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Community feeds are now available
Written by Colin Devroe on January 17, 2006
By far one of the most frequently requested features that our members, and our readers, have asked for were feeds per Community. I’m happy to announce that I’m finally ready to release our Community feeds for your consumption. A little explanation is needed first though.
What are feeds?
For those of you reading this, that have no idea what a “feed” is, we’ve jotted down a fairly simple explanation of what feeds are. We’ve also pointed to a few of the more popular applications, and Web services, that are used to consume the feeds. In addition to these services we’ve linked to a couple of great articles that will help to explain in even greater detail how you can utilize feeds to keep up with the 9rules Network and its members.
How do you get them?
There are a few ways to find the Community feeds. If you are using a modern browser ( meaning that it has feed-detection built-in ) you can visit any of our Communities and your browser will alert you of the existence of a feed. If you’d like to view a complete list of our Community feeds, we’ve built one for you. It keeps itself up-to-date, so you can use that page as your point of reference to make sure you have the latest and greatest Community feeds.
A note about the feed contents
Each of our Community feeds are “digest only”. Slightly better than “headlines only”, but we’re only including a very small amount of our member’s posts within these digest only feeds. If you prefer full-content feeds, we suggest subscribing to our Member’s feeds directly.
Also of note, all content found within the 9rules Community feeds are copyright of their respective authors. Any unauthorized use of the content within these feeds will be responded to by our members, and the 9rules Network. Content syndication does not include the right to pirate the content, and we’re seeing this becoming more and more prevalent on the Internet – and we’re willing to stand behind our members content and act in their behalf if need be.
I’d like to thank our members, and all of our Community readers, for your patience while we made sure we got this setup correctly. We hope you enjoy keeping up-to-date with your favorite Communities.
January 17th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Finally, something worthwhile that 9rules has done!!!!
Nice goin’ Colin, you know I always had faith in you regarding the Community Feeds, and now you’ve delivered. It’s about time for my productivity to plunnnnge.
January 17th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
This is a great feature! However, now my bloglines defaults in Spanish after I tried to subscribe to one feed. Does anybody know how to turn it back to English?
Thanks in advance.
January 17th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Never Mind! Found it.. Had to “Choose English” as the main language in the main pages to get it back to the proper default. Quite strange.
January 17th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Thanks for the confidence Mike.
HART: Was it bloglines that went Spanish on you? Or our feeds? We do have the ability to provide Spanish feeds, so I wasn’t sure exactly what you were talking about…
January 17th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Colin .. it was Bloglines that went Spanish on me.
Now that I think back – I was here just before that catching up on my reading .. and was reading Mike’s post re: phoenixrealm and came to look at the site. I was curious to see the Spanish drop menu at the top and I did select Spanish. But, it didn’t translate this blog into spanish, it went to the main community page instead. I then used the drop menu AGAIN on the community page to turn it back to english and got an error message at this link (still do) http://9rules.com/en/browse/ when it goes through the drop menu selection. So, I “X”ed out the window and went back to my bloglines.
I then came into the post re: communities, and immediately I went into the community feed section, clicked on the first group’s feed (animal section) and right clicked my “Subscribe Me” script .. it happened when it loaded up the page that lets me sort the feed into a specific folder .. if that helps. After it went spanish on me, I didn’t add it to my bloglines.
Since I figured out how to set my options back to English in Bloglines, I have gone back and have added the feed for the animals (and other communities) to my bloglines with no switching.
I suspect it is a spanish drop down menu issue.
Hope that helps.
PS: I would be interested in knowing if people prefer RSS feeds for comments over the Subscribe-me email notifications .. I sure don’t, but .. I also like Internet Explorer :p
January 17th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Yeh Mike Rundle… I m with u… I think something is very nice is going to be happens…
Lets see…
January 17th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Yahoo! Finally a better way to keep track of 9rules blogs. Did you guys say you had a forum too?
January 17th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Ya! Finally something worthwhile! Gosh!
(just kidding — my life was empty before 9rules!)
Seriously though, this will be very helpful. Thanks, Colin!
January 17th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Lindsay: You’re welcome. Glad you can put it to good use.
January 17th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Hey Michael, we do have a forum, however it’s for our members only. Those crazy kids sure do post a lot, normally 100+ entries per day!
January 18th, 2006 at 10:49 am
Now 9rules becomes really useful to us readers. Thanks guys.
August 1st, 2006 at 7:03 am
*bump* so how do the community threads work now?