October 08, 2007
Minx doesn't email you when new comments or private messages arrive.
It could - it would be easy to do - but I don't want to be sending out
thousands (and eventually millions) of emails a day. There are all
sorts of problems with being a high-volume email source, and I'd rather
simply not go there.
But it's very useful to be alerted to
incoming comments (and private messages!) without having to visit your
site every ten minutes. So how else can this be achieved?
Well,
there's RSS. Minx already supports automatic RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds
(and you can customise it to support other formats). Why not add an
RSS feed of comments?
Comments are public, so an RSS feed of
them isn't an issue. (Not true of private messages, but we'll get to
that.) But maybe you don't want everyone to see spam or unapproved
comments. Well, you can set up a hidden feed. Or the system can do
that automatically for you. If your public comment feed is at
http://mysite.mee.nu/feed/comments, and your private comment feed is
at, say, http://mysite.mee.nu/feed/comments/aj69c0, you'd have to try
an average of a billion combinations before getting access to someone's
private comment feed.
There would be a link in the editing interface so you could subscribe with one click, and easy-peasy, comment notification.
I
could certainly do the same with private messages. If you're sensitive
about those and worried about that 1 in a billion chance, I can have an
option where the RSS feed only shows the arrival of a new message, and
not the sender or contents.
I could also do secured feeds, but that's more fiddly and many popular readers don't support them.
So, what do you think?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
02:50 AM
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Posted by: Will at October 08, 2007 04:21 AM (E3UGR)

But I think the RSS feeds would also be useful.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 08, 2007 04:31 AM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Ogre at October 08, 2007 10:50 AM (oifEm)
Posted by: Old Grouch at October 09, 2007 12:43 AM (5RhlR)
Posted by: Dan Collins at October 26, 2007 12:21 AM (JSYrn)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2007 09:46 AM (PiXy!)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2007 11:58 AM (PiXy!)
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