Great House Fliggerty Presents:

http://tesfeed.fliggerty.com



TESFeed is an RSS aggregator that caters specifically to sites that pertain to The Elder Scrolls. It combines all of the feeds I have been able to find after scouring every link source I have come across (and Google!) into a single, easy-to-read site.

TESFeed also provides four RSS feeds that you can add to your own feed reader based upon the category of the original feeds: Development, Forums, Mod Hosts, and News.



RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to.

http://www.problogger.net/what-is-rss/


Now, here's where you come in: I need/want more feeds for this! I'm sure that I have missed something somewhere, so keep an eye out when you are looking through TES sites. Let me know if you find any other feeds!

And if you are a webmaster of a TES-related site and want to be included, all you need to do is add an RSS feed (2.0 is best, but any version will work, ATOM is not supported) to your site. There are an awful lot of tools, tutorials, and even generators available that can help you with that. So once you have a feed, let me know and I'll include it right away.


Please enjoy!

--Fligg

Awesomeness.

Excellent stuff, thanks Fliggerty :thumbsup: Now, which to subscribe to...

Well...you could subscribe to them all....

Believe it or not, I don't know what RSS feed is

Oh God yes. Now I can stalk mulitple forums simultaniously. Including ones I don't have an account on.

THIS IS AWESOME

I've been told that as soon as TESFU gets re-established and they complete their overhaul, they will also have a forum feed that will be added to the list. :goodjob:

Is ES forum impossible to add? well, I guess I keep myself kind of updated still.

Nice work on compiling this =)

I wish it was. It requires there be an RSS feed though, which there isn't. elderscrolls.com does have a news feed, but it's broken right now. I brought it to GStaff's attention, so it will hopefully be working soon so I can add it.

Maybe if we all badger him about adding a feed here....

Yeah, that would be cool =)

Should be easy to add these collected feeds to Samurize, that way I can have 5min updates displayed on my desktop.

No need to update every 5 mins. The overall system only updates every 30 mins. So save yourself a bit of bandwidth.

I added the various Niftools feeds. :goodjob:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=rssfeed&group_id=149157&atid=776346

Rapidly followed by me unsubscribing from the Development RSS feed :shrug: Too much info.

Still tweaking things. I am considering removing a select few of the Niftools feeds. Would it be beneficial to perhaps cut down the number pf posts from each source?

Edit: I removed all but the general activity feed on Niftools. I also added the same for MGE.

And re-subscribed Sorry if I came across as snippy in my last post.

As I don't subscribe to that many feeds I use Brief (a pretty basic extension for Firefox) and I've found the formatting for the Constuction Set wiki to be, I think, pure wikicode. Anyone else getting this?

As to the number of posts I think I'll need a few more days to make a decent comment. One thing I thought of: as I'm not online all the time and sometimes go away from a net connection, how many entries are included from each source? Say I went away for two weeks would I come back to two weeks worth of posts or would things be restricted to, say, the last 48 hours.

I've added another feed category (haven't yet made the full feed link for it yet though.) It is for modder/community member personal blogs. Currently Princess_Stomper's is the sole source of that feed.

I'd make a feed but I hardly ever update my site... hmm, I wonder if there are any others.

I think this warrants a bump and a huge "Thank you" to Fliggerty. I've been subscribed to these feeds (except the Forum one as I'm not registered on GHF or TES Alliance) since he introduced this and it's an absolute godsend.

Thanks for the bump and recommend Dragon32! :goodjob:

I love the feeds...it really simplified my daily browsing routine! I sure hope it proves to be useful to others.

I need a quick tutorial on the setup/use of feeds. I know I must sound like the 'net equivalent of that lady at the self-checkout who just stands and stares at the pretty red light . . . but I wanna understand. :confused: It sounds useful, it looks useful, but I can't quite put my finger on how to implement it in my daily routine. :user:

"How to" http://johnbokma.com/firefox/rss-and-live-bookmarks.html, it's really easy but I use the Brief extension rather than the built-in stuff. There're number of other readers (both standalone and extensions) out there. Brief is pretty basic but it works for me

Jac says Opera has a built-in reader, but it would help me greatly if you shared how *you* use it. I mean you in particular, rather than the general 'how's it work?' I can figure out how to subscribe and the nuts and bolts, but what does it do to make your life easier?

Comprende. Ok, here's a shot of http://brief.mozdev.org/images/home-screenshot-big.png running in Firefox. Every hour it checks the RSS feeds I've subscribed to and the orange icon in the status bar will turn orange (from grey) if there are any new items in those feeds, it'll also show me the total number of new items.

Currently I subscribe to (not many) feeds including Slashdot, Metafilter, SF Signal, TESFeed and others. What it means for me is I launch my browser, head on over here or some other site and see what's going on. When I've done whatever I launched my browser to do I can then load up the Brief page and see what feeds have been updated. Sometimes I'll then have a solid session of reading through them all and other times (when there's a feed I'm particularly interested in) I'll just select that one and catchup.

With TESFeed the two things I'm particularly interested in at the moment are (i) mod site updates for TES Nexus and PES (what're the new mods that've been updated), (ii) what's going on with MGE and NIFSkope development (e.g. has a new revision been committed or has there been a new release). I can see all that from the Brief page without going separately to Nexus, PES and Sourceforge. I also get a load of info on the Bethesda Blog, but then I'm not that interested in Fallout

So...

It basically means that I'm updated on what's going on without having to check a bunch of sites. Now I could set a bunch of pages as my home tabs and they're opened each time I launch my browser. But that'd be 14 tabs. I'd also miss out on any updates that happen during a browsing session, as I assume after checking them that first time I'd close the tabs down and surf away.

I choose what websites I'm interested in and I'm automatically told when those sites have changed. It's convenient, manageable and pretty slick. I like.

Ahhh. Thanks so much for the info. I'll have to give it a try now that I know *why* I need it!

I don't think TESFeed has been updated to reflect the http://openmw.sourceforge.net/jaws/index.php/blog/show/New-News-Feed.html?
New feed: http://openmw.com/forum/feed.php?mode=news