Comments on: Another Plus for the User-Reg Idea http://gfmorris.com/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/ The Life and Times of Geof F. Morris Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:52:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mb http://gfmorris.com/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-2620 mb Sat, 29 May 2004 03:31:12 +0000 http://ijsm.org/archives/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/#comment-2620 I'm just thinking of creating a feed for each of the sections and then one for all, and then letting the feed reader let you select what feeds you want, so it wouldn't really be directly involved as part of the register/login system. I think that's the easiest way of doing it. I’m just thinking of creating a feed for each of the sections and then one for all, and then letting the feed reader let you select what feeds you want, so it wouldn’t really be directly involved as part of the register/login system. I think that’s the easiest way of doing it.

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://gfmorris.com/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-2619 Geof F. Morris Thu, 27 May 2004 22:54:54 +0000 http://ijsm.org/archives/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/#comment-2619 Yeah, a complicated environment would make that hard, except for the fact that WP generates its syndication feeds on the fly. The issue is, of course, user authentication in the URL to the feed, unless your users are comfortable in having a feed URL like http://ijsm.org/atom/mb/ as a public URL. [Authenticating with user/pass through an aggregator can be a cast-iron bitch, and unless Atom can support that---haven't read the spec, don't know offhand---you're stewed.] Category-specific feeds are in the offing, and if you can filter based on category, I don't know how much of a leap forward it is to basing it on user prefs. Yeah, a complicated environment would make that hard, except for the fact that WP generates its syndication feeds on the fly. The issue is, of course, user authentication in the URL to the feed, unless your users are comfortable in having a feed URL like http://ijsm.org/atom/mb/ as a public URL. [Authenticating with user/pass through an aggregator can be a cast-iron bitch, and unless Atom can support that---haven't read the spec, don't know offhand---you're stewed.] Category-specific feeds are in the offing, and if you can filter based on category, I don’t know how much of a leap forward it is to basing it on user prefs.

]]> By: mb http://gfmorris.com/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-2618 mb Thu, 27 May 2004 22:49:12 +0000 http://ijsm.org/archives/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/#comment-2618 About opting to ignore certain categories, using feeds creates it own issue with that. You would have to create feeds for each category, and then allow the person to subscribe to whatever ones they want, but "site news," or whatever category you use for telling people about your site's changes would have to be a "must subscribe to," so people are at least aware of any site changes. Nothing like having a new category added that you want to know about and then not finding out about it. You would also have a feed with all the categories in it too. About opting to ignore certain categories, using feeds creates it own issue with that. You would have to create feeds for each category, and then allow the person to subscribe to whatever ones they want, but “site news,” or whatever category you use for telling people about your site’s changes would have to be a “must subscribe to,” so people are at least aware of any site changes. Nothing like having a new category added that you want to know about and then not finding out about it. You would also have a feed with all the categories in it too.

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://gfmorris.com/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-2617 Geof F. Morris Wed, 26 May 2004 22:10:28 +0000 http://ijsm.org/archives/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/#comment-2617 Matt, thanks for pointing that out. Oh, the joys of charsets... Your comment also points out one of the big problems about what I'm proposing--it's so easy to think of user-reg as comments first-and-foremost. One could set stylesheets, opt to ignore certain categories of postings, be given privileges to see posts that aren't displayed to the general public ... anything where you take the Weblog format from one-to-many and back to more of a one-on-one format. Matt, thanks for pointing that out. Oh, the joys of charsets…

Your comment also points out one of the big problems about what I’m proposing–it’s so easy to think of user-reg as comments first-and-foremost. One could set stylesheets, opt to ignore certain categories of postings, be given privileges to see posts that aren’t displayed to the general public … anything where you take the Weblog format from one-to-many and back to more of a one-on-one format.

]]> By: mb http://gfmorris.com/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-2616 mb Wed, 26 May 2004 21:56:18 +0000 http://ijsm.org/archives/2004/05/26/another-plus-for-the-user-reg-idea/#comment-2616 I'm not sure why, but you are getting some funky characters in your post. I think it's when single and double quotes are used. It makes your post harder to read. Anyway, I've been kicking around the ideas of things to do if you have people log into your blog for comments. You could set up the blog to look one way based on your preferences as the default and then give users the option to change certain things around based on how they want to view your blog, and no, I'm not talking just style sheet switching. :-) I’m not sure why, but you are getting some funky characters in your post. I think it’s when single and double quotes are used. It makes your post harder to read.

Anyway, I’ve been kicking around the ideas of things to do if you have people log into your blog for comments. You could set up the blog to look one way based on your preferences as the default and then give users the option to change certain things around based on how they want to view your blog, and no, I’m not talking just style sheet switching. :-)

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