Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Use Reader and send me your "shared" feed please. http://www.google.com/reader

That goes for Sticks and anyone else interested. Here is the deal, even though Reader seems a bit slow to me at times, it is a heckofa nice RSS reader overall. What interests me even more than having a bunch of random feeds to read myself though, is what catches YOUR eye. So if you get yourself setup with Reader, and then just click the "Share" thing while you are perusing your feeds (if you find anything share-worthy) - and give me your shared feed - then we will have a consolidated view of "interesting stuff" here in the "News aggregator" area.

Send the shared feeds my direction, please.

I want the negative feedback, so I appreciate the note. But honestly I am not sure what "close in structure" means?, and I do not pay very close attention to hit counts, I just listen to what people are saying on the site. So if you think something should be different, please explain, I don't really want to alienate anyone, but I will have no idea unless I hear it.

As for the "posted 10 times" thing, that was really just to get content migrated over, all the content for people with under ten posts was also moved, but just lumped in together. You did not lose anything though if I did not migrate your account over, we basically all just created new accounts on the new setup, even me - and then I associated posts with the new accounts (so if you did not have any posts, you did not lose anything?).

And that sort of goes to what I think, and I guess hope, is the important part of TotSP, the content. We really don't have anything new, feeds, quotes, and so on, other than the original content. I think a lot of that content looks better in this format, but I do miss the old news sources.

Guess I could write a Drupal user customizable RSS reader (if one does not already exist) ;).

Fair points, all of them. Appreciate the feedback.

I have not noticed any Firefox issues personally but on specific pages I guess the content could bleed into the fixed sidebars (what pages have you noticed this? what platform - I use FF on the Mac and have noticed this once or twice but fixed those pages). As for the RSS feeds, yeah, I miss them too - I just dont use an external "reader" as much as I thought I would (old habit I guess). I am going to work on putting them back somehow (if I have to write my own Drupal module, so be it).

As to the content being a bit more fluff, I agree. Part of that though is not the format, but just that we have been ultra busy with the damn book - and part of it is that posting full on HTML actually works so people can link videos and so on (I do not typically do that, but others do).

The rants will certainly be back when we have time to focus our rage ;).

I think the overall "solution" to this though is going to be some kind of a conglomerate. We really needed to modernize the TotSP code (which I wrote most of back in 98 or so the first round), so that we could have Technorati pings, trackbacks, better input format handling, just overall be more modern and modular - but at the same time we do not want to alienate existing users nor lose anything that was already good about TotSP.

So, though I do not have time at the moment, look for more changes to try to accommodate this stuff when the time becomes available, though I do not think we will be going back to the old code.