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I am having a lot of trouble with RSS. I am planning to bring over 2-300 bookmarks into an organized fashion from blinklist, but I have to figure these things out. so i am going to keep my groups private till i get it all right. (However, I wanted to clarify that the following were questions/concerns when the 'group' had a public status.) I really really want to leave blinklist - and these are the questions that can help me do that.
1. Public/Private/Anyone/Invite - If you pick the option 'Public' AND the option "Invitation Only", when you save, the group is saved as "Private-only members can view"
2. GROUPS | > RSS
If I make a comment on a bookmark. Then I LATER decide to 'share that bookmark', the comment does not appear in the groups. I have to manually go to the group bookmarks section and add the comments over again. This of course means that when you go to the page, there are double comments. Is this meant to be the case?
3. GROUPS | > RSS & Comments
Are the comments from the group going to be available in the RSS Feed? Are they supposed to be as of right now? (they are not). They are available in Blinklist's "Spaces" (their feed rocks, even if the space is confusing)
4. MYBOOKMARKS (non groups) | > RSS > Tags in RSS Reader Merging to Inaccurate Links
Ok, this is complicated, so get comfy. Say I subscribe to a feed of a tag in my own personal bookmarks. In the feed reader, I see the TITLE, the DATE posted, and the TAGS. The tags are hyperlinks. Here's where it gets weird. Say the tag is "nonprofit". I suppose it html hyperlink is something like "tag/nonprofit". So the hyperlink in the RSS feeder combines the TITLE and the link of the tag. So if the bookmark is Idealist which has a web address of www.idealist.org - the tag "nonprofit" will link to "http://www.idealist.org/tag/nonprofit" which of course, is not a location at all. The tag "nonprofit" under a bookmark for Consultant commons (www.consultantcommons.org) will translate in an RSS reader in such a way that the tag links to "http://www.consultantcommons.org/tag/nonprofit" which also is not a valid link. What do I do?
5. MYBOOKMARKS (non groups) | > RSS > Comments in RSS Reader
This is pretty important. Are there any plans for the comments of the user to show up in the users feed?
Thanks so much for your patience with me on these matters. I hope I was clear enough! I am not so good at writing techie things!
Good questions here. Please see comment below.
> 1. Public/Private/Anyone/Invite - If you pick the option 'Public' AND the option "Invitation Only", when you save, the group is saved as "Private-only members can view"
No. some admin for public groups prefer to moderate its membership. So we offer an option for it to be public (ie. viewable by anyone), but members are by invite only and only members can contribute bookmarks, forum posts to it. If it's not working as it's supposed to, then there is a bug.
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> 2. GROUPS | > RSS
> If I make a comment on a bookmark. Then I LATER decide to 'share that bookmark', the comment does not appear in the groups. -->> This shouldn't be the case. Please double check.
I have to manually go to the group bookmarks section and add the comments over again. This of course means that when you go to the page, there are double comments. Is this meant to be the case?
----> "My Bookmarks" and "Groups" use different databases. So, once you share a bookmark to a group, it's essentially copied to that group. Any of your existing comments (before sharing) should be visible to the group members (if not, please advise the details). However, once shared, any comments that you wish to mark / share to the group should be added when you're in the group env't, not in "My bookmark". Hope this is clear.
> 3. GROUPS | > RSS & Comments
> Are the comments from the group going to be available in the RSS Feed? Are they supposed to be as of right now? (they are not). They are available in Blinklist's "Spaces" (their feed rocks, even if the space is confusing)
RSS is now available for public group's bookmarks (including page comments) and forum posts.
So for example, here is the RSS feed for this public group forum: http://groups.diigo.com/rss/Diigo_HQ/forum
Blinklist's feeds - can you please direct us to it and show us an example? Thanks
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> 4. MYBOOKMARKS (non groups) | > RSS > Tags in RSS Reader Merging to Inaccurate Links
> Ok, this is complicated, so get comfy. Say I subscribe to a feed of a tag in my own personal bookmarks. In the feed reader, I see the TITLE, the DATE posted, and the TAGS. The tags are hyperlinks. Here's where it gets weird. Say the tag is "nonprofit". I suppose it html hyperlink is something like "tag/nonprofit". So the hyperlink in the RSS feeder combines the TITLE and the link of the tag. So if the bookmark is Idealist which has a web address of www.idealist.org - the tag "nonprofit" will link to "http://www.idealist.org/tag/nonprofit" which of course, is not a location at all. The tag "nonprofit" under a bookmark for Consultant commons (www.consultantcommons.org) will translate in an RSS reader in such a way that the tag links to "http://www.consultantcommons.org/tag/nonprofit" which also is not a valid link. What do I do?
Fixed - please check.
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> 5. MYBOOKMARKS (non groups) | > RSS > Comments in RSS Reader
> This is pretty important. Are there any plans for the comments of the user to show up in the users feed?
Updated.
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> Thanks so much for your patience with me on these matters. I hope I was clear enough! I am not so good at writing techie things!
Hope this helps.
Maggie Tsai
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