RSS Feed

Does this site have an RSS news feed? If it doesn't could one be created. :roller:

Agreed

there is one, i use it in trillian.

If there is one, could someone please tell me where the link is to it?

It exists, but is broken right now. Yogi is going to fix it up for you.

Thanks

:bump:
What's the URL for when it's fixed?

Request: Fully qualified RSS 1.0 that uses the description tags for blurbs or excerpts.

What's RSS? Trillian?

Really Simple Syndication, it's a means of allowing other applications or websites to grab and display information, in this case news headlines. Trillian does support an RSS plug-in, and there are a host of other news aggregator programs that allow you to sort and organize all your favorite feeds. The primary point of RSS is that it allows end users to check up on site updates at-a-glance through the application of their choice.

Let me know if there are any issues

http://www.tribalwar.com/twrss.php

Opera's RSS interpretation is pretty neat. It creates a seperate e-mail pane for Newsfeeds and displays each update as a 'new email' per 'contact' (the site it's syndicating from.)

Let me know if there are any issues

http://www.tribalwar.com/twrss.php

RSS Newsfeeds are generally stripped of HTML. =o

Thanks for getting that up Yogi

RSS Newsfeeds are generally stripped of HTML. =o
I can do that.

That's the only thing that I noticed that was wrong was with it. =)

HTML strip, and clip the description field. It's usually not a good idea to provide the entire text of the news post, but rather just enough to let readers know what's going on. Some apps designed for plug-in or space-saver use choke on too much text. If you still want to provide full entries RSS 2 allows you to use the <content> tag in addition to the description tag. That will hold the full post data for apps that know how to read it (and allows you to leave HTML encoding in for them if you render it as <content:encoded>) and those that don't will skip over it and default to the 1.0 reading with the excerpt.

Ideally you'd want a specific field in the news app for a blurb or excerpt which could feed the description field on the RSS, but lacking that a lot of folks just do character limited clips of the post.

Other bells and whistles you can consider adding that will spruce up your presentation:

The image field is very useful for keeping your brand image alive.
<image>
<link>http://www.whatever.com</link>
<title>Whatever!</title>
<url>http://www.whatever.com/image.jpg</url>
</image>

Also, the dc:date field can be used in the header portion to tell the aggregator when the last time this feed was updated. This does not interfere with its usage inside the item listings themselves.

Thanks again for being on top of this Yogi. It's a great resource and it's pained me to see TW without it.

It's not seeming to work with Trillian :/

Works fine with Trillian pro

I'd also enable the RSS feed for the forums, but it doesn't take forum permissions into account, which is bad. I need to remember to report that.