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[Jay]

I sent Toady a PM on this issue already, but now I realize perhaps I should have seen how widespread it was first.
Those of you with Firefox, do the individual Dev_Now entries appear in the Live Bookmark menu like in most other RSS feeds available on the web?

[Taritus]

Still blank...  I noticed in the dev logs Toady was testing out something, but apparently 'tis not working quite right yet.

[Toady One]

I wasn't testing anything to do with that, as I hadn't heard about this problem.  I'm not sure what's up.  It wasn't the lack of titles in the item entries as the PM speculated, as I have those, unless I'm not doing it correctly.  I don't know what other factors go into a feed getting recognized.

Here's the latest file (with most of the items snipped):


<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>Dwarf Fortress Development Log</title>
    <link>http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html</link>
    <description>DF development updates</description>
    <item>
      <title>10/12/2008</title>
      <description xml:space="preserve">I'm still slogging along.

Below, I'm testing the new list code (mainly for RSS).

   &lt;ul&gt;   
   &lt;li&gt;TEST 1&lt;/li&gt;

   
   &lt;li&gt;TEST 2&lt;/li&gt;

   
   &lt;li&gt;TEST 3&lt;/li&gt;

   
   &lt;li&gt;TEST 4&lt;/li&gt;

   
   &lt;li&gt;TEST 5&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;
</description>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

[Jay]

I wasn't testing anything to do with that, as I hadn't heard about this problem.  I'm not sure what's up.  It wasn't the lack of titles in the item entries as the PM speculated, as I have those, unless I'm not doing it correctly.  I don't know what other factors go into a feed getting recognized.

Here's the latest file (with most of the items snipped):
*snip*

Yeah, just after sending that PM, I went in and checked that stuff out myself.
(As you can use Internet Explorer on a .rss to view the source...  helpful)
From what I saw, everything *should* be working..
I'll poke around some other RSS feeds a bit, see what I can come up with.

Using a working Words of the Day feed from MSN, I have come up with the following:

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  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <rss version="2.0" xmlns:ResGet="EncartaApp:ResGet">
- <channel>
  <title>Words of the Day</title>
  <link>http://encarta.msn.com/</link>
  <language>en-us</language>
- <item>
  <title>What does 'effrontery' mean?</title>
  <link>http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861607614/effrontery.html</link>
  <description>shameless nerve</description>
  </item>
- <item>
  <title>What does 'buckram' mean?</title>
  <link>http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861593152/buckram.html</link>
  <description>stiff fabric</description>
  </item>
- <item>
  <title>What does 'mendacity' mean?</title>
  <link>http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861629225/mendacity.html</link>
  <description>telling of lies</description>
  </item>
  </channel>
  </rss>Could it, perhaps, be as simple as that very first line being missing from yours?  I can't imagine, but...
I'm also not sure as to the use of the xml:space="preserve" in your <description> tags...
Hmm.  This is intriguing.
It also could be perhaps that each entry requires its own URL...
I could see that, being that you'd want to click on the day and actually go to the day, rather then the very top of the page or another page altogether...
I can't imagine it'd be able to tell if it was actually a different URL or not, so that one seems simple enough to test...

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<link>http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html</link>In theory, you could put that in each item listing and something might happen...

[Karlito]

I have an empty feed as well.

[Iriel]

The problem does indeed seem to be that there's no <link> on each entry, if I copy the dev_now.rss file and add <link> entries after the title in each item then it shows up properly.

[Toady One]

Is that any better?  I've got the links in the items now, and I've added &lt; style paragraph breaks.  It all looks fine in the google reader for me.

[Shades]

For me the formatting is fine, however every time you do an update it seems to think the whole rss feed is marked as new (so I get the last 20 or whatever posts).

I'm using google reader if that makes a difference.

Edit: looking at the feed it's fine so I guess it's a problem in reader. I'm not sure what it uses to know what's old and what's new.

[Mithaldu]

It did it for me in the Opera RSS reader once, after deleting all the new ones and refreshing everything was fine.

If it persists for others, it might be helpful to add a guid element. [ http://www.w3schools.com/rss/rss_tag_guid.asp ]

[Tormy]

Hm I don't see any problems with the RSS feed, but I don't know too much about RSS to be honest, and I don't really care about it either. I'm visiting the dev site on a daily basis, maybe that's why hehe. 

*edit*

I forgot to add, that I am using IE 7 + 64bit Vista if that matters.

[Shades]

If it persists for others, it might be helpful to add a guid element. [ http://www.w3schools.com/rss/rss_tag_guid.asp ]

Ideally that would involve making http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_2008.html point to dev_now, adding basic anchors to the dev logs and then using those together for the permanent guid.  Could also use it for the link too so if you don't read the feed for a while it goes to that post rather than the top of the page.

All minor stuff though, I'll be happy as long as it doesn't keep marking everything as new. Could just be google reader got confused when you changed the format for the new lists and things.

[Dolohov]

Is that any better?  I've got the links in the items now, and I've added &lt; style paragraph breaks.  It all looks fine in the google reader for me.

Looks good for me now in Safari too.

[Jay]

Hm I don't see any problems with the RSS feed, but I don't know too much about RSS to be honest, and I don't really care about it either. I'm visiting the dev site on a daily basis, maybe that's why hehe. 

*edit*

I forgot to add, that I am using IE 7 + 64bit Vista if that matters.

Because he just fixed it.
And uh, yes, it works now, but that's a rather large number of entries...
Now we just need each entry to be anchored so your links link to them and not just to the page...

[Mr.Person]

After the latest RSS feed update, Opera marked every feed item as new and redownloaded them all. It's only done that this one time though.

[Toady One]

I had tried to set up the anchors yesterday, but my XML deficiencies stopped the process again.  I found a different syntax for it just now, so there may still be hope for that.  Or not.  I can't seem to get it to insert text with

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<a id="HERE"></a> because I don't know what I'm doing.

edit:  Okay, I've got simple anchors working between the HTML and RSS.  I don't know anything about redirecting from dev_2008 to dev_now, so there's kind of a temporary life on these things.