RSS feature.

ghorn · Post by **ghorn** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:52 am

Works nice with Firefox and Sage. Super improvement Greg.

chessonly · Post by **chessonly** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:10 pm

thats really nice

. specially if u r an opera user like me,
coz its got that built in rss reader thing. real cool.TAKE THAT IE

Post by **gmiller** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:49 pm

There's also a feed for the forums, but it doesn't work very well yet:
http://www.net-chess.com/rssmessages.cgi

Post by **gmiller** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:05 pm

You can also just see the posts for a particular forum, by appending ?forum=FORUMID to the URL. To get the value for FORUMID, you have to look at the URL for the forum your looking at, it's the last number in the URL.

E.g. the forum ID for the announcments is 2, so you'd use the following URL:
http://www.net-chess.com/rssmessages.cgi?forum=2

ghorn · Post by **ghorn** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:49 pm

Greg I just noticed that the colors are reversed for all the games shown on the feed.

Post by **gmiller** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:48 pm

Should be ficed now.

tellymetwise · Post by **tellymetwise** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:49 am

Greg, is it possible to create feed links for single games to watch or would that be asking to much space?

Post by **gmiller** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:16 pm

I changed it so you can view a single game by using a URL like:
http://www.net-chess.com/rss.cgi?id=g1092309870

That'll do for now. Evenually I'll let you specify any number of games to view, as well has having a list of your followed games.

Also it doesn't work if the game has been archived.

Post by **gmiller** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:44 pm

Ok, now you can append as many games as you want by separating them with commas:
http://www.net-chess.com/rss.cgi?id=g10 ... 1092309873

tellymetwise · Post by **tellymetwise** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:55 am

Thanks Greg

tellymetwise · Post by **tellymetwise** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:46 pm

Greg, one more question

Could you enter the following line below the <description>:
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:20:29 PST</pubDate>

And use the "last move" time as date, or something of the like?
I believe this might stop the newsfeeder from continuously warning me that a move has been made.

tellymetwise · Post by **tellymetwise** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:23 am

I'm sorry Greg, I just don't know to much about this stuff

The publication date shows fine, but my rss reader is still updating it as if its a new item. (at least i can now see that there has been a move made)

I even tried to search through this rss description.

Do I need to search for a different reader?? Anyone got some tips which I might try with IE?

Post by **gmiller** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:01 pm

Sage for Mozilla properly realizes there's nothing new even if there isn't a pubDate. Does your reader work on other sites' RSS feeds?

tellymetwise · Post by **tellymetwise** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:17 pm

I only just have this rssreader since your site is using it.

But, yes, it does, but those are ones that also make use of the "lastbuilt" time (might apply, if it concerned daily mass new news items) and "guid" (with new timestamped pages) to ensure for proper date stamp. Those two shouldn't make that much a different, and certainly can't apply to your page.

But as I said, I don't know to much about this, and maybe it might have been some setting I didn't catch. Then again, with your reply, I do believe I should go for a different "really simple syndicate" reader.

I tried to search for one, but with millions of hits and only this "rssreader.com" reader popping up ever 3 hits or so, I'm at a loss where to find one which works fine.

Post by **gmiller** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:02 pm

Which one are you using?

tellymetwise · Post by **tellymetwise** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:40 pm

rssreader from http://www.rssreader.com/ , but I have removed it already.

I received the following link from someone.
http://blogspace.com/rss/readers
Any idea which one might do a good job?

Post by **gmiller** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:57 pm

Looks like that one checks to see if any part of the description has changed since the last time it was received, it it's different, it's new. Since I was displaying the time remaining (including the seconds) it was always different. So I've changed it so that the time remaining isn't displayed if you have more than 30 days remaining, and if you have less than 30 days remaining, then only the number of days left are displayed. So that should suffice.

As for what RSS reader to recommend, I haven't really "used" anything other than the Firefox plugin, and it doesn't seem to have the feature to automatically re-check the feed every few minutes, nor will it pop up a box when something new comes in. So it's probably not the best thing out there. The RssReader you are using seems like the best one I've seen so far, it's just too bad it uses the description to detect changes rather than the title which is pretty much what everything else uses. But it should work fine for now.

tellymetwise · Post by **tellymetwise** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:53 am

What can I say Greg, Thank you for solving this for me.

ppopp · Post by **ppopp** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:16 am

I'm using Sage in Mozilla's Firefox and I get "Error: XML Parse Error". Is this a problem with the feed or a problem with Sage/Firefox?

Post by **gmiller** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:44 am

Sage is what I use and all seems to be working fine. I'll look at the error logs later tonight to see if I can figure out what's up.

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