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« on: November 24, 2009, 12:37:24 am »
Nah I should be fine. I hardly ever use RSS feeds anyway, I don't really see the need for them on my side unless I would like to revive the defunct TI-News website or something
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« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2009, 01:43:09 am »
Well, I had this idea for about 2 years actually, since the TI-News.net website was discontinued. However, I was unsure about how to do it. It would have involved setting bots on my webspace that would check most TI websites that got news and post the news on the news website. It would either require someone with good website coding knowledge or if we used a SMF-style website (maybe it could be a sub-website from Omnimaga website?) a mod that enable bots grabbing news from other websites. IIRC it was quite hard to do with TI-News, as sometimes, websites design gets updated so the new code screwed up with the bots. RSS feeds fixed that, obviously, tho.

That said, if we did that, maybe it would be better to also include the latest posts of every TI forum, because with just news, even if we include international language websites, it would probably not be that active. Also, it would be best to disable commenting on such website, to encourage signing up on every other sites. I mean, it would kinda suck if people could comment on ticalc news elsewhere instead of the website it was posted on.
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« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2009, 10:12:28 am »
This sounds like a good idea. Rss feed would work. Unfortunatly uti doesn't have an rss feed that I can find.
Yeah, we would have to cut out commenting. Also we could post our own news...but only certain people can.
I'm really liking this idea.
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« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2009, 02:15:01 pm »
"maybe it could be a sub-website from Omnimaga website?"
This way, nobody should have to pay for another host =]

I was thinking about something like this too a while ago =D
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« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2009, 03:01:01 pm »
Well I do have multiple databases so it would probably be doable. But yeah, comes the issue of coding bots that can grab news from other websites.
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« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2009, 05:42:33 pm »
I could get my code monkey TsukasaZX on that :p if he's up to it that is
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« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2009, 12:46:51 am »
Code monkey on union strike for more bananas and pomegranate juice D:<

Nah, kidding, I'll lend a hand to whatever y'alls need done :)
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« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2009, 01:04:07 am »
Lol, hold on I'll mail a few more :p
sweet! This looks like a feesable project :D can't wait to get it done!
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« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2009, 03:09:58 am »
Of course, keep in mind that Calcg.org alerady started some sort of TI-News again, though, if you check their front page at http://www.calcg.org. Now they have news from ticalc.org and brandonw.net. I am not sure if they would add every forum, though, considering they generally don't post as much news and when they do they're mostly website-related news rather than calc news

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« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2009, 10:15:16 am »
That's new... Yeah...I'd ratther do it because they don't have all the news.
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« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2009, 12:40:30 pm »
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« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2009, 04:54:18 pm »
Quote from: Eeems on November 25, 2009, 10:15:16 am
That's new... Yeah...I'd ratther do it because they don't have all the news.
Yeah true. Ticalc seems to do pretty good at covering news themselves, now, though, but still, all TI news in one place would be cool so people won't miss stuff
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« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2009, 07:38:32 pm »
yeah, we should get started on this...maybe a topic for the next skype conference?
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« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2009, 04:30:52 pm »
when is the next conference??
and yeah this soundls like a great idea it will definetily be awsome XD
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« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2009, 05:12:23 pm »
There will be one friday and saturday but if anyone is up for one this evening I am in
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