daily feeds

Gary GlassGary Glass Registered Users Posts: 744 Major grins
edited January 31, 2006 in SmugMug Support
Am I correct that feeds are only updated when new galleries are added? Here's what I wish I could do: I would like to have a gallery called, say, "The Daily Photo", and every time I add a photo to it, the feed updates. Can I do this?
Gary Glass
ShutterGlass.com
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2006
    Gary Glass wrote:
    Am I correct that feeds are only updated when new galleries are added? Here's what I wish I could do: I would like to have a gallery called, say, "The Daily Photo", and every time I add a photo to it, the feed updates. Can I do this?

    Sounds perfect! And yes, that's the way feeds work.
    http://www.smugmug.com/help/rss-atom-feeds
    Andy

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  • docwalkerdocwalker Registered Users Posts: 1,867 SmugMug Employee
    edited January 6, 2006
    Andy,

    This relates back to my thread about the email functionality. It appears that the pubdate is created on the day that the feed is created and does not change. Some of the feed readers look at this date to detect when new data has changed in the feed. I am not sure if this will cause any problems with a daily photo gallery. This is a cool idea either way.

    This is one of the reasons why many blog editors use a publish feature. This "publishing" updates the pubdate so that the readers can detect it. Blogger is one of them.
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  • Gary GlassGary Glass Registered Users Posts: 744 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2006
    Are you sure it works that way? I use Omea reader and I don't think it sees an update when I add a photo to a gallery. I think we may be talking about 2 different things. Here's what the feeds doc says (thanks for linking it):
    • User homepage. The feed includes the 10 most recently modified galleries.
    • User gallery. The feed includes the 10 most recently added photos.
    Which is cool. But what I'd like is for the user to subscribe to the homepage and see updates when a photo is added to any gallery. Rather than having to subscribe to each gallery individually. (I admit it I didn't put it this way in my original post; I was the using the daily photo idea to illustrate, but I didn't explain that very well.) See what I'm after? I want my fans to be able to subscribe to my site and get a notice whenever I add anything new. Just as when you subscribe to a blog, you typically get a notice whenever a new entry is made. That is, what I really want is a sitewide subscription for all photos. Doable?
    Gary Glass
    ShutterGlass.com
    OnlyBegotten.com
  • docwalkerdocwalker Registered Users Posts: 1,867 SmugMug Employee
    edited January 6, 2006
    Gary,

    It sounds like you and I are working on the same thing. I have added the feedblitz subscription service to my site. It works. But, it does not detect changes because the pubdate does not change.

    Doc
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  • Gary GlassGary Glass Registered Users Posts: 744 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2006
    docwalker wrote:
    It sounds like you and I are working on the same thing. I have added the feedblitz subscription service to my site. It works. But, it does not detect changes because the pubdate does not change.

    Feedblitz looks cool. I'd definitely like to implement it. So, Lords Of The Smug, can we have what we want?
    Gary Glass
    ShutterGlass.com
    OnlyBegotten.com
  • docwalkerdocwalker Registered Users Posts: 1,867 SmugMug Employee
    edited January 6, 2006
    Gary, SM may not have to do anything to get this working.

    Check this thread: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=224070#post224070

    I did some research on the RSS specifications and I think that Atom will be a btter feed. Atom is also compatible with feedblitz. It will take 24 hours to test. I will let you know the results.
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  • Gary GlassGary Glass Registered Users Posts: 744 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2006
    docwalker wrote:
    Gary, SM may not have to do anything to get this working.

    Check this thread: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=224070#post224070

    I did some research on the RSS specifications and I think that Atom will be a btter feed. Atom is also compatible with feedblitz. It will take 24 hours to test. I will let you know the results.

    Appreciate it! And I agree with a comment you made in the linked thread: this is something SM might want to consider offering in future!
    Gary Glass
    ShutterGlass.com
    OnlyBegotten.com
  • jcdilljcdill Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2006
    Gary Glass wrote:
    But what I'd like is for the user to subscribe to the homepage and see updates when a photo is added to any gallery.
    <ObAOL>

    Me Too!

    </ObAol>
    JC Dill - Equine Photographer, San Francisco & San Jose http://portfolio.jcdill.com
    "Chance favors the prepared mind." ~ Ansel Adams
    "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." ~ Terry Pratchett
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2006
    jcdill wrote:
    <ObAOL>

    Me Too!

    </ObAol>

    JC: <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/ne_nau.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >
    Andy

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  • jcdilljcdill Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2006
    What part are you confused about?

    I just created a new Smugmug site for a discussion group to use to share photos. The format is for each member of the group to create an album and then put their photos in their album. I'd like to enable our discussion group subscribers to subscribe to the gallery via RSS or ATOM and then be notified if there are new *photos* in *any* gallery. So when Jane Doe uploads new photos into her Jane Doe gallery, the RSS feed shows the actual new photos and not just that there are (some) new photos in Jane's gallery. Otherwise, if Jane uploaded new photos two days ago, and again today, and John Doe uploaded new photos today after Jane's new photos, users who saw Jane's new photos yesterday won't "know" that there are even more new photos today without actually going into her gallery to see them. Does that make sense?
    JC Dill - Equine Photographer, San Francisco & San Jose http://portfolio.jcdill.com
    "Chance favors the prepared mind." ~ Ansel Adams
    "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." ~ Terry Pratchett
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2006
    jcdill wrote:
    What part are you confused about?

    I don't know what <ObAOL> means <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >
    Andy

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  • jcdilljcdill Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    I don't know what <ObAOL> means <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

    It stands for Obligatory AOL reference. It indicates that replying "me too" (and nothing else) is similar to how an AOLer participated in a discussion forum in the era when AOLers were new to "the internet" (circa 1995). They frequently posted in ways similar to how they posted on AOL, which were not in keeping with the ways other internet users were posting at the time.
    JC Dill - Equine Photographer, San Francisco & San Jose http://portfolio.jcdill.com
    "Chance favors the prepared mind." ~ Ansel Adams
    "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." ~ Terry Pratchett
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2006
    jcdill wrote:
    It stands for Obligatory AOL reference. It indicates that replying "me too" (and nothing else) is similar to how an AOLer participated in a discussion forum in the era when AOLers were new to "the internet" (circa 1995). They frequently posted in ways similar to how they posted on AOL, which were not in keeping with the ways other internet users were posting at the time.

    AOL was good to me, once lol3.gif . Believe it or not, in 1994 I was andy@aol.com - shudda kept that email addy, huh? Thanks for the explanation!
    Andy

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  • docwalkerdocwalker Registered Users Posts: 1,867 SmugMug Employee
    edited January 31, 2006
    I have been playing with this off and on now for several weeks. The pubdate thing is still giving me problems. So I will wait to see if that gets changed in one of the future updates.
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  • Gary GlassGary Glass Registered Users Posts: 744 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2006
    docwalker wrote:
    I have been playing with this off and on now for several weeks. The pubdate thing is still giving me problems. So I will wait to see if that gets changed in one of the future updates.

    Please, God. Or SmugMug. Whoever can get to it first!
    Gary Glass
    ShutterGlass.com
    OnlyBegotten.com
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