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Gary Glass · January 6, 2006

Am I correct that feeds are only updated when new galleries are added? Here's what I wish I could do: I would like to have a gallery called, say, "The Daily Photo", and every time I add a photo to it, the feed updates. Can I do this?

Andy · January 6, 2006

Gary Glass wrote:

Am I correct that feeds are only updated when new galleries are added? Here's what I wish I could do: I would like to have a gallery called, say, "The Daily Photo", and every time I add a photo to it, the feed updates. Can I do this?

Sounds perfect! And yes, that's the way feeds work.
http://www.smugmug.com/help/rss-atom-feeds

docwalker · January 6, 2006

Andy,

This relates back to my thread about the email functionality. It appears that the pubdate is created on the day that the feed is created and does not change. Some of the feed readers look at this date to detect when new data has changed in the feed. I am not sure if this will cause any problems with a daily photo gallery. This is a cool idea either way.

This is one of the reasons why many blog editors use a publish feature. This "publishing" updates the pubdate so that the readers can detect it. Blogger is one of them.

Gary Glass · January 6, 2006

Are you sure it works that way? I use Omea reader and I don't think it sees an update when I add a photo to a gallery. I think we may be talking about 2 different things. Here's what the feeds doc says (thanks for linking it):

User homepage. The feed includes the 10 most recently modified galleries.
User gallery. The feed includes the 10 most recently added photos.

Which is cool. But what I'd like is for the user to subscribe to the homepage and see updates when a photo is added to any gallery. Rather than having to subscribe to each gallery individually. (I admit it I didn't put it this way in my original post; I was the using the daily photo idea to illustrate, but I didn't explain that very well.) See what I'm after? I want my fans to be able to subscribe to my site and get a notice whenever I add anything new. Just as when you subscribe to a blog, you typically get a notice whenever a new entry is made. That is, what I really want is a sitewide subscription for all photos. Doable?

docwalker · January 6, 2006

Gary,

It sounds like you and I are working on the same thing. I have added the feedblitz subscription service to my site. It works. But, it does not detect changes because the pubdate does not change.

Doc

Gary Glass · January 6, 2006

docwalker wrote:

It sounds like you and I are working on the same thing. I have added the feedblitz subscription service to my site. It works. But, it does not detect changes because the pubdate does not change.

Feedblitz looks cool. I'd definitely like to implement it. So, Lords Of The Smug, can we have what we want?

docwalker · January 6, 2006

Gary, SM may not have to do anything to get this working.

Check this thread: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=224070#post224070

I did some research on the RSS specifications and I think that Atom will be a btter feed. Atom is also compatible with feedblitz. It will take 24 hours to test. I will let you know the results.

Gary Glass · January 6, 2006

docwalker wrote:

Gary, SM may not have to do anything to get this working.

Check this thread: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=224070#post224070

I did some research on the RSS specifications and I think that Atom will be a btter feed. Atom is also compatible with feedblitz. It will take 24 hours to test. I will let you know the results.

Appreciate it! And I agree with a comment you made in the linked thread: this is something SM might want to consider offering in future!

jcdill · January 30, 2006

Gary Glass wrote:

But what I'd like is for the user to subscribe to the homepage and see updates when a photo is added to any gallery.

Andy · January 30, 2006

jcdill wrote:

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jcdill · January 30, 2006

What part are you confused about?

I just created a new Smugmug site for a discussion group to use to share photos. The format is for each member of the group to create an album and then put their photos in their album. I'd like to enable our discussion group subscribers to subscribe to the gallery via RSS or ATOM and then be notified if there are new *photos* in *any* gallery. So when Jane Doe uploads new photos into her Jane Doe gallery, the RSS feed shows the actual new photos and not just that there are (some) new photos in Jane's gallery. Otherwise, if Jane uploaded new photos two days ago, and again today, and John Doe uploaded new photos today after Jane's new photos, users who saw Jane's new photos yesterday won't "know" that there are even more new photos today without actually going into her gallery to see them. Does that make sense?

Andy · January 30, 2006

jcdill wrote:

What part are you confused about?

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jcdill · January 30, 2006

Andy wrote:

I don't know what <ObAOL> means <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif" border="0" alt="" >

It stands for Obligatory AOL reference. It indicates that replying "me too" (and nothing else) is similar to how an AOLer participated in a discussion forum in the era when AOLers were new to "the internet" (circa 1995). They frequently posted in ways similar to how they posted on AOL, which were not in keeping with the ways other internet users were posting at the time.

Andy · January 30, 2006

jcdill wrote:

It stands for Obligatory AOL reference. It indicates that replying "me too" (and nothing else) is similar to how an AOLer participated in a discussion forum in the era when AOLers were new to "the internet" (circa 1995). They frequently posted in ways similar to how they posted on AOL, which were not in keeping with the ways other internet users were posting at the time.

AOL was good to me, once

. Believe it or not, in 1994 I was andy@aol.com - shudda kept that email addy, huh? Thanks for the explanation!

docwalker · January 31, 2006

I have been playing with this off and on now for several weeks. The pubdate thing is still giving me problems. So I will wait to see if that gets changed in one of the future updates.

Gary Glass · January 31, 2006

docwalker wrote:

I have been playing with this off and on now for several weeks. The pubdate thing is still giving me problems. So I will wait to see if that gets changed in one of the future updates.

Please, God. Or SmugMug. Whoever can get to it first!

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