Bart

 

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William.Thompsonj
joined 11 years 11 months ago
Sunday, February 2, 2014 - 02:02
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I'm sorry if I sound like a prick. I don't mean to be rude about it. I love poking around on OGA, it's my favorite diversion. I just want to use the wonderful site you built to it's fullest extent and found it had a little hiccup.

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