RSS feeds for "What's New"

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RSS feeds for "What's New"

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Created/Edited: Jun 8, 2007 / Jun 8, 2007

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Introduction

RSS feeds have become a popular and practical way to syndicate web content. They are perfectly suited to keep up to date with frequently updated content on the web like blog entries or news articles. That's why most major web sites use RSS feeds nowadays. Unfortunately, SummitPost doesn't offer RSS feeds. Since it would be great to have RSS feeds for the "What's new" section, I have made available such feeds (currently updated once per hour).

There are two ways that you can access and subscribe to these feeds.

One single feed

This is a combined feed for all new objects (except for new photos due to the large number of photos appearing each day):

New Stuff - SummitPost

Separate feeds

Thinking about RSS feeds while traversing Lyskamm in the Wallis

Alternatively, there are separate feeds available for specific types of objects (new articles, new trip reports, etc)

New Logistical Centers

New FAQs

New Lists

New Trailheads

More information

These feeds can be accessed in any RSS reader. There is a large selection for both online and offline RSS readers available. Personally, I'm using Google Reader which I'm very happy with. For more information check out this Wikipedia article or this list of RSS readers.

Please use the comments below for comments or suggestions.

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Bob Sihler

Question

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This is a question, not a criticism. Of what benefit is this as opposed to going to the SP What's New page? Why not just go to SP as I do way too much already? Perhaps an explanation of this would help me and some others understand the Why of this article.

Posted Jun 8, 2007 4:18 pm


	darndt	Good question
	Hasn't voted	Websites publish lists of updates (called "feeds") that indicate when new content has been posted. You can subscribe to these feeds in a feed reader. Then, instead of visiting all the websites that you want to check for new content (like SP), you only check your feed reader where all the new content of all the websites that you are tracking is listed (usually with links to the new content). You should try it, it's an incredible time saver. This article explains how to subscribe to feeds for new SP content.
		Posted Jun 9, 2007 7:56 pm


	Bob Sihler	Re: Good question
	Hasn't voted	I understand now. Thank you.
		Posted Jun 10, 2007 6:38 am

SJD

NIcely Done

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I stuffed the TR feed here:
http://www.theradioroom.org/mountains.htm

Thanks for providing the RSS.

Posted Jun 9, 2007 10:26 pm

Gangolf Haub

Thanks Daniel!

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Thanks for putting this up. I saves a lot of time for someone who has to administer the site. However, there's something wrong with the "areas & ranges" link:
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Error message:

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.

Posted Jun 11, 2007 2:08 am


	darndt	Re: Thanks Daniel!
	Hasn't voted	Thanks for catching the error, Gangolf! I've fixed it and it should work again.
		Posted Jun 11, 2007 3:23 pm

mvs

nice work!

Voted 10/10

Nice work Daniel! Now I never have to leave my comfy Google Reader :).

Posted Jun 13, 2007 1:07 pm

Myzantrope

Bravo!

Voted 10/10

Excellent initiative

Posted Jun 19, 2007 7:14 am

gyurma	starting page
Hasn't voted	hey! thanks for the goodie! :-) would be great to have an icon or sg on the starting page of SP... hm?
	Posted Jul 24, 2008 7:57 am

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