What is MetaRSS?
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 time, the newest comments will be visibile in your RSS reader. (Please don’t update your RSS more frequently than once an hour.)
How does it work?
When you see a thread you want to read in your RSS reader, simply use one of the bookmarklets to the left. If it is a new thread, it caches the thread immediately and displays the available RSS. If the thread exists, the existing RSS is displayed. If you use Bloglines, My Yahoo or Newsgator, you can use the specialized bookmarklets below to do the very same thing while adding it to your RSS reader at the same time.
A Word About Ownership
The content available via RSS feeds through this tool belongs to the respective posters. Additionally, I do not have any association, other than by membership, with Metafilter.