Feed me
After much hooping and hollering from the peanut gallery, I think I’ve fixed etherfarm’s RSS feeds, particularly the feeds for this section of etherfarm, Synapse. There were issues regarding updating and display of images, particularly for entries cross-posted from Oculus. Now the Synapse feeds (available in Atom and RSS 2.0 editions) should list anything that ever appears on etherfarm’s homepage, which is to say everything from Synapse and select entries from Oculus or Mandible. You may notice that as of this post, I am deprecating etherfarm’s RSS 1.0 feeds. I’m not sure whether you have to delete and recreate the feeds or whether they’ll just update themselves; I suppose that depends somewhat on the tenaciousness of your news reader or browser cache, but let me know if you’re still experiencing issues.
For the many of you who do not use RSS readers, this update is of no consequence whatsoever, and allow me to express to you my heartfelt gratitude (and vehement envy) that you’re someone who knows nothing of such ephemeral concerns.
We now continue with our irregularly scheduled programming.
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5 responses
Comment posted at 04:12 on Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Aha, that explains the silence. Unfortunately, life for me lately is too busy to visit sites like I did in ‘03-’04. RSS is the lazy-man’s excuse.
I forgot how cool your site ‘feels’ to visit and the great new mastheads that I have been missing out on.
P.S. is there meant to be a login somewhere?
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Comment posted at 23:14 on Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Hey Mike.
Member stuff is kind-of / sort-of offline for the moment. EE’s member support architecture changed unexpectedly between versions and I haven’t had the time to investigate the new order for all-things-member.
All that good stuff will return when I come up for air.
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C. Gaines
Comment posted at 03:50 on Friday, September 15, 2006
You really need to lose that “Internet Explorer” note on the right column. That is so amateurish. Besides, that’s not even true. I use 7.0 and I don’t see any difference between this and firefux. In fact, it looks better, especialy on full screen.
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Comment posted at 07:34 on Friday, September 15, 2006
Technically, C., you use IE 7.0 RC1, and you’re one of a very small handful of websurfers that does. When 7.0 becomes more widespread and certain features of this site start working correctly for more IE users, I’ll gladly take the browser detection down.
Regarding being “amateurish”, I have three options. I could inform people that on account of their browser, parts of this site will not display as intended, even if coded properly. I could not inform the substantial number of people who use IE versions less than 7.0 that things won’t work well in their browser of choice, despite the code conforming to web standards. Or, I could dumb down this site’s functionality in order for it to work across all browsers. It’s a personal site, and as such, it’s my choice, and I choose to inform users not only that things won’t work in IE, but also that other browsers will remedy that problem.
As for whether it’s “amateurish”, well, that’s your choice, I suppose, and I’m more than comfortable letting you be arbiter of all-things amateur. Thanks, though, for your advice!
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Comment posted at 15:05 on Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Very funny title “Feed me” 
I´m using Synapse Feeds via RSS 2.0 in one of my sites too, and I´m very happy to found such a good way to display images beside my content. I have to agree with you, the IE 7.0 is not popular enough to take the browser detection down. Most Web-Users are still using Version 6.0.
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