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I Need Your Help!

by Ryan Parman • August 31, 2004 • Code, Projects, Syndication, Technology • 8 comments

I’ve been on a roll with SimplePie development lately (if you couldn’t already tell). Version 0.93 will probably be released in the next day or so, and at that point should be feature-complete. The remaining Pre-1.0 releases (0.94, 0.95, 0.96, etc.) will be dedicated to compatibility fixes. There are a lot of poorly coded feeds out there, and I need to know about them to that I can patch them up as best as possible.

What I need from you are your reading lists. Whatever sites you read or follow via RSS or Atom, I want to know about them. If you’ve got Feed Demon, SharpReader, RSS Bandit, NetNewsWire, Shrook, PulpFiction, or another feed reader, do me a favor and export your feed listings in OPML format (which would be the easiest thing for you) and upload them to your website somewhere. Then, leave a comment that contains the URL to that OPML file. I’ll then go through each and every site and find each and every RSS or Atom feed and test them one-by-one to make sure that SimplePie is as solid and production-ready as possible.

The higher the quantity of feeds I’m able to test, the better SimplePie will be. I know that most of the (standards-compliant) blogging world is pretty solid, but I’ve noticed that many development and programming-related sites have horrendous feeds. I’m also going through the Feed Demon forums and testing as many of those feeds as I can.

Your help would be tremendously appreciated!

Ryan Parman

Ryan Parman is an entrepreneur, open source evangelist and passionate usability advocate currently living in Seattle. He is the founder and visionary behind SimplePie and CloudFusion, co-founder of WarpShare, member of the RSS Advisory Board, and creator of the AWS SDK for PHP. Ryan's aptly-named blog, Flailing Wildly, is where he writes about ideas longer than 140 characters.

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Jeremy Flint

August 31, 2004

http://www.jeremyflint.com/jeremyflint.opml

 

Max

August 31, 2004

There is a fair number of feeds listed at http://www.bloglines.com/dir

It isn’t real obvious at first, but there are many pages of feeds for each letter of the alphabet, the navigation just doesn’t stand out very well….

 

Ryan Parman

August 31, 2004

Thank you Jeremy and Max. Max, I didn’t know that. I’ll have to check it out. Has anyone else got a feed list I can test from?

BTW, has anyone started using SimplePie for anything yet?

 

Darice de Cuba

September 1, 2004

my feeds

 

David House

September 1, 2004

http://www.bloglines.com/public/davidhouse

 

daemona trix

September 1, 2004

Here’s my Bloglines feeds. They export to opml 1.0. Bloglines let’s me create a folder heirarchy and that got exported as well with the [outline title=] tag.

Hope it works.

Exported Feeds

 

waylman

September 1, 2004

Hmmm, my comment must have been tagged as spam because all I had was a link and no other content. I’ll try again.
Find mine here.

Btw, I haven’t used SimplePie yet, but I’ve been meaning to check it out. It’s just that my sight needs some work on some very basic stuff still and any spare time I have has been put into that.

 

Milan Kryl

September 1, 2004

I am not using SimplePie, but I can provide my opml files for testing ,-)

daily opml file and
to analyze opml file.

 

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