Re: RSS for the 2+2 Forum
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It looks good with FeedDemon on the computer, but looks like crap on the BlackBerry using both Newsclip and FeedBurner MFR 2.
The page looks like this:
Title: Re: New Mouse
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All kidding aside,
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Ah, ok, perhaps could do a stripped-down (no HTML tags) version too.
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I then feed it in to FreeNews on the BlackBerry and it looks great!
As for making it better, it would be nice to see the poster's name.
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Ahem... well spotted - that was intended to be in there - easily fixed, it's already in the data picked up from the threads.
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How much server space will this use?
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What server are you referring to? The RSS file will probably be 50-100KB (one RSS file per forum). It won't demand much from the 2+2 servers, since the application will only read the forum periodically, not every time the RSS page is requested.
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How often will it update?
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Whatever... my RSS reader is set to 10 minutes, 5-10 minutes per refresh feels about right, but depends how the 2+2 administrators feel about it - need to get agreement before actually launching this as an updating page.
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Care to make it open source?
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Very much so. It's written in C#, and at the moment is a pretty scrappy PoS, but when it's written properly (probably this weekend) with a separate data access layer, I'm happy to share it.
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