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New bookmarks do not show up at the top of my RSS feed
First, I love Foxmarks -- it is simply epic.
Second, I do have a problem when sharing out bookmarks via RSS. I have a nested folder structure set up to syndicate, but when I add new bookmarks to my folder structure, they do not appear at the top of my RSS feed as a new submission. This seems counter to what RSS is supposed to achieve, because I would expect that no matter where I added an entry in my folder structure, it would *always* show up at the top of the RSS feed as a new item. Instead, the RSS feed retains the same order of bookmarks as the folder structure, which means if I add a new bookmark in the top-level root folder, it always shows up at the bottom of the RSS feed.
Here is my shared feed: http://share.xmarks.com/folder/bookma...
In this example, I added "a merry life and a short one" a long time ago, and "in EvE - " just yesterday, but "a merry life and a short one" *always* shows at the top in my RSS reader, so it looks like I never get any new bookmarks.
Am I missing something?
Second, I do have a problem when sharing out bookmarks via RSS. I have a nested folder structure set up to syndicate, but when I add new bookmarks to my folder structure, they do not appear at the top of my RSS feed as a new submission. This seems counter to what RSS is supposed to achieve, because I would expect that no matter where I added an entry in my folder structure, it would *always* show up at the top of the RSS feed as a new item. Instead, the RSS feed retains the same order of bookmarks as the folder structure, which means if I add a new bookmark in the top-level root folder, it always shows up at the bottom of the RSS feed.
Here is my shared feed: http://share.xmarks.com/folder/bookma...
In this example, I added "a merry life and a short one" a long time ago, and "in EvE - " just yesterday, but "a merry life and a short one" *always* shows at the top in my RSS reader, so it looks like I never get any new bookmarks.
Am I missing something?
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Inappropriate?Hi Nicholas,
No, you're not missing anything. The short answer is this: RSS is an OK way for sharing bookmarks, but it's not perfect because we're trying to represent a tree structure with order in a format that was designed for lists of events sorted by date. Some RSS readers do provide the feature you're describing, by automatically showing new items at the top of list list; others do not.
We're certainly open to expanding our sharing features. Perhaps the most useful would be to make the bookmark data available via a simple API that others could use to display as best suits them. Please let us know what you think! -
Inappropriate?Hi, thanks for the response! I mainly share my bookmarks via RSS so others have the benefit of tracking new things that I find on a regular basis. If people want to see how I categorize bookmarks, I just send them the URL for the web page vs. the URL for the RSS feed. But I do think that the RSS feed should show newest items at the top, vs. as a folder structure, because this is the typical behavior of RSS. Sharing bookmarks via a simple API would be great if I were providing my feed to be consumed by other programs, but typically I share RSS with non-technical friends who would have no idea what an API is, but can add my bookmarks to their Google Reader account with ease.
I’m undecided
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I agree with Nicholas. A "feed" as is commonly understood these days on the Net is a flat list of entries ordered by "creation" date, descending. The default behavior of Xmarks feeds could easily follow this convention so long as creation/modification time metadata for each bookmark is available.
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