Lorenzo Barbieri @ Weblogs.Asp.Net

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Why "other" community blogs don't have aggregate feed? And why they generate RSS of more than 1 Mb?

So today is my "I want to find something to complain" day...

I like this community especially because of the aggregate feed. I want to know why "other" community blogs don't have the aggregate feed?

There are great communities here in Italy (like www.ugidotnet.org or www.devleap.com, but I can suggest a lot of other sites) that have blogs, they have a main page, they have RSS feeds, but they miss the aggregate feed of all their bloggers.

I miss it, because I cannot always go there to see if there is another interesting blogger...

Second thing... A lot of times I connect using my GPRS phone, and I cannot understand why I've to download RSS files longer than 1 Mb, with more than 300 items in them.

I prefer the .Text approach (at least for the aggregate feed), with only the list of the latest posts, that is much much much much, and what I can say more... MUCH FASTER to download... especially with the sucky GPRS bandwidth...

And also I don't know if it's a problem with SharpReader, but sometimes I found that all the items that I've deleted are in the Unread state... very boring...

 

Please don't flame on me, I want the best of all the communities and the sites that I use, and I like all the effort that all this people have put and will put everyday to make the .NET world better!!!

Comments

Lawrence Oluyede said:

Hi Lorenzo, I think that you're right, the RSS/Atom feed issue has to be more and more explained to the dev guys (and also to the crowd out there I think). The problems are many: communities without a "catch all" aggregator, rss publishers that doesn't filter by date (or put a limit to the number of entries) what to put in the aggregator, people that "follow the wave" and after publish the feed does not maintain it and last but not least the RSS standard compliancy (Atom's birth is due also to the fact that there are too many RSS formats and the specs are too... "open"). Bye
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