In general, this isn't what I had pictured from the suggestion of
aggregating RSS feeds from the front-end projects. The page, as it is,
looks essentially like pageflakes or iGoogle, and I think that kind of
functionality is better left to those sites.
What I had thought you were suggesting was that we supplement the
existing news feed at http://crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp with news
pulled in from other RSS feeds. Not that I've looked at the code or
anything, but this should be relatively trivial. This also has the
advantage of putting everything in the same pot. As you have it, there
are separate boxes for a number of apps and one box for everything else,
which will tend to give the apps with separate boxes much more exposure
(even if their news is extremely old).
As to the content itself:
- We really should not be republishing forum updates to any kind of news
page. It's just encouraging further spam and is of no discernible value
to most users. Those who want to read forum updates can find the forum
RSS feeds or just check the forums constantly.
- SVN updates of all types are similarly not appropriate to a general
news page. They're mostly noise to the casual user. (Again, those with
an interest should find the appropriate feeds or subscribe to the
mailing list.)
- Twitter feeds are artificially short, without needing to be so in this
context. Twitter also represents a considerably different type of
discourse from blogs, with different levels of formality and different
audiences. I don't know that the two can types can be successfully
intermixed.
--Chris
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