RSS feed and autoemail capabilities to Latest News?

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MikkoM
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RSS feed and autoemail capabilities to Latest News?

#1 Post by MikkoM »

Would it be difficult to attach RSS feed and automatic email notification options to the Main Page`s Latest News section? This could make it easier for people who are interested in FreeOrion to receive news about new releases and other major events, and if these features could be made to take their information automatically from the Latest News section there wouldn`t be any new lists to manually update.

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Re: RSS feed and autoemail capabilities to Latest News?

#2 Post by Geoff the Medio »

The latest news text is just a bit of text that gets updated manually. There's no automated "add an item" mechanism.

You can follow the freeorion twitter feed, though: https://twitter.com/freeorion

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Re: RSS feed and autoemail capabilities to Latest News?

#3 Post by MikkoM »

Is the Latest News box then somehow fundamentally different than this page...

http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/Spec ... entChanges

...which seems to have some sort of Atom feed attached to it?

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Re: RSS feed and autoemail capabilities to Latest News?

#4 Post by Geoff the Medio »

The latest news box is just a template page stuck into the main page. It - like all other actual pages in the wiki - doesn't have an atom feed as far as I know.

Recent changes is automatically generated by the wiki software, not an actual page in the wiki.

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