MyFanFare RSS feed? July 23, 2015 3:26 PM Subscribe
I do a lot of my MeFi browsing through an RSS reader (NewsBlur if anybody cares). One page I cannot find an RSS feed for is MyFanFare, which is a great thing that could be made better IMO if it came in the shape of an RSS feed. Is there a pony frolicking in the fields nearby MeFi HQ that could fulfill this need? Are there others out there who also feel this pony would make a good addition to the MeFi stables?
That was a quick pony reward.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 3:46 PM on July 23, 2015
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 3:46 PM on July 23, 2015
Yay! pb is the Pony Whisperer!
posted by scalefree at 3:49 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by scalefree at 3:49 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
My FanFare feeds are go. You should see a link to the feed at the top of the My FanFare page under the headline.
posted by pb (staff) at 4:44 PM on July 23, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by pb (staff) at 4:44 PM on July 23, 2015 [6 favorites]
NewsBlur if anybody cares
In the wake of the preposterously swift granting of this pony, I would just like to mention that NewsBlur is an excellent RSS reader, and well worth the $25 bucks a year I spend on it.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 4:49 PM on July 23, 2015 [6 favorites]
In the wake of the preposterously swift granting of this pony, I would just like to mention that NewsBlur is an excellent RSS reader, and well worth the $25 bucks a year I spend on it.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 4:49 PM on July 23, 2015 [6 favorites]
Seems to be a glitch. I have a bunch of shows listed in MyFanFare prefs but when I click on the RSS link I get this:
Feed Not Found
Sorry, there are no My FanFare preferences set for the feed you requested.
Hope me PB1 Kenobi, you're my only hope!
posted by scalefree at 5:40 PM on July 23, 2015
Feed Not Found
Sorry, there are no My FanFare preferences set for the feed you requested.
Hope me PB1 Kenobi, you're my only hope!
posted by scalefree at 5:40 PM on July 23, 2015
I think I found the problem, scalefree. Give it another try.
posted by pb (staff) at 6:00 PM on July 23, 2015
posted by pb (staff) at 6:00 PM on July 23, 2015
Heh: read the MeTa in The Old Reader (which for non-huge numbers of feeds is the cheapskate alternative to NewsBlur/Feedly etc), thought to myself "oh yes that does sound useful", come here to find pb has already implemented and debugged it. Wizardry.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 8:45 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 8:45 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Hmmm, I had Fanfare showing in my Newsblur feed all along. Mysterious.
posted by Chrysostom at 8:52 PM on July 23, 2015
posted by Chrysostom at 8:52 PM on July 23, 2015
FanFare, yes. This is MyFanFare; just my selected shows show up in the feed so I don't have to wade through the rest to find the ones I watch.
posted by scalefree at 9:17 PM on July 23, 2015
posted by scalefree at 9:17 PM on July 23, 2015
Oh, I see. I just get there with the training feature of Newsblur, so I forgot about MyFanFare.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:02 PM on July 23, 2015
posted by Chrysostom at 10:02 PM on July 23, 2015
We had a deal, Kyle: "The Old Reader (which for non-huge numbers of feeds is the cheapskate alternative to NewsBlur/Feedly etc"
Feedly is free, so Feedly is also a cheapskate alternative to NewsBlur/Feedly etc.
posted by Bugbread at 12:17 AM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Feedly is free, so Feedly is also a cheapskate alternative to NewsBlur/Feedly etc.
posted by Bugbread at 12:17 AM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
I use a locally hosted version of Tiny Tiny RSS that I've tweaked to look and behave like Google Reader. It's pretty good out of the box but if you're familiar with CSS and PHP you can really customize it.
posted by pb (staff) at 8:33 AM on July 24, 2015
posted by pb (staff) at 8:33 AM on July 24, 2015
I've been using Tiny Tiny RSS pretty much right out of the box with no tweaks. Would you mind describing what you customized about it?
posted by moonmilk at 11:29 PM on July 24, 2015
posted by moonmilk at 11:29 PM on July 24, 2015
Would you mind describing what you customized about it?
Sure, it's been a while since I did the customizing but I think I mostly just took things away that I wasn't going to use. I put starring posts in the lower left corner and changed how dates and titles are displayed. Then I just did some basic CSS stuff to restyle everything so it looked more like Google Reader. Here's a screenshot.
The downside to all this customization is that I'm way behind on updates. It works pretty well for me though so I don't have a big need to update.
posted by pb (staff) at 1:51 PM on July 25, 2015
Sure, it's been a while since I did the customizing but I think I mostly just took things away that I wasn't going to use. I put starring posts in the lower left corner and changed how dates and titles are displayed. Then I just did some basic CSS stuff to restyle everything so it looked more like Google Reader. Here's a screenshot.
The downside to all this customization is that I'm way behind on updates. It works pretty well for me though so I don't have a big need to update.
posted by pb (staff) at 1:51 PM on July 25, 2015
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