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Agathon is offline Agathon
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Have you guys thought of this? I'd keep it permanently bookmarked.
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hey, this is a cool idea. I support it.

Agathon is offline Agathon
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A bit of my reasoning:

Both Firefox and Safari support RSS feeds within the browser by means of Live Bookmarks (Screenshot attached). Microsoft have just announced that this feature will be in IE 7, so this means that all the major browsers on all three major platforms will support RSS.

I often miss Poly news because I'm too lazy to visit the front page. But if I had a Live Poly Bookmark, I would be instantly alerted to the new content.

I have no idea of how much work this would involve, but if it was not too much, I think it would improve the site. Apolyton special offers would certainly have a better chance of reaching my eyes if an RSS feed was started.

Please don't think of this as a whine. I just think it would be a good addition to the site from a subscriber's point of view.

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Alex is offline Alex
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Opera also supports RSS feeds within the browser, so I'd like to see this implemented. And it would probably increase the number of hits on other pages besides the forum ones, because RSS subscribers would have easy access to Poly news.

Kuciwalker is offline Kuciwalker
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Feb 2001
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quote:
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A bit of my reasoning:

Both Firefox and Safari support RSS feeds within the browser by means of Live Bookmarks (Screenshot attached). Microsoft have just announced that this feature will be in IE 7, so this means that all the major browsers on all three major platforms will support RSS.


Since when is Macintosh a major platform?
Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
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The farce is strong with this one.
Feb 2000
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Atahualpa is offline Atahualpa
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RSS feeds do generate a lot of traffic though...
Agathon is offline Agathon
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But Apolyton's RSS feed would be accessed by members, and there are only a few hundred of those who'd bookmark the link.

That's one hit on a page per hour per member. Much less than the forums get. I imagine the average participating Poly member downloads a few hundred forum pages a day. What's 8 or so more hits?
Kaak is offline Kaak
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Lost
May 1999
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what is the benefit of rss?
Theben is offline Theben
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Real ****ty Service

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The benefit of RSS is that Markos can post a thread praising it in the OT, but ignore a thread a loyal member starts in the community forum asking whether this praiseworthy feature will be added to his favourite site.

Theben is offline Theben
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Easier for him to post "#7" one time.

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i wasnt praising rss, i was making an comment on Microsoft's excitment that after all these years they managed to add an rss feeder on a version of ie that will come out in 1-2 years

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i wasnt praising rss, i was making an comment on the Microsoft's excitment that after all these years they managed to add an rss feeder on a version of ie that will come out in 1-2 years


Well, when it does, will people be able to use it to access a wonderful Apolyton RSS feed?

MarkG is offline MarkG
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in 1-2 years? sure!

Alex is offline Alex
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DrSpike is offline DrSpike
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So this is item 39 on the todo list?

Agathon is offline Agathon
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The Laird has spoken.

Now... for the next item... once the RSS thing is done, why not make Apolyton radio a podcast?

I'm full of ideas today.

Nikolai is offline Nikolai
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Oct 2000
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A podcast instead of "ACSR Weekly" might be a good idea...
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Do you have to own a mp3 player in order to enjoy a podcast?
Nikolai is offline Nikolai
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No. Podcasting is AFAIK older than iPod anyway.
Agathon is offline Agathon
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quote:
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A podcast instead of "ACSR Weekly" might be a good idea...


ACSR Weekly has much higher production values than most podcasts.

Agathon is offline Agathon
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No. Podcasting is AFAIK older than iPod anyway.


I don't think so. It's only been going for a couple of years, since RSS has risen in prominence.
Nikolai is offline Nikolai
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Well, I only refer to what I've read on the net. One thing's for sure from what I've read, it does not refer to iPod.
Nikolai is offline Nikolai
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I might be wrong on the last statement, if not the wikipedia article I just found is wrong that is.

Here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
Agathon is offline Agathon
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Ha ha. Nikolai pwned.

Nikolai is offline Nikolai
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Nah, I'd rather say the guys I read discussing this some time back(I think it was on poly) is the one's pwned.
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