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[martin]

This little utiltity makes it marginally simpler to edit the xml file you need to maintain your RSS feed. [full article]

[Johan Marechal]

Ik gebruik die al een paar dagen en ik moet zeggen dat het prima werkt, zelfs op Martin zijn site

http://www.feedreader.com/
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Groetjes,
Johan

[nevelsteen]

I am going to be brutal here. I haven't used your editor, Martin, even though I could probably incorp a RSS feed on one of my sites, but I really don't feel like adding yet MORE work to update my site. I already update a weblog each time there is something new in the psytrance world. If I have to update the RSS feed as well, then that just increases my work load for a service that very few people in my audience are using. Unfortunately, if the RSS feed is not generated for me I am not going to type one. I was thinking of a way to maybe use XSLT to generate the RSS feed from the weblog.

Maybe I'm wrong and I haven't taken a close enough look at the editor.
-KiM

[martin]

Well, this was one confused discussion... first of all, I think Johan refers to FeedReader, not my RSS Feed Editor, but that's ok.

Second, Kim: who asked you to use the editor? Please don't attack me for giving it away free (that's what it sounds like). If you have a site that produces RSS output from phpBB, great! But if you have a dead, old passive site and still want to have an RSS feed, then what? And that's the situation I was in when I both wrote and used that editor myself. I don't use it since quite some time, but I still have two downloads a day on average. So somebody out there thinks it's at least worth looking at. That's also why I updated it, on request.

But, honestly, if you think people will still browse your site without RSS in the future, you're dreaming. It's simply too much work. Of course, some always will. And yes, it's more work for you. As in all business (which it is, if you're getting paid for it or not).

Very few people in your audience are using the RSS you don't have... Duh.

My RSS feeds have hits of 2740 and 1029 respectively for the first 20 days of october. That's 100 resp. 50 a day. How many people it represents, I don't know. I'm the cause of 5-10, max. RSS constitutes 25% of my total bandwidth (which is a problem).

Now, if your weblog has an RSS feed, that's the same thing. So what are you complaining about?

[nevelsteen]

Indeed, I was referring to the editor and not feedreader, Oops.

No attack intented, more of a helpless shrug. I was contemplating putting in an RSS feed, but I still haven't found a solution that I want to go with. I might go with the integrated phpBB as we set up for your site, but I am still not sure.

I would like to use your editor, but I am still not up to the typing.

So, I still remain RSS-less until I finally make up my mind.

[martin]

[Johan Marechal]

[martin]

Wel, er is een problem met RSS zoals nu gedefinieerd, en dat is bandbreedte... Veel mensen pollen veel te dikwijls, en RSS files zijn niet gecached in intermediaire systemen, dus het weinige bandbreedte op het Internet die over is na de spam, wordt nu opgepeuzeld door RSS. Maar de goede jongens zijn aan het werken aan betere standaarden voor RSS die dit zou verhelpen, liefst voor het ondergaan van het net. Het wordt spannend als de grote menigde het RSS systeem ontdekt.

[Johan Marechal]

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[martin]

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