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Ugh. RAT is one of the most expensive pages to render, so please be careful to poll such very rarely and turn it off when you aren't watching the feed. And use /bare/ so you don't waste resources rendering nodelets. These are just a few of the reasons why we provide XML feeds.

The thread information boils down to "parent ID" and "root ID", which are exposed in at least one XML feed designed for it and probably in other XML feeds for completeness. And if there is a feed that could use the addition of this information, surely you could find one of the 81 members of pmdev who could look into adding that information to that feed.

Update: Oh, be sure to used the "I've checked all of these" form so RAT doesn't waste time re-rendering stuff you already scraped. And you might want to look up how to properly do linking here since you link to RAT "logged me out".

- tye        

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Re^4: Recommended RSS-Feed for PerlMonks??? (polling)
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 03, 2008 at 16:41 UTC
    Hi

    Of course I intend to spare serverload! Thats why I will certainly not publish any pollscript for RAT!

    But do I get you right, there is actually no RSS Feed that allows displaying thread-trees and you suggest that I ask one of the devs to implement it?

    Cheers Rolf

    UPDATE: I started this thread because I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but which is the best wheel the monks use out there?

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      You seem to have ignored: 'The thread information boils down to "parent ID" and "root ID", which are exposed in at least one XML feed'.

      - tye        

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        Maybe a misunderstanding ... I thought if a feed exposes this info, a feed reader like Thunderbird should be able to extract them and produce a thread-outline! So one only need to recommend this "rich" feed!

        But you want to tell me instead of parsing the RAT-webpage I should better write a client parsing this feed. Right?

        As I said I'm new to RSS ...

        Cheers Rolf

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