I figure I should explain the main reason why I chose not include an RSS feed and why I am not really a fan of this...
The main motivation behind making the page is that finding the latest posts by OpenPandora Team on the forums is slow and awkward, so I wrote a this script to put all the results in one page along with the dates. So basically, it was the search page replacement.
After I put it up online, a lot of people asked for an RSS feed. I refused. The main difference between visiting a page and getting updates through RSS is that one is an active approach - actually going to the page to find some information, and the other one is passive - the RSS reader reports every single quip an OpenPandora Team member posted, less than 30 minutes after it was posted. So what I did instead is, I found all the RSS feeds and made my script fetch them, so that everything is in one place.
The reason is I think this kind of... erm... stalking is just a bit too far. If the OPT wants to share information with the world, they post it to tweeter or the official blog. If people want the kind of information that my script aggregates, they should at least actively look for it: of all the people stumbled onto my page, less than 1/10 actually visit it each day.
Gruso pretty much nails the implications on the head:
Gruso said:
I've linked it on Pandorapress once (within a post), and I considered putting a permalink up but something doesn't feel right about it. I think OPT must feel stalked enough, with every post already being aggregated and launched upon by the forum masses. Add another couple of thousand people to the feed, people who don't generally hang around the forums for the full context, and we may end up seeing even less posts from OPT. I don't think I'd like it if all my posts were listed that way.
So I'd really prefer it if my scraper were not scraped.
Alec
I've linked it on Pandorapress once (within a post), and I considered putting a permalink up but something doesn't feel right about it. I think OPT must feel stalked enough, with every post already being aggregated and launched upon by the forum masses. Add another couple of thousand people to the feed, people who don't generally hang around the forums for the full context, and we may end up seeing even less posts from OPT. I don't think I'd like it if all my posts were listed that way.
