The new Protein® Feed
so, you may have noticed over the last few days a few changes to the feed. we've been beta testing the new RSS API aggregator that we're hoping is going to point the feed in whole new direction.
the logic behind this decision is one driven by frustration! too many feeds and not enough time. hence we are hand selecting the top 5 feeds across each protein channel that are currently available online today and creating our very own RSS style feed reader. it's is a slight departure from the existing members own feed/blog, but we hope/think you'll agree it's a great addition.
the plan once all the feeds are in place is to the introduce a multi level filter system that will allow you to filter all the seeds based on the following:
1. your posts
2. your peeps posts
3. protein members posts
4. all protein posts
5. all web posts
thoughts, comments and suggestions as always greatly received.
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I'm frightened.
frightened good or frightened bad?
Just a little overwhelmed by the amount of stuff coming through right now - it's like i turned my back for a couple of days and POW! I liked being able to check in every couple of days and stay on top of the posts, now it feels like i'm chasing it.
I do think my problem is with volume, the quality seems to be all good, esp some great little mixes coming thru.
point taken, but i think the new filter system should help. i'm really keen to ramp up the quantity of posts across all the content channels, whilst also making sure we maintain the quality, because if we lose that, we lose everything.
so people, how are we liking the new feed? too many posts? too many feeds? too much fashion? not enough tech? talk to us ...
personally, i'm loving the freshness, but agree there is a considerably more stuff to get through. also, i'm feeling the members feeds are getting a little lost within the syndicated stuff. the new filter system will fix this, but would be get to get everyones thoughts in the meantime.
happy friday!
As we have already spoken about Will, I like to see what the 'hardcore' protein peeps are posting - I watch for certain peoples posts and read them more than others if I know they take my angle on things. I also agree with Larry that its easy to get buried right now in the sheer volume of information, but that seems to have just slowed down.
agreed. we've now changed the format around so the member's blogs as split from the aggregated feeds. however, we are still having a few teething problems with the feed parser which isn't dropping the feeds into the channels yet, but that's not for you to worry about.
that said, we're still on the look out for fresh feeds to feature, so if you have any personal favourites that you would like to see on protein, then speak up!
How about a bit of twitter integration? I'm not really checking sites and feeds anymore (too busy dah-ling), and prefer getting free twitter SMS notifications. More like a 'push' feed service, rather than 'pull'.
yes, we can do that. would you want updates on every new post or once a day?
Probably every new post, this seems to be the way other sites have integrated with Twitter. But I'm not sure on the volume this would generate. Twitter has a 350 limit per month I think. Maybe your proposed filter will give some further flexibility
yeah that might be a problem as the new feed aggregator is generating about 10-15 new posts a day. i'll have a look into it and get back to you. what's your handle btw?
intradink. duh.
follow this for some twitter/protein love:
http://twitter.com/proteinfeed
Wow, I've missed a ton of updates to the OS. Looking amazing, it's all coming together nicely...
cheers dude. still along way to go!
only just caught up - looks good - starting to bubble
- paul
ok, some new rules for the new feed ...
we have limited access to an invited selection of members and guests with the focus now being on longer format interviews, reviews and insights into exclusive people, places and products. i'm really keen to get us back to the original curated/editorial feed that i launched the site with back in the day.
so, if you fancy becoming a feed contributor or editor, then please get in touch with some examples of your writing and areas of interest.
i think that answers my question as to how to post! how do normal members contrib?
i second matt and larry, more is less. I used to like it back in the day when my protein email dropped and i knew that i would dedicate the next lunchbreak to chewing through the bits and pieces it through up, i guess the only downside with that model is it reduces members perceived ownership of the sight and all that follows from that
should do all my thinking in one post! how about using the forum/member blog as a content filter? anything that gets enough interest makes the weekly edit and post to front page feed?
yup, that works too. looking a load of different digg/favourite models for promotion member contributed content to the feed.
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