Monday January 09, 2006
An opensolaris.org hack: customisable RSS feeds
In a (rather futile!) attempt to keep my email volume down slightly I've taken to reading some of the OpenSolaris mailing lists / forums via the RSS feeds provided by the site. I use the most excellent Sage plugin for Firefox. You can find a list of all the available opensolaris.org RSS feeds here - there are four (!) variants for each OpenSolaris forum, plus roll-up feeds for each group of forums. Be aware that there's a glitch on the webpage and the feed type icons are mislabelled - the "Threads" (one big speech bubble) and "Messages" (two small speech bubbles) labels are transposed, although I'm sure Derek will have that sorted out shortly - if you hover over the icons in the feed list, the "Threads" URLs all contain
One of my favorite feeds is the popular threads feed, which shows you the threads with the most activity. I also subscribe to a few individual forum feeds, such as the OpenSolaris discuss one, but something that has always niggled me is that you only see the last 10 threads, which really isn't enough. However it is possible to change this by modifying the bookmark you use for the feed - simply stick
Posted by alanbur
( Jan 09 2006, 11:07:19 AM GMT )
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rssthreads.jspa and the "Messages" links contain rssmessages.jspa.
&numItems=20 on the end of the bookmark URL. The full list of options are called out in the Jive documentation. Unfortunately, despite what the documentation suggests this doesn't work for "popular threads" feeds, which is a shame.
