So as I've been digging into all the smaller aspects of CS2008, I've been puzzled by the "Shared Feeds" section of a public profile. I assume this is supposed to be fed by the "Recommended Reading RSS Feeds" you can setup while editing your profile, yet nothing at all ever shows up in here.
Anyone have any idea what's going on here?
Thanks!
Jason
Jason Kitch
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You're exactly right - Shared Feeds are the Recommended reading RSS Feeds.
The feeds are filled client side, and so may take a few seconds to show up, and if you have an ad-blocker or a script-blocker, then that may block the script
For example, have a look at my profile page (http://dev.communityserver.com/members/afscrome/default.aspx), you should see my Recommended reading RSS Feeds look like.
The feed in my Recommended Reading RSS feeds is http://askcrome.co.uk/feed/ so you may wish to test that URL and see if it's a problem with the RSS feed you've specified, or with your website.
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Nintendo Wiikly
I've just written a lengthy reply and I put in a few too many links and the spam blocker decided to moderate it.
You're right - the Shared Feeds should display feeds from the reccomended reading. In my profile, I have one feed listed - http://askcrome.co.uk/feed/. If you go to my profile page (use the link at the side of this post), you should see items in that feed showing up in the sidebar.
What do you actually see in the Shared Feeds section - do you just see white background, do you just see the URL of the recomended feed or do you see something else?
afscrome:What do you actually see in the Shared Feeds section - do you just see white background, do you just see the URL of the recomended feed or do you see something else?
Intersting.. based on what you mentioned, I decided to start hunting in the client source that came over, and I do in fact see a feed listed, but it doesn't actually show up. All I see is "Shared Feeds" and it's an empty white box below it. Is there some CSS problems going on in the Hawaii template?
afscrome:The feeds are filled client side, and so may take a few seconds to show up, and if you have an ad-blocker or a script-blocker, then that may block the script
Not that it's wrong, but why does this portion of the page function this way and the rest is generated server side?
My guess is that it's because the feeds will reside on another server, and were CS to try and download that feed server side, it would add significant delay to the download of the page. The rest of the stuff that CS shows is stored in the Sites' database which CS has quick and easy access to.
afscrome: My guess is that it's because the feeds will reside on another server, and were CS to try and download that feed server side, it would add significant delay to the download of the page.
Ah!!! In the older versions, all I ever saw was the exact links in my profile... as if I were to just share favorite RSS feeds. I did not realize that now it actually goes out and grabs the latest posts from each feed. This makes more sense now.
Know that, I've done some experiments, and it seems as if I can pull internal RSS feeds just fine. However if I select an external RSS feed that is beyond a proxy, that doesn't work. By browser however is configured with the correct proxy settings, so I'm able to browse the internet just fine.
How does this client side script deal with proxies? Is it trying some type of absolute direct connect regardless of proxy setting?
I'm having similar problems. I enter an RSS feed into the "Shared Feed" list, and when I view my profile that url shows up briefly, then disappears.
Alex, I went to your page (http://dev.communityserver.com/members/afscrome/default.aspx) and it shows fine. On my site I tried simply adding a link to your feed in my profile, and nothing came up. Then I tried it on my profile here, and that worked fine. So I know that the url I'm using is right, and that there isn't a browser compatibility issue.
Is there some site setting I'm possibly missing?
Any ideas? Does the client side ajax support proxies? If not, could that be considered for a future release?
What do you mean by "client side ajax support proxies". Why would this be important?
Well, I'm trying to understand what is up with this feature overall, and not sure exactly what is causing the issues I see. Based on what others have replied, I think I'm not the only one either.
Sometimes these feeds just don't work. You'll see the feed names briefly on a profile, and then they systematically disappear one by one as if something is removing them. My guess is that the script is trying to access the feed but fails, so it removes it from the list on the client browser?
If I run CS inside a firewall, it usually has no problem resolving links to feeds that are also behind the firewall, yet would fail on the external ones. Yet if I access CS from outside the firewall (allowing a route for port 80), then the external links resolve fine but the internal sites fail. In this second case, I would expect the failures because everything else is hidden. However, in the first cast (CS behind a firewall, accessing it behind one) I cannot explain why there are failures on the external sites. Could it be the browser is having trouble going through the proxy in some cases?
I say some cases, because other sites such as this particular one, seems to work fine. Alex if I look at your profile from behind a firewall then my browser has no problems resolving your links.
I know my links I've tried are valid, and I've tried this with IE 6, IE 7, Firefox 3, and Safari 3 - so this isn't isolated to one particular browser or OS.
I tried to look at the files downloaded by the WebResource reference in the pages, which is a bunch of script with it's whitespace compressed together, but I do see Telligent referenced all thorugh them. I'm guessing one of these is doing the magic to resolve things?
I'd love to be able to understand what is going on here so I could understand it and find a solution for what I and many people I work with have seen. However right now I'm at a loss.
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