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Re: The Forum is now "Feed friendly"

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https://pcloscloud.com/index.php/s/kwcC4dF94oBhcUF

In .conky these files will run a window or a direct screen write
depending on which Bogle-RSS-? file is used for conky.

Here's a picture of the window.

http://myphotos.mypclinuxos.com/images/ ... 180150.png
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Thanks!

Here's a screenshot of my conky window: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8VSNc ... sp=sharing In this configuration, I prefer a compact feed (single line spacing). The window is transparent.

Your script still isn't working, I'm not sure why.

In any case, the python script handles HTML escape characters - which do appear in the atom feed output.
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LadyGeek wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:04 pm
Your script still isn't working, I'm not sure why.
Well if the python script is working, it's probably made by a full-timer.
The old script wasn't python of course. If the window and direct screen
write config's I did don't work someone please let me know. I just rebooted
and the direct screen write looks fine.
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http://myphotos.mypclinuxos.com/images/ ... 125440.png

https://pcloscloud.com/index.php/s/9PGEoJwOJNmYT94

My machine was locking up so I wrote conky config's in the new
and proper syntax req'd for the newer versions of conky. Now
it doesn't lock up.
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sfchris wrote: Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:20 pm This is great! I am a holdout who still monitors most of my forums via RSS. Glad I can do it for BH.

One suggestion: Could you eliminate the subforum name from the topic titles? It makes it hard to scan through the topic list because they are so similar and so long.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/mYaE93o.jpg
Since this thread got bumped, I thought I would see if anything new has turned up that can solve the problem of subforum names in topic titles?

I use my.yahoo as my reader of choice and so the scripting solutions provided so far don't help.
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sfchris wrote: Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:58 pm
sfchris wrote: Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:20 pm This is great! I am a holdout who still monitors most of my forums via RSS. Glad I can do it for BH.

One suggestion: Could you eliminate the subforum name from the topic titles? It makes it hard to scan through the topic list because they are so similar and so long.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/mYaE93o.jpg
Since this thread got bumped, I thought I would see if anything new has turned up that can solve the problem of subforum names in topic titles?

I use my.yahoo as my reader of choice and so the scripting solutions provided so far don't help.
Ever try Sage, a Firefox add-on
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^^^ I've been using it for years. It's very compact, clean, no fluff. Sage :: Add-ons for Firefox
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LadyGeek wrote: Thu Aug 31, 2017 9:33 pm ^^^ I've been using it for years. It's very compact, clean, no fluff. Sage :: Add-ons for Firefox
Thank you. But I am kind of addicted to my.yahoo for news reading due to it's newspaper like layout and extreme compactness (which I have tweaked further using other extensions).

You mentioned that you would follow up with PHPBB forums to see if anything can be done... did you hear anything back?
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The latest version of Sage severely corrupts toolbar configuration! Please do not install that Add-on unless you have a backup of your profile.

This happened to me and I am still recovering. Several other users have also reported this in the reviews.
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sfchris wrote: Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:46 am The latest version of Sage severely corrupts toolbar configuration! Please do not install that Add-on unless you have a backup of your profile.

This happened to me and I am still recovering. Several other users have also reported this in the reviews.
My Sage says it's updated thru FF 54 and is presently working. Also, every
add-on is going to need an update after FF 56. Major FF rewrite obsoleting
add-ons I've heard.
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FYI I hacked together some new RSS feeds. My goal was to surface fewer threads than any of the existing feeds. What I ended up doing was producing one feed per forum, with only a single entry for every thread that exceeds 50 replies.

Personal Investments:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rssc ... heads1.xml

Personal Finance:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rssc ... heads2.xml

Investing - Theory, News & General:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rssc ... eads10.xml

Personal Consumer Issues:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rssc ... eads11.xml
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Nice hack. Python is my next language of interest, so I'm not quite up to speed yet.

In settings.py line 20, the timezone is hard-coded:

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        'timezone': 'Etc/GMT-7',  # footer says "All times are UTC-07:00"
The displayed timezone depends on the user. If you are logged in, it displays your UTC offset as configured in the User Control Panel.

If you are not logged in (user == 'Guest'), it's US Central time (All times are UTC-05:00).
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LadyGeek wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 3:44 pm If you are not logged in (user == 'Guest'), it's US Central time (All times are UTC-05:00).
Good catch! Fixed.
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18_bank_accounts wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:38 am FYI I hacked together some new RSS feeds. My goal was to surface fewer threads than any of the existing feeds. What I ended up doing was producing one feed per forum, with only a single entry for every thread that exceeds 50 replies.

Personal Investments:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rssc ... heads1.xml

Personal Finance:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rssc ... heads2.xml

Investing - Theory, News & General:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rssc ... eads10.xml

Personal Consumer Issues:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rssc ... eads11.xml
Has something changed? These feeds haven't returned results for me in about 21-22 days, according to my feed reader.
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Did they stop on February 9, 2021? That's when we moved to the cloud: Re: Site Migration - 2021-02-09 at 05:30 EST [Site offline] Our IP address changed.

This site's RSS feeds are working fine.
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I subscribe to two of those feeds, not all of them. Feedly, my RSS reader, tells me that one of them stopped working 22 days ago, and the other 21 days ago. I wonder if that one-day difference is simply a function of when the feed refreshes. Anyway, that puts the date they stopped working at roughly February 25th-26th.
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18_bank_accounts wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:38 am FYI I hacked together some new RSS feeds. My goal was to surface fewer threads than any of the existing feeds. What I ended up doing was producing one feed per forum, with only a single entry for every thread that exceeds 50 replies.
The below conky config is still working, smoother than
before it seems. Only item I wish it sent 15 new messages
instead of only 10. Sometimes the screen writes are
less than 10 messages, should be full 10 messages at all
times I would think. Some adjustment to python ?

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conky.config = { 
minimum_height = 5,
minimum_width = 325,
maximum_width = 325,
temperature_unit = celsius,
net_avg_samples = 1,
cpu_avg_samples = 1,
diskio_avg_samples = 1,
background = true,
update_interval = 10,
double_buffer = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'normal',
own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below, sticky, skip_taskbar, skip_pager',
own_window_title = 'Conky',
gap_x = 25,
gap_y = 25,
alignment = 'top_right',
use_xft = true,
font = 'arial narrow:bold:size=14',
out_to_console = false,
out_to_stderr = false,
extra_newline = false,
no_buffers = false,
uppercase = false,
use_spacer = 'none',
show_graph_scale = false,
show_graph_range = false,
stippled_borders = 0,
default_color = '444444',

color1 = 'lightgray',
color2 = 'lightblue',

color3 = 'lightblue',
color4 = 'gold',
color5 = 'steelblue1',
color6 = 'ffffff',

default_outline_color = 'white',
default_shade_color = 'white',
draw_borders = false,
border_width = 1,
draw_graph_borders = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_shades = false,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 255,
text_buffer_size = 4096,
}


conky.text = [[
$color6${exec python $HOME/.conky/old/phpBB_atom_feed.py | fold -s -w40 }
]]

Image
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Cornbread wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 7:22 pm I subscribe to two of those feeds, not all of them. Feedly, my RSS reader, tells me that one of them stopped working 22 days ago, and the other 21 days ago. I wonder if that one-day difference is simply a function of when the feed refreshes. Anyway, that puts the date they stopped working at roughly February 25th-26th.
I just fixed them. If anyone is interested, it looks like with the move to the cloud, the site started returning HTTP 403 errors for basic programatic GET requests. The fix was to pretend to be a browser.
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See this post by the site owner and server admin, mingstar: Re: Site Migration - 2021-02-09 at 05:30 EST [Site offline]

The new configuration passes everything through a load balancer. I'm fairly sure that's why the response changed.

(Sorry, I won't go into details.)
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LadyGeek wrote: Sun Nov 13, 2016 3:51 pm Perhaps, but enabling the built-in feeds has minimal impact on server performance. It doesn't hurt to turn them on, and it helps members (and lurkers!) to keep track of things.

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I should have done this earlier, but the RSS feed link on the home page has been changed to point to the forum's default atom feed.

The URL is:

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https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/feed.php
If anyone is detecting a "true" RSS feed on the home page, please post here.
I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but, I have used this for years and it still looks like it worked this morning:

https://www.bogleheads.org/rss/?forum=1&view=new
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This is a highly populated RSS stream, is there a way to limit it to "hot/best" posts?
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The closest thing we have is Active topics, but I tried hacking the feed URL and it didn't seem to work.
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hiddenpower wrote: Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:59 am This is a highly populated RSS stream, is there a way to limit it to "hot/best" posts?
Further up the thread, someone hacked together something similar. I've used them for some time and they work well.

viewtopic.php?p=5319471&sid=b15841c2b8b ... 4#p5319471
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Cornbread wrote: Tue Aug 03, 2021 3:57 pm
hiddenpower wrote: Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:59 am This is a highly populated RSS stream, is there a way to limit it to "hot/best" posts?
Further up the thread, someone hacked together something similar. I've used them for some time and they work well.

viewtopic.php?p=5319471&sid=b15841c2b8b ... 4#p5319471
I've been using this. It's much preferred to the clutter that comes with the main RSS feed which has a lot of topic duplication since each new comment pushes a new item into the feed. However, this feed here does seem a little sparse no? I only see a a handful of topics per day.
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hiddenpower wrote: Sun Nov 21, 2021 9:29 am
Cornbread wrote: Tue Aug 03, 2021 3:57 pm
hiddenpower wrote: Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:59 am This is a highly populated RSS stream, is there a way to limit it to "hot/best" posts?
Further up the thread, someone hacked together something similar. I've used them for some time and they work well.

viewtopic.php?p=5319471&sid=b15841c2b8b ... 4#p5319471
I've been using this. It's much preferred to the clutter that comes with the main RSS feed which has a lot of topic duplication since each new comment pushes a new item into the feed. However, this feed here does seem a little sparse no? I only see a a handful of topics per day.
I guess that's the tradeoff. It's fine for me and far better than the firehose of a full feed. The downside is that by the time a thread shows up in my RSS reader it's already 50+ replies in length and often the thread is already petering out, so the chances of me interacting with the conversation in any meaningful way is lower.
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