RSS Feeds

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:14 pm

Well, my suggestion is just based on the fact that I never really used RSS feeds myself, and compared to how often I visit the .org's main site or forums, I check emails rather rarely - so it would be nice to have it as a site feature for the lazy ones among us (not that it's a requisite or anything).

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:30 pm

Is it possible to raise the number of videos in the RSS feed to 10?

YouTube · Post by **derobert** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 11:58 pm

Corran wrote:Is it possible to raise the number of videos in the RSS feed to 10?

I suppose so; what is the normally accepted maximum size of an RSS feed? The new_videos.xml feed is ~6K right now, if I went to 10 videos it'd of course be around 12K.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:02 am

I don't know, I just figured that sometimes more than five videos are uploaded in an hour so the current rss won't cover them all unless the number of videos is increased or it updated more often.

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:58 pm

I have a suggestion for how the feed should be displayed. Or at least, an option for it. First off, I'll show you how I'm viewing/applying it, since I think at least a handful of people would be interested in it.

I made 2 new syndication feeds on LiveJournal. What this lets me do is actually view RSS feeds on my friends page as new journal entries. These have become very popular and useful for things like web comics, new sites, etc. The two feeds are:

amvorg_newvideo

amvorg_starweek

Well, this suggestion is based around the New Videos feed since that's the only one I've seen in action thus far. If you go to that feeds info, you'll see that it makes an individual post for each video, which isn't necesarilly a BAD thing. However, in this instance, it means that you now have 5 new entries on your friend's page, each one with the video's full description on it. Now while some people might not mind that, I personally think it takes up quite a bit of room.

So while I'm not necesarilly suggesting we do away with that feed all together, I am suggesting an alternative way of displaying it. And let me say that I honestly don't know that much about XML/RSS so I don't really know how complicated this would be. But if it were doable, that'd be awesome

How I'm suggesting it look is the following (and I will just go ahead and use the 5 current new videos as the example):

<ul><li><b><a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... ic_Kaos</a> - <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... 25">Heaven on Earth?</a></b>
Anime: Haibane Renmei (Charcoal Feathers Federation) - Artist: Lamb - Song: Heaven
Posted On: 3:41pm, 6th December 2004
<li><b><a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... pically</a> - <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... 5923">Full Circle</a></b>
Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion (End of Evangelion) - Artist: Tool - Song: Prison Sex
Posted On: 3:13pm, 6th December 2004
<li><a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... Karchan</a> - <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... Nakahito's Kiss</a>
Anime: Steel Angel Kurumi - Artist: Cher - Song: The Shoop Shoop Song
Posted On: 3:35am, 6th December 2004
<li><a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... deValkyrie[/b]</a> - <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... >[b]Lonely Tears[/b]</a>
Anime: Escaflowne - The Movie (A Girl in Gaia), Vision of Escaflowne, The - Artist: Goo Goo Dolls - Song: Iris
Posted On: 7:41pm, 5th December 2004
<li><a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... 863">Majin Baka</a> - <A href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... 55837">the ninja phenomenon</a>
Anime: Naruto - Artist: Thousand Foot Krutch - Song: Phenomenon
Posted On: 2:51pm, 5th December 2004
</ul>

Keep in mind, that list of 5 would be included in one single updated, not 5 individual (however, if that were the only way to make it work, having it format this way would still be better, rather than including the long description)

I understand that doing this would probably take a significant amount of coding and that RSS feeds aren't exactly a high priority for the site, but at least keep it in mind.

As I was typing this up, the Weekly Top Star Scale feed updated and WOW... heh.... quite worse than the new videos, as it makes 20 new posts on my friends page

So, if it were possible to format that one this way:

<ol><li>Video Title 1 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 2 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 3 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 4 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 5 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 6 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 7 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 8 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 9 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 10 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 11 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 12 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 13 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 14 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 15 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 16 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 17 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 18 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 19 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #.
<li>Video Title 20 - Creator Name - Score #: # stars with an average of #. </ol>

Obviously, each of these would be links to the individual video. Granted this is still a fairly long/large feed, it certainly beats getting 20 individual posts, and it provides useful information.

Anyways, take these ideas into consideration

I would offer to help you code all of this if I had any idea what I was doing with RSS/XML

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:40 pm

I've been using the mail client Mozilla Thunderbird to manage my RSS feeds and I've noticed that the new video feed doesn't update often at all. According to the feed there were six new videos on the 4th and only 4 on the 30th of last month. There have difinately been more videos than that though. I'm not sure what would need to be done to make it update more often...
About the number of articles per thread... a fansub distrobution site uses as many as 20 but the number was actually dynamic based on how many entries they had within a certain time. ESPN had about 15 and I saw one news website with about 30. Most seem to be close to 10 though.

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:45 pm

Corran wrote:I've been using the mail client Mozilla Thunderbird to manage my RSS feeds and I've noticed that the new video feed doesn't update often at all. According to the feed there were six new videos on the 4th and only 4 on the 30th of last month. There have difinately been more videos than that though. I'm not sure what would need to be done to make it update more often...
About the number of articles per thread... a fansub distrobution site uses as many as 20 but the number was actually dynamic based on how many entries they had within a certain time. ESPN had about 15 and I saw one news website with about 30. Most seem to be close to 10 though.

Keep in mind that as far as I can tell, it only posts new Local videos. At least as far as I can tell.

*hopes his long ass post at the bottom of page 1 doesnt get lost in the shuffle

*

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:53 pm

True, but as can be seen through the daily upload stats on the member main page there are a lot of new videos uploaded that aren't making it onto the feed.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:57 pm

Actually this may be a "New Video on the Block" problem not the RSS feed. The articles I have in my client mirror the "New Videos on the Block". Obviously though it isn't getting updated often...

AtomX wrote:*hopes his long ass post at the bottom of page 1 doesnt get lost in the shuffle *

Sorry about that.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:48 pm

the list that appears on http://www.animemusicvideos.org/RSS/star_weekly.xml has been the top star scale list from week 47 for the past few weeks. can someone fix it so that it always lists the top star scale from the most recent week?