RSS Feeds & Recent Photos

RogersDARogersDA Registered Users Posts: 3,502 Major grins
edited October 13, 2008 in SmugMug Support
Is there a way to exclude hidden galleries (those without passwords) from the RSS feeds for Recent Photos?
David
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 11, 2008
    They won't show to visitors. Only you, logged in :)
    Andy

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  • hyachtshyachts Registered Users Posts: 140 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2008
    Just to be completely clear, you're talking about hidden as in unlisted? Not hidden by some CSS/JS, etc? If it's listed (public) but hidden by customization it'll still come up in the feeds, AFAIK.
  • darryldarryl Registered Users Posts: 997 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2008
    Ah, I knew these "hidden by customization" hacks would come back to bite somebody. :-P
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2008
    darryl wrote:
    Ah, I knew these "hidden by customization" hacks would come back to bite somebody. :-P
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  • darryldarryl Registered Users Posts: 997 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2008
    Ah, sorry, let me expound (uhoh)...

    A huuuuuuge number of customizations that I've seen on DGrin involve using JavaScript or CSS hacks that simply hide elements (photos, galleries, etc.). If source is viewed, those elements are right there for the taking/viewing.

    I understand that for probably 75% of people viewing galleries on SmugMug, that doesn't matter, as they aren't looking for hidden content, nor do they know what HTML looks like.

    But that's not even my biggest gripe about this. My biggest complaint is that it always seemed a waste of bandwidth to send content that then gets hidden via JavaScript. I guess I can't forget my old 56Kbps (or 28Kbps or 14.4Kbps or good lord 2400Kbps) modem days when things like this mattered.

    I don't know -- is this kind of thing standard practice with Web 2.0 apps? The philosophy of "hey, everybody's got huge pipes now, so let's just send a lot of extra crap to the browser and then hide it until they need it?"
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