Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

If you want to play around with the new Java based penguin, click here

If you go ot the temp user reg you can create a user. You will just get a blank page if it works for now.

The new penguin has a couple of design paradigm shifts from the current one.

1. Feeds are now broken up into "Clusters". This is just a container, really. Clusters have one notable option: Composite. If you set composite=true then you will see one box with all the entries from all the feeds you put in that cluster intermingled with each other. If you set composite=false, you will get a DHTML tabbed view in the box for each feed.

Also, check out the "expand" function. Rather than crop the feeds to the first few entries, it now uses a sized div to scroll around. Expand will break it out so you can see the whole feed/composite.

2. CHECK OUT THE SIDEBAR. I love it. It will show you all the feeds you have, not just the penguin content. It works in MSIE, Opera and the Geckos.

3. The skins are a little incomplete right now. I just added the Header/Footer/Left/Right stuff, so the CSS is incomplete/non-existent for some of them.

4. You can add your own feeds now! Anyone can add a feed to the site. Once a feed is added, it will become a master record for everyone to see in the select list.

NB: If you try to add a feed and it goes away and doesn't come back for a long time, log out, log back in and re-add the feed selecting "Autodiscover Icon: No". There is a problem with the JAI thingy on some .ico files and it will hang up.

The universal "I had a problem" answer right now is "Log out, Log back in and try again".

Also of note, You should be able to use any kind of feed, including Atom. There are a couple of bugs with Rome right now on feeds that have the update schedule information in them. I will work on correcting this sometime.

There is no guaratee of uptime, or that I won't nuke the DB and start over (that is rare), but feel free to test it out. This is literally my in-development server, so it comes and goes. If you see any big issues, drop me an email and let me know.