For Mike's information:
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 00:15 -0500, Steven Clift wrote:
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> column 137: Invalid character in a URI: |' '| [help
> <http://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/InvalidUriChar.html>]
>
> ... p;p=1&f=0&r=0&i=0&l=6"/>
The error is actually because there is a space character in the URI,
rather than replacing it with a '+'.
> In addition, this feed has an issue that may cause problems for some
> users. We recommend fixing this issue.
>
> *
>
> Your feed appears to be encoded as "utf-8", but your server is
> reporting "iso-8859-15" [help
> <http://feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/EncodingMismatch.html>]
This one I'll check out.
Rest of post
> While I still recommend a condensed "topic digest feed" that we can
> display on E-Democracy.Org's home page (and topic digest feeds per
> group), I thought I'd try the /s/ posts feed on an interim basis. It
> didn't work using the latest feed2js and to be more useful presenting
> the "post subject - Group Name" as the title in the feed would be more
> comprehensible.
>
> Feed2js parses the regular atom feeds from group posts which is good.
>
>
> Also, on our St. Paul feedback forum someone asked about the Recent post
> by author from the member page and I thought, why not expand it to
> "Recent posts by or mentioning this member by name" and use the search
> feed to query and then display the results??
Yes, this is planned I believe.
> Finally, "Latest post" is the feed title for all of the groups ... might
> I recommend "Group Name Latest Posts" or "recent" posts which we find a
> more intuitive word than latest.
We had a discussion about this a while back. I believe the consensus
(which we implemented consistently across the site) was that 'recent'
actually implies that the posts happened, well, recently. It is not the
case for all groups that posts which are the 'latest' are also
'recent' (though to add confusion, it would be true that the latest were
also the 'most recent'). You do have to love the english language ;)
I agree about the title change to "Group Name Latest Posts" though.
--Richard
The feed now validates.
Thanks for the tip, Richard. It turned out to be quite tricky to figure out
*where* to fix the bug, but I got there in the end!
Steve, could you give an example of the Feed URL you are discussing, when you
wrote
Finally, "Latest post" is the feed title for all of the groups
When restricted to a group, all feeds from search have the group name in the
title ☺
> why not expand it to "Recent posts by or mentioning this member by name"
Mr. Clift, S. Clift, Steve, Stevie, Steven: we cannot do this ☺
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 15:06 +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> > why not expand it to "Recent posts by or mentioning this member by name"
>
> Mr. Clift, S. Clift, Steve, Stevie, Steven: we cannot do this ☺
And that's not even getting into things such as the Asian culture in NZ
where it is common to have both the original Asian given name and the
English name in use.
When we have generalised search notifications, people will be able to
specify whatever term they like, at which time they will be able to list
all of their commonly used names.
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 15:06 +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> > why not expand it to "Recent posts by or mentioning this member by name"
Oh, and I also doubt that it's all that useful even on the most basic
level. If you put your name in your sig, and someone quotes the sig,
that post will match, which will result in an awful lot of false
positives (if you are just watching for topics, this isn't a concern).
