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Dyyryath
07-25-2003, 01:46 AM
As you may have noticed, we've been working hard to keep the news updated around here. Things are quite a bit more lively than they had been for awhile. We've also added a 'Comments' feature to the news articles by tying them to a <a href="http://www.free-dc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=49">special area of our forums</a>. <br><br><b><a href="http://stats.zerothelement.com/cgi-bin/distributed-folding/render-user-detailed.pl?Id=12732">Darkness Productions</a></b> didn't think this was enough, though, so he started hassling me about adding an RSS feed for Free-DC. <img src=http://www.free-dc.org/images/news/icon41.gif><br><br>Well, thanks to him, we now have one. What's an RSS feed you ask? It's a way for various websites to exchange headlines between one another and (perhaps more importantly for us) for websites to publish headlines in a format that certain applications can take advantage of. For me, this means <a href="http://www.ximian.org/products/evolution/">Evolution</a>, which is my mail client of choice under Linux. Here's what they look in my mail client:<br><br><div align="center"><img src="/screenshots/ss-fdc-rss.png"></div><br><br>You can access this feed by pointing whatever you have that recognizes RSS feeds at the following URL:<br><br><div align="center"><a href="http://www.free-dc.org/rss.xml">http://www.free-dc.org/rss.xml</a></div><br><br>If you have any questions about this new feature, feel free take advantage of the feature we mentioned earlier, and post a comment to this item with your questions. <img src=http://www.free-dc.org/images/news/icon6.gif>

PY 222
07-25-2003, 01:58 AM
Wow... this is excellent work Dyy!

Although I don't need it because I religiously read the frontpage of Free-DC, I think it would be great for folks wanting headlines regarding DC news.

Great work mate :thumbs:

Darkness Productions
07-25-2003, 09:01 AM
Thanks Dyyryath! To those that stop by the IRC channel (irc.free-dc.org #lobby or #free-dc) we can now fetch those headlines through one of our resident bots, warlock.

Thanks again Dyyryath!

IronBits
07-25-2003, 09:22 AM
Nice going guys! :thumbs:

Moogie
07-25-2003, 11:37 AM
Great work!

DP hit me with this first thing this morning (before coffee). Really nice feature and works well over in IRC.

:thumbs:

PY 222
07-25-2003, 04:15 PM
IRC... damn, I had almost forgotten about the IRC channel.

Hmm... maybe I should visit you guys one of these days. :sleepy: