Feed Manager not updating

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5/8/2009 10:52:52 AM
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Re: Feed Manager not updating

I cannot reproduce any problem with the feed cache not updating it updates as expected in my testing.

I could possibly add a config setting to allow you to disable the caching of the blog feed output.

But in general feed aggregators I have seen and used including google reader do not update in real time but on a periodic basis. First because its rude to keep requesting the feed of a site over and over in real time causing exaggerated load on the web site, its much better manners for a feed aggregator to just check periodically.  Its no different on sites like Weblogs.asp.net they aggregate but not in real time.

Showing videos and other rich media in feeds is problematic from a security point of view. No external feed should be trusted and NeatHtml will remove such things. I will investigate the possibility of a setting to disable NeatHtml in the feed manager for those who want to do this.

Currently the only way to make it real time and allow rich content like videos is for all 5 users to use the same blog and put that on the home page and show the authors name next to each post.

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Joe

5/8/2009 10:59:18 AM
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Ouch. I understand the ramifications with external feeds. I really only want this feature for these internal blogs. Looks like I need to develop a custom blog roll for internal blogs. I actually did what you suggested about creating one blog, and adding it to the home page. Problem was, I wanted to expose the RSS, and turning on those features took up too much real estate on the home page.

5/8/2009 11:01:50 AM
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I will look into an option for disabling NeatHtml in the feed manager, if it turns out to be easy I'll do it today. If not I'll ask Dean Brettle the author of NeatHtml to put a switch on the control to disable it.

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Joe 

5/8/2009 11:04:14 AM
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Actually what I think I'll end up doing short term is writing a sql server job to clear out the local feed cache every n minutes. That will get me there till I can work on a different solution.

5/8/2009 11:07:59 AM
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That will work but its strange I cannnot produce the problem, it updates as expected in my testing, though its not real time. 

5/8/2009 11:28:19 AM
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FYI, I just implemented a feature instance setting in the feed manager so it is possible to disable the neathtml filtering and let things like vidoes through.

This will be in the next release. 

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Joe

5/8/2009 12:00:29 PM
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Awesome Joe. As for the blog summary control, I think what I need is very similar to the feed control, but real time. Kin of like this:

  • Only pulls from blogs local to the site. Points to the actual blog, and not the rss.
  • Updates in real time, this is essential.
  • Displays a small excerpt. Even if the feed does not provide an excerpt.
  • Options to re-size images, flash, etc?? Or control this via css.

I wish I could get you on my site, however we don't have dns working yet. That way you could see how and why I need it this way.

 

BTW. You are awesome. Expect incoming beers.

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