I want my own vanilla forum

Pete

but I remember trying, and it made no sense.
I've got an idea, an experiment. I believe vanilla can do rss intergration.
If every member could insert their blog, last.fm, flickr, del.icio.us rss feeds, then the last, say, 5 posts would appear in their account page. The photo's they take, the music they listen, the sites they bookmark, collected together.
Then, on the front page, in the sidebar, the last 10 posts from all members in each thing.
Kind of a hive mind thing. A combined social 2.0 thing
It would be like myspace, but already cooler.

And it would be elite ie. My friends.

Can anyone help me?

Pete

I think I would need these
<a href="http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=92">feedreader 0.3</a>
I would a number of these. One of every possilbe rss feed
<a href="http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=43">Flickrizer Beta 0.1</a>
<a href="http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=124">LatestBlog 1.0 Beta</a>

I think these would all need tweaking, which I don't know how.

David

OK Pete, well i've stuck that add on in. give me your feed and we'll play with it a bit. see what happens. if you need help setting vanilla up just shout. I'm always on <david@dkltd.net>

Pete

These are all my data feeds.

http://dazegoonboy.livejournal.com/data/rss
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=29028297@N00&format=rss_200
http://del.icio.us/rss/dazegoonboy
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/dazegoonboy/recenttracks.rss

When I tried to set up my own forum on dazegoonboy.co.uk, I don't think I simply knew what I was doing.
But that is a projct for next week, i think.

David

ok, i've put them on rotation, you can only source one feed at a time with this plug in, it doesn't aggregate across them so each refresh will randomly pick one of the feeds and show the top 5 from it. Also had to drop the audioscrobbler feed as it was binning out the plugin and returning an error.

David

oooooo look at me. just added a feed for the forum in the panel too. It's cool it spits out whatever page its on. so you can pick your feed by lining up the page you want and clicking it. nice and simple.

Pete

Ah, audioscrobber needs this one
http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=97

Now, is is possible to have all my feeds on my account page? i think so.

I read this on the "lastestblog" add on
"This extension reads by default the feed specified in the config file"
Does that mean that the config file could have every member? Or is that for one feed only?
If for one feed, that means a parser would needed to put them together, right?

And this is where it gets tricky. The parser should only parse single sorts of feed. So four parsers would be needed, one for each thing.....

Christ, this is not simple.

David

No its not. This moves into the territory of where I did that Premiership Grid that scraped from the BBC, Blogs and others. And despite the standards of Atom And RSS, the quality can't be guaranteed and often breaks the iteration through the feeds. It's quite a nightmare. It becomes more viable if coding something straight up, rather than trying to hook into Vanilla. For instance, on Independent Escapes I actually gave up trying to integrate Vanilla and ended up writing my own forum board.

David

OK, so i've taken that one off the panel now. Go to your account, personal information and whack one of your feeds in the Blog Feed line. works quite well. Only one piece of the jigsaw obviously...

Pete

oh but it looks so ace
It doesn't have to work 100%, especially with formatting.
it just has to work *enough*, work so there's a link, a title and some words.

the real shame is that you can onyl technically put one feed per person.
or can you put the flickr one, the rss one we already have, and this one?
http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=110

Pete

<quote>For instance, on Independent Escapes I actually gave up trying to integrate Vanilla and ended up writing my own forum board.</quote> But I can't do that, and can't really ask you to do that. I can't afford you.

andy

what are you both talking about? can you point a link to all this work?

David

What I meant was, its tricky to do, but easier to write say a webpage that does what you're looking for, but to get it to also sit in vanilla is painful. Andy, go to your account, and add a blog feed, it'll show up on your account.