Essentiall, MetaRSS is comprised of the following components:
A cron job
An indexer
Metafilter content
An HTML cache
The user interface
The process is initiated by a user request for an RSS feed. This is currently done with a Greasemonkey script or a bookmarklet. The request simply feeds the user interface a URL. The user interface caches the […]
MetaRSS was approved, though DNS still has not updated.
More to come.
It’s no secret: MetaRSS was hacked together with the best of intentions in the least amount of time possible. As such, MetaRSS went live in alpha and never saw much further development. Since that time, the name has been taken by another company, several bugs have been discovered (more on that later), reported, […]
As much fun as playing with Joomla was, I just don’t have the time or patience to stick with it.
Not to mention, the end result of said futzing was, well, pretty unusable. Therefore, MetaRSS has moved to this mostly empty blog. None of the script locations have changed, but the user interface doesn’t […]
Metafilter offers RSS feeds for the front pages of MeFi and AskMe. While I am thankful for the feeds, they do not help me keep up with activity after I’ve seen a thread. Every hour MetaRSS updates threads that it knows about, for up to thirty days. When your RSS reader hits MetaRSS the next […]