Subscribing to the individual forums on Google Reader
I'm getting a bit overwhelmed with the number of threads on these forums every day. I am subscribed to the overall forum RSS feed through Google Reader.
I thought I could cut out threads on things such as Proclaim, which I am not using, by subscribing to the RSS feeds for the separate forums that I am likely to be interested in.
I click on the RSS link at the bottom of the forum page and get the correct feed. However, when I subscribe to that URL in Google Reader I get the posts from a different forum, for example the PC Beta URL gives me the Proclaim feed.
Am I being stupid? Has anyone else had this problem and/or overcome it?
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I also use Google Reader, and it appears to be all the forums or none of them...the proclaim stuff is a pain to me--I often can't tell from the RSS that the topic is proclaim vs Logos, so I get suckered into opening the item & wasting my time.
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That's very odd, I just subscribed to the Beta forum in Google Reader as a test and it worked fine.
The Beta forum ID is 78 whereas Proclaim is 94 so I don't know how you managed to subscribe to one and get the other I'm afraid.
Perhaps you could try unsubscribing from the overall feed first before adding individual feeds?
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I've managed to get subscribed to them all, but the behaviour is still strange. The first forum I subscribe to is fine, but for the subsequent ones I get a fairly random choice of forum.
When I try reentering the same URL, it tells me that I am already subscribed. I got around this by changing
http://community.logos.com/forums/rss.aspx?ForumID=68&Mode=0
to
http://community.logos.com/forums/rss.aspx?ForumID=68&Mode=0&Again=1 (then 2, then 3)
After a couple of tries for each forum it seems to find the correct feed.
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Although I had a list of correctly named feeds, this morning each one seemed to download whichever feed it liked, regardless of the name.
Back to the main forum feed (and wading through hundreds of posts about Proclaim).
Logos can you help?
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I've had this problem in the past when I tried to subscribe to a feed in google reader, even though it would be a very specific feed with the correct id it would end up sending me messages from other forums, so stopped trying to use it with google reader. It would be nice it it worked properly.
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Bump!
Do any of the tech's have suggestions on how to solve or work around this problem?
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I suspect that the problem is that the ASP page that delivers the individual forums doesn't always refresh its content each time it is accessed. If an RSS reader makes several requests for different forums at the same time, they all get the same response. This may possibly be exacerbated if your time zone is different from the server's.
Hint to Logos team: Inserting <% Response.Expires = -1442 %> at the start of the page should make it refresh on each request.
I wrote my own page, which accesses the feed for all of the forums and then filters the results according to the forum numbers.
The URLs are as follows.
All of the forums:
http://stabl.es/logosforums.aspOne forum:
http://stabl.es/logosforums.asp?forum=106When viewed in your browser, each forum has an address like this: http://community.logos.com/forums/77.aspx. The number at the end is the one you need to enter in the URL for my feed. The following feeds are currently available:
28 = Suggestions
31 = Logos 3/Libronix
46 = Logos for Mac 1
65 = Espanol
66 = Files
68 = RefTagger
74 = iPhone/iPad
75 = Logos 4 Mac
76 = Logos 4 Windows
77 = General
78 = PC Beta
79 = Logos Mobile Web
80 = Bible.Logos.com
81 = Biblia.com API
82 = Almanac.Logos.com
83 = Learn to Use ...
87 = Biblia.com
90 = Mac Beta
92 = Logos.com website
94 = Proclaim - Church Presentation Software
95 = Logos Blog
96 = Android
97 = Vyrso
101 = Faithlife.com - Beta
102 = Faithlife Study Bible Private Beta
106 = Desktop BetaMake one subscription in your feed reader for each forum that you are interested in.
There are few other seach fields:
min = show threads with this number of replies or more
max = show threads with this number of replies or fewer
author = show only threads started by this author
content = show threads containing a particular stringFor example:
http://stabl.es/logosforums.asp?forum=77&min=20&content=search
should give you any threads in the general forum with 20 or more replies and containing the word "search".I haven't used or tested all of the combinations, so you can't guarantee that they will be flawless. The one I do find useful is "min=20", which gives me for a second time any thread that has made it to a second page of replies and might be worth another look.
I wrote this system for my own use, but I am happy for others to use it if they wish. It is provided as is, without any guarantee of service. However, I would be interested to hear whether it works for you or not (and what subscription manager and feed reader you are using).
If you do use the system, please post here, so that I have some idea of how much it is being used. Subscribing to emails from the this page would also be sensible, as I may have to change the URL at some point in the coming year.
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Thanks, Jonathan! This looks great.
I have subscribed to the Android and Windows Beta forums, with both the basic and minimum feeds. I'll let you know if I notice anything strange.
Thanks for sharing!
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PC Beta and Mac Beta were moved to Desktop Beta a few months ago, so you would be better subscribing to that for new posts.
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Sorry, I mis-typed. It is Desktop Bet that I am following
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As I mentioned above, I've had to move the location of these feeds. The new location is:
http://jpitts.info/logos/forums.asp
The search syntax remains the same, for example http://jpitts.info/logos/forums.asp?forum=109 for the Logos 5 forum.
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