I’m monkeying with things and uncovered a bit of an error on an old post. So on the one hand - awesome! On the other hand, sorry about the flood of old posts. This was a result of some malformed xml for the atom feed due to the error I found. (On a side note, did you know that we have a PIXLS.US atom/rss feed?)
We also have rss feeds for just about any place on discuss as well. Just try adding a .rss to the end of various urls on the site. For instance, if you want a feed of just the Processing category:
It is not added in the URL. But it becomes even more strange: When I click the link I get the error message. When I hit reload in my Firefox 44.0 I get the RSS feed. When I then hit the back button of FF I am still presented with the RSS and I need to hit the reload button again to come back to the site. Something to do with the js, or is it FF?
Aha! Thank you, I just noticed it as well. Odd. I get the same behavior.
If you middle-click or open in a new tab/window it works fine also. I may have to file a bug report (but let me update the forum software first to make sure it hasn’t already been addressed).
It has to have something todo with the js, when I copy the URL and open it in a new tab, there is no problem. Maybe not the js but the js implementation in FF.
No problem, but I wonder where the UI for the RSS feeds is. It is no surprise that RSS is so unimportant nowadays when every web software hides its existence. Maybe you can add this feature request into your discourse bug report. However, discuss.pixls.us is important enough to stay open in a permanent tab on all my machines, and all new articles on the main site are announced in discuss as well, so no RSS needed here .
They don’t have any UI for the RSS feeds (not sure what that would look like). You can add the .rss to many places manually to get the feed. Even sub-categories:
But works with JPEG (updated the response above with the picture as a very bad jpeg, the one output by eog, just for testing, will update again when png works again).
Have you tried another image of some sort to see if it’s still not working? Or maybe trying a different browser (or a hard refresh to clear the cache)? I want to make sure this isn’t still broken…
Thanks for reminding me, I tried again (see above) and now it seems to work. But it is still slow, like 20 seconds for the small, 15 kB png. And it hangs at 100%. The jpeg of similar size was much faster yesterday, and it’s the same Gbps “direct” connection to the internet. But since it seems to work again or to be a problem on my side, feel free to delete all the noise .
K, since it is a meta topic I don’t feel too bad about having hijacked this thread . Actually, 2 times, the RSS topic was already a hijack. Hm, but maybe the noise prevents us from seeing the real contents, the rss is still not working as expected with left click after the update ;-). (It may not be a real problem, though.)
There’s already discussion about the RSS icon idea:
I’m wondering if we shouldn’t simply make a post in Meta that directs folks to the links for all the various .rss/.json feed options that are out there, and just point them to that?
I’ll test the resolution issue on meta.discourse.org and if it persists I’ll file a bug report on their side. My guess is something in the link/js causing it to not resolve properly (which is weird, because if you follow the link, get the error, then refresh the page - it works…).
but I get “not found” errors after reload. But it seems to be prone to the same error. It seems that the link is not opened as external link but within the site context and the js still running, maybe because it’s no external URL. One could play with the sandbox on discourse.org but unfortunately I have no time at the moment.
: The rss link does not work and gives a
I may have to file a bug report (but let me update the forum software first to make sure it hasn’t already been addressed).
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