Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:02:51 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreshPorts personal newsfeeds Message-ID: <4346F08B.25482.6366E8B1@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20051008002201.GA6709@flame.pc> References: <4346D7DB.11418.63067AF6@localhost>
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On 8 Oct 2005 at 3:22, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-10-07 20:17, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote: > > I'm working on adding the ability to have personal news feeds on > > FreshPorts. In short, you'll be able to customize a news feed by > > selecting the ports you want included, nothing else. If you already > > use FreshPorts, you know what a watch list is [if you don't, you > > should be using it....]. Each watch list will have its own newsfeed. > > > > The URL will be something like this: > > > > http://www.freshports.org/rss/watch- > > list.php?token=07c5e534565839f10b536f3ed638be8412602130bb82f95fbb5a682b5655aa38 > > Very cool Dan :) I just finished some beta coding. If anyone wants to have a sneak peak at personalized news feeds for FreshPorts, go to http://beta.freshports.org/ and get signed in. Then look for the "Personal newsfeeds" link. One newsfeed for each watch list you set up. > > The token is random, more or less, and unique to your newsfeed. It's > > non-trivial to guess, but if you did guess one, big deal, you have a > > newsfeed. *yawn*. > > Which may be _extremely_ useful as a means of sharing 'interesting' > feeds with one's friends. Excellent! There's an idea.... selling off news feeds.... -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/
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