New Feature: Feed!
For the first time in two weeks, I’m unveiling a new feature here - a beta RSS feed for Wasting Precious Time. You can get the feed here: http://sector7g-zz9.com/wpt/stories.xml and use it to see the latest stories at WPT. It’s still not ready for prime time, so if you encounter any issues with it, don’t be shocked and please let me know, here or via email. If you’re not familiar with how to use a feed, read up on aggregators.
I have a few other new features I hope to complete in the coming weeks - the ability to send a caption to a friend, adding capperwiki profiles to WPT, and a minituarized version of IS’ front page, especially made to be iframed and placed on your own web pages. Let me know if any of those sound like they’re worth finishing.
June 9th, 2006 at 7:58 am
The aggregator stuff is great. I’m using it in Bloglines, and so far it works fine. I noticed that the first time it pulled entries, the older ones didn’t have saved pictures, but all of the recent ones have. Also, I like the format (first picture & caption displayed - enough of a teaser to let me decide if I want to read the rest of the story)
June 9th, 2006 at 8:01 am
Oh, and if you’re looking for new features to add, you could repost an entry for a story if someone has added a comment. In which case you could display the comment count somewhere in the entry, or maybe even “Comment added by whosit”.
June 9th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
I always thought it would be a good feature to put a shoutbox on the IS gallery to the side somewhere
June 9th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
I’ll admit. Chat is one of those features I’ve resisted putting on, since the gallery already works as a chat room, more or less. Adding real time chat might thorw off the ‘delicate’ balance between capping and chatting that we have now. However, a shoutbox with a slow refresh (~25 secs?) might work.
June 11th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
I vote, no shoutbox. Let the innate conservatism (or, loyalty to the old MST3K & CT! school) of capping be directed at this, rather than at some more major upgrade or innovation (see CapperWiki.com, The future of capping page.)