[Bf-webcontent] RSS

[pablo]

Bart,
One feed containing both news and announcements should be fine. Less 
confusing & less of a bandwidth load for the site [most users would just 
subscribe to both of them]. How you've set up the feed using the 
<category> tag to describe either a news item or announcement is enough 
to distinguish the posts.

I guess it should also depend on how often and how many posts you think 
will be authored on the blender3d.org site [ie: a site like /. or a 
popular news site adds value by offering it's users separate feeds for 
each category because there is so much content posted daily, and 
separate category feeds allow users to filter out posts they have no 
interest in]. At the current rate of posts on the blender site I think 
you're fine with only one feed.
p

Bart Veldhuizen wrote:

> About those RSS feeds:
>
> I have a test version online now on http://www.blender.org/rss/ 
> news.rss (this is a static export of the 'dynamic' RSS feed to  
> prevent server load problems. Once we're happy with it we'll move it  
> into a crontab.
>
> My question is this: I have combined both the news and the  
> announcements into one feed; would it be useful/better to split them  
> into separate channels? Or would that only be confusing?
>
> Bart
>
> Op 23-sep-2005, om 3:07 heeft Troy Simpson het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to provide announcements and news in RSS format (if  
>> it's not
>> already there somewhere)?  I'm willing to help, but I guess there's  
>> other
>> considerations such as possible extra bandwidth use with clients
>> automatically checking for updates.
>>
>> There is a current forum discussion here:
>>
>> http://www.blender3d.org/forum/viewtopic.php? 
>> t=4413&sid=6ba7b6a2a3f93d97de53
>> d5ec9f38fde3
>>
>> Thanks for Blender and the great site.  I have web experience so I  
>> might be
>> able to help with blender.org.  I currently own and run
>> http://www.ebswift.com and http://opensource.ebswift.com (basically  two
>> different main areas of the one site).
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Troy Simpson
>>
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