What's an RSS feed?

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:47 pm

and why does maxthon ask me if i want to subscribe to it on certain websites?

Post by **saturn** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:49 pm

it's an xml file that live-feeds news. In firefox you can subscribe to it and put the link in your bookmark. Everytime you move that link you'll see the latest news from that feed. Nothing scary about it, I use it a lot for news. Many sites have RSS feeds these days

Post by **bitWISE** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:50 pm

Because certain websites offer them.

RSS is an XML file that websites send out. News sites for an example, send out the titles and a brief description of current news articles.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:58 pm

so it's like a sort of automated private message thing, that tells you when new content is posted?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:49 am

phantasmagoria wrote:so it's like a sort of automated private message thing, that tells you when new content is posted?

yep. you can subscribe to RSS within Thunderbird also. I'm subbed to Engadget and a couple of F1 sites.

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:07 am

I use it for communicating with the programmers at work, ever since they put me on this improvement/bughunting project in the sotware they make and i have to work with. They sit something like four meters away and could easily talk to me face to face but insisted i installed this thing so they could send me updates on stuff i requested.

I'm still in doubt whether they think it's more efficient that way, or if perhaps they don't wanna see me because i annoy the shit out of them.

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:10 am

Ryoki wrote:I use it for communicating with the programmers at work, ever since they put me on this improvement/bughunting project in the sotware they make and i have to work with. They sit something like four meters away and could easily talk to me face to face but insisted i installed this thing so they could send me updates on stuff i requested.

I'm still in doubt whether they think it's more efficient that way, or if perhaps they don't wanna see me because i annoy the shit out of them.

its because they have a central system where all the bugs are reported and documented, and so they can prioritize the bugs as they come in.

and cause they find you annoying, yes

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:23 am

Lol, it must be the purely the annoyance factor then, because we use another system for prioritising bugs.

Oh my

Post by **mik0rs** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:44 am

Piece of piss to set up a web page that reads the feeds and gives direct linkage too if you wanted to imbed it in your own web page. I did it with the BBC sports news, only takes a few lines of code.

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:12 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
I'm subbed to Engadget

I checked that site and found this must have for all your Jewish nerd friends.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000560045192/

:lol:

Post by **Deathshroud** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:55 pm

If you use Firefox make sure you get this extension to view your RSS feeds. It's much better than the default Firefox tool.

Habari Xenu

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:59 pm

Nightshade wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
I'm subbed to Engadget
I checked that site and found this must have for all your Jewish nerd friends.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000560045192/

:lol:

:lol:

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:28 pm

Deathshroud wrote:If you use Firefox make sure you get this extension to view your RSS feeds. It's much better than the default Firefox tool.

Habari Xenu

I tried that extension and its fucking horrible. Why would I want to have to navigate through a menu, load a new tab, expand some menu items and then wait for it to display the feed? Shit in the time it takes to do that I could just GO to the actual site.

Post by **Therac-26** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:41 pm

bitWISE wrote:
Deathshroud wrote:If you use Firefox make sure you get this extension to view your RSS feeds. It's much better than the default Firefox tool.

Habari Xenu
I tried that extension and its fucking horrible. Why would I want to have to navigate through a menu, load a new tab, expand some menu items and then wait for it to display the feed? Shit in the time it takes to do that I could just GO to the actual site.

No shit...

I use Sage on Firefox -- it's basically an improvment upon Firefox's builtin live bookmark system.

It works really well.