Please Fix RSS Feed

[Tempos]

I'm using Google Reader with various sources including MaxConsole and there is a small issue regarding a topics picture; they are displayed as a link to the attachment rather than being an image, e.g.

<a href="http://www.maxconsole.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=26282">Attachment 26282</a> instead of
<img src="http://www.maxconsole.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=26282" alt="" />

I understand if the links are provided intentionally for bandwidth purposes but please consider changing the text to 'img' or something small and adding a space between the attachment link and the first character of the articles body.

Lastly I was making a PHP script to host on my own server which addresses the issue and caches a smaller version of the picture (more mobile friendly) and encountered another problem: your feed is being submitted as ISO-8859-1 while the document itself declares itself as UTF-8 - this isn't hard to work around however, just adding it for completeness.

[Tempos]

Update: you're also wasting a huge amount of bandwidth by not caching images and requiring revalidation.

Update Again: I've created an RSS copy with the above issues fixed and a maximum image size of 320 horizontal pixels for quicker loading on mobile devices, check http://www.jmythic.org/rss/maxconsole/feed.php if you're interested - it updates every five minutes so information should be pretty upto date.

[ThreeDog]

Passed along. ^

[Tempos]

Thanks ThreeDog. I made a little mistake with the encoding statement, the documents are indeed UTF-8 as claimed to be, it's the server header that's sending out ISO-8859-1 - that should just take a header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8') in the RSS' PHP script to sort out.

[MaxMouseDLL]

Thanks ThreeDog. I made a little mistake with the encoding statement, the documents are indeed UTF-8 as claimed to be, it's the server header that's sending out ISO-8859-1 - that should just take a header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8') in the RSS' PHP script to sort out.

Ever saved a PHP script as UTF-8 instead of UTF-8(W/BOM)? makes me want to drill holes in my head...

[Tempos]

An FYI - my feed hadn't supported images for a couple of months, I've updated it to fix this. You can also use the shorter url: http://jmythic.org/rss/maxconsole.xml

[Brizzo]

Looked into this last night, and I thought I was a vBulletin guru. I have no clue what is wrong. Will investigate this weekend.

[Tempos]

Updated my code to scrape the contents of the frontpage: http://jmythic.org/rss/maxconsole.xml

[garyopa]

We are working on fixing the RSS setup, and should be done in a few days or less.

[deepakvermaseo]

It would be great to have a RSS and Atom feed for the news section of
the Debian main page of your website. I know that stuff one can already follow via mailing list, but a
lot of people these days uses feeds directly, I think we can offer a service to
more users offering both.

[garyopa]

Currently our Twitter @MaxConsoleTweet is working as good feed source, we still working on getting the RSS feed working right, has formatting issues.

[IBNobody]

Currently our Twitter @MaxConsoleTweet is working as good feed source, we still working on getting the RSS feed working right, has formatting issues.

Are you guys still working on this?

Maxconsole is the only site I follow that don't have on Pulse.

[garyopa]

Are you guys still working on this?

Maxconsole is the only site I follow that don't have on Pulse.

Yes we are still working on it, that a three other major bugs.

[Tempos]

Fixed: http://jmythic.org/rss/maxconsole.xml
Underground support: http://jmythic.org/rss/maxconsole.xml?underground

Merry Christmas everyone :very_drunk:

[garyopa]

Fixed: http://jmythic.org/rss/maxconsole.xml
Underground support: http://jmythic.org/rss/maxconsole.xml?underground

Merry Christmas everyone :very_drunk:

Even tho, I used the thanks feature for your post, I just had to reply also directly, and say thanks and merry christmas.