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marshallk started following the question "PostRank malfunctioning?" in AideRSS.

A comment on the idea "Display the author and the blogname" in AideRSS:

db0, we should have most of those handled in the future. – Ilya Grigorik, on August 11, 2008 17:28

A comment on the idea "Display the author and the blogname" in AideRSS:

Yeah, that came to light afterward with more discussion. :) Definitely getting far more accustomed to people reporting on the GR side of things. – Melanie Baker, on August 11, 2008 17:05

A comment on the idea "Display the author and the blogname" in AideRSS:

Yeah, that came to light afterward with more discussion. :) Definitely getting far more accustomed to people reporting on the GR side of things. – Melanie Baker, on August 11, 2008 17:05

db0 replied on August 11, 2008 16:30 to the idea "Display the author and the blogname" in AideRSS:

Melanie, the fields are not there in the first place. The extension has nothing to do with it.

Ilya, I would prefer the atom format as it provides much more information in a feed but I can't really force you on that.

Generally I would like to have at least the following

• Author of the post


• Original Site Name


• Source/Original Feed url


• Optionally that numbers of the various points (comments, diggs etc) that the item has gathered

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Ilya Grigorik replied on August 11, 2008 16:09 to the idea "Display the author and the blogname" in AideRSS:

db0, marshallk: our system currently drops the author field when the feed is indexed, but this is definitely something that we will address in one of our upcoming releases. Specifically, we'll abide by the RSS 2.0 spec and index all of the fields that are supported. If you guys have any other ideas, let us know!

Melanie Baker replied on August 11, 2008 15:58 to the question "The Feeds That Lost Their Cool" in AideRSS:

Well, we can't re-cool-ify sites, and we don't actually calculate on a time frame basis. We calculate based on X number of the most recent posts.

That said, if a site publishes new content very infrequently, sure, the time frame involved would, by necessity, be longer than for many sites. However, at the same time, the audience engagement for a site that publishes maybe once a month is most likely to be fairly low anyway.

Given the way we calculate, if a site's rankings have been a lot lower for some time, it's likely they've simply have consistently failed to produce content that's engaging for their audience. (Over a short period of time, it could be indicative of a sudden loss of readership, but that would get adjusted for fairly quickly.

marshallk replied on August 11, 2008 15:48 to the idea "Display the author and the blogname" in AideRSS:

Well, there are a lot of fields in a feed that could be published. It would be nice to have item summaries, author info, original source, you name it.

Melanie Baker replied on August 11, 2008 15:46 to the idea "Display the author and the blogname" in AideRSS:

I'm not sure why the site title/author are disappearing when the extension's active. I've submitted it to the devs for investigation. I agree that it should be there (i.e. I'm inclined to view it as a bug.

@marshallk -- What "all kinds of info" are you looking to have published? Just what's mentioned above, or other stuff?

marshallk asked a question in AideRSS on August 11, 2008 15:46:

The Feeds That Lost Their Cool

I wish that I could set a timeframe on hotness. I find a lot of feeds where there are never any new "best" posts because none of them get feedback that can rival what a post a year ago got.

marshallk replied on August 11, 2008 15:44 to the idea "Display the author and the blogname" in AideRSS:

It would be great to have all kinds of info published in the feeds, for sure!

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marshallk started following the question "a list of sites supporting OAuth?" in OAuth.

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marshallk replied on March 19, 2008 00:08 to the question "a list of sites supporting OAuth?" in OAuth:

Can we get this thread updated? Surely OpenSocial support for oAuth is notable right? Oren at Mashery says oAuth is the #1 request he's hearing from his customers too, so presumably there's a list waiting to be made.