User talk:Dr ishmael/Archive 5

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Ever found a way to make the "RSS" and "Atom" feed options useful? I haven't. I also ask you since frankly I don't understand what they do. :p (T/C) 22:22, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Honestly, I've never seen the point of RSS. Maybe I just don't comprehend it completely, but receiving alerts whenever something changes on a website just seems kinda pointless.  Maybe the concept has matured since I last paid much attention to it (which was when it was brand-new).  Anyway, to answer your question, no, I don't know if/how the RSS/Atom feeds can be made useful.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 01:28, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, so it's basically a redundant recent changes. -_- I suppose if we ever implementent any real-time-based things (auction, contest, etc.) it could be useful. It's strange since it has been there since this wiki began (almost) yet no one I know uses it for anything. So I wonder why it was implemented. Maybe it's just part of MediaWiki. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 03:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I believe you're correct, I found a short explanation here. I suppose it could be useful to a person who isn't that much of an RC-vulture, but still wants to know what's going on; or for someone who wants to keep tabs on new pages only - letting the RSS reader sound alerts when new pages are created would be more convenient for them than constantly refreshing Special:NewPages.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 04:39, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


 * It's nice for pages like Xkcd, which update irregularly (sp?). --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG|Ohaider!]]-- (s)talkpage  09:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


 * xkcd is regular, Monday-Wednesday-Friday - it says so on the page, and I haven't noticed him to miss in the month or so since I've been reading. For webcomics in general, I keep all the ones I follow in a bookmarks folder, and I use Firefox's "Open all in tabs" function to check them every day since many of them keep a news blog that sometimes updates on non-comic days.  If I felt like bothering with it, RSS might make that easier (for the ones that offer RSS feeds, anyway), but meh.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 13:31, 15 October 2008 (UTC)