Art Posted January 4, 2006 Author Share Posted January 4, 2006 We just got this running today so report back any questions or concerns you have and we'll keep trying to polish it up. I'll look at the Treo link provided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallyG3 Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Art - do you know of any plans for Redskins.com to do an RSS feed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moody Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 So, we've enabled RSS feeds for our site. Our thought is some people can't have a big black ES screen up at all times at work. But, they could have a news reader up and synching with our site and clicking things that interest them. We could also use this to communicate out chats, stories, announcements and the like, depending on which feeds you, as the member, wish to have enabled.Does anyone here use this kind of thing and would you find it useful to play around with some? For users who don't know what I'm talking about, just ask and someone -- myself included -- will try to explain . Art. I use RSS all the time - makes keeping up with news on the net manageable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redskns21 Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Yes, and yes. It would make Redskins life a little easier!Since we're talking higher tech, what's the chance of using an Instant Messenger of some kind for game day? It would make game chats a lot easier. No more clicking on refresh! Try this browser, http://avantbrowser.com/. It is a browser that works on top of IE and has some cool features like tabbed browsing and a navigation menu which will refresh pages for you automatically every 10 seconds or at higher intervals if desired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsNatsFan Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Never heard of it before. It is easy. Thanks to the suggestions in here I've got it set up in my Firefox browser and my My Yahoo home page. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig19406 Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I have been waiting awhile for this. Great idea.For those of you using Firefox, it's pretty simple to add the feed directly to the browser. Go to the 'bookmarks' menu and then click 'manage bookmarks.' A new window will pop up. From there, go to 'file' and then click 'new live bookmark.' Under 'feed location' paste the link Art posted above. Now if you go to the 'bookmarks' menu again, you will see this new bookmark. I tried this and I get a message "Live bookmark feed failed to load". What am I doing wrong here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 5, 2006 Author Share Posted January 5, 2006 What are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Try this www.ipodder.org a nice pittle piece of software that quickly scans all your feeds from all your sites and automatically downloads it for use at your option. Runs in the background and works all day for you if you want, and has a small footprint. Then you can add all sorts of podcasts and newsfeeds,,, like, oh I dunno.. www.bangcartoon.com/podcast/bangradio.xml or something like that there.. and create your own radio. edit,... looks like their server is having some work done, so maybe this will work later. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TahoeSkin Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Try this browser, http://avantbrowser.com/.It is a browser that works on top of IE and has some cool features like tabbed browsing and a navigation menu which will refresh pages for you automatically every 10 seconds or at higher intervals if desired. ok. Thanks. Will give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wshngtn1 Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 I have been waiting awhile for this. Great idea.For those of you using Firefox, it's pretty simple to add the feed directly to the browser. Go to the 'bookmarks' menu and then click 'manage bookmarks.' A new window will pop up. From there, go to 'file' and then click 'new live bookmark.' Under 'feed location' paste the link Art posted above. Now if you go to the 'bookmarks' menu again, you will see this new bookmark. I have several setup in Firefox (ESPN, FOXSports, CNN, etc) but when I follow these instructions, I get the following error... "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below." The "document tree" looks like html code - I guess its XML code... Any suggestions. EDIT: Actually I just think my internet connection is slower than Simms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba9497 Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 love my rss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yahozna Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdsarin Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Fantastic! I think that adding RSS to ExtremeSkins is a great idea, and it allows folks to jump quickly to conversations that interest them without wasting time. Though I've been a member of this board for years, I rarely visit (and never, until now, post) because of the time it takes to navigate and to search this site. Obviously, you guys have done a fine job, but RSS makes the site better by making it more accessible. I think you'll find more users for RSS when it becomes a standard part of IE and Windows Vista. I'd suggest adding the number of replies on a thread to the feed text. I'd also suggest a larger excerpt in the feed (say, the entire originating post). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fight_on_til_you_have_won Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 So, we've enabled RSS feeds for our site. Our thought is some people can't have a big black ES screen up at all times at work. But, they could have a news reader up and synching with our site and clicking things that interest them. We could also use this to communicate out chats, stories, announcements and the like, depending on which feeds you, as the member, wish to have enabled.Does anyone here use this kind of thing and would you find it useful to play around with some? For users who don't know what I'm talking about, just ask and someone -- myself included -- will try to explain . Art. I don't use RSS feeds, but I know what they are. (I'm a web developer.) Honestly, I'd settle for a message board that renders correctly... :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 5, 2006 Author Share Posted January 5, 2006 I don't use RSS feeds, but I know what they are. (I'm a web developer.) Honestly, I'd settle for a message board that renders correctly... :doh: You'll probably have to be somewhat more specific either here, in a PM or in our Feedback forum. This is the most heavily used NFL message board with tens of thousands of members. The board, obviously and clearly, renders at least acceptably well. There's one uniform rendering issue we're aware of as it's a flaw in the code itself but that's rarely seen. Should you have a local configuration that is causing a unique rendering issue you'll have to make it known to us so we can see what can be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 5, 2006 Author Share Posted January 5, 2006 We love the initial look at RSS feeds for the site. However, we're going to disable this for a spell while we look at a couple of things and we assure we're able to handle any growing load it may cause. So, if your feeds stop working, it's because we've turned them off. We will update as we move to this again. Our hope is it will not be a long period to wait given the ease of implementation. Art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pez Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Dang... just when I saw this thread.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm0304 Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Live Bookmark Feed Failed To Load about:livemark-failed Tried to load it in Firefox and that is the message i got. Anyone got any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Tater Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 I love RSS. BTW, there are several options to use RSS: a newsreader client, some browsers support bookmarking RSS feeds and there are several newsreaders you can hit on the internet (either use an online desktop like start.com or an on-line feedreader like gritwire). Actually, more people use RSS (I think the majority) than know what it is (about 10% of internet users). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BD Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I love RSS - please let us know when you turn them back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.