Filtering RSS Feeds By Language?

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interscape Posted: Wed, Feb 21 2007 12:29 PM

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One of the things that drives me nuts about subscribing to the MainFeed.aspx of blogs.technet.com is the sheer number of non-English speaking posts. Some days I feel like I'm missing out on the good stuff because stuff I don't understand is clogging my feeds. Is there any way you guys could add language filtering to the CS2007 feeds? Maybe even just by adding a Language QueryString to the page?

Thanks!

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Ben Tiedt replied on Wed, Feb 21 2007 11:23 PM

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This has been an optional feature of CS since 2.1. 

Control Panel -> Administration -> Settings -> General Site Settings -> Enable Content Language Filters

When enabled,

• Each section (blog, forum, folder, gallery) can be assigned a language in the administration control panel
• Registered users can edit their profile to *exclude* content identified to be in a certain language.
• Anonymous users are only shown content in the default filter language as well as languages identified by the browser in the request header.

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interscape replied on Thu, Feb 22 2007 12:25 AM

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Ben,

That's cool, but how does it work if you're using a web-based aggregator like Live.com? That's why I'd like to be able to have a query string or something I can add to the URL to manually engage the filter. Since you guys have filtering built in already, it should be pretty straightforward, right?

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Ben Tiedt replied on Thu, Feb 22 2007 8:41 AM

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If you've subscribed to a secure RSS feed, your custom language filters would be applied.

However, if you're subscribed to a public RSS feed, you'd fall into the "Anonymous" category -- showing default and browser-identified languages only.

I've added this to our ideas list.