RSS Feed

maocat

September 25, 2009, 05:59 PM posted in General Discussion

The Personal RSS Lesson Feed does not contain the last lessons, only future lesson or randomly selected lessons. Why? I find this very inconvinient, as I must download the lessons manually.

maocat

September 25, 2009, 06:01 PM

I also don't understand: why the above text is red and big? I never did such a formatting. Strange!

ChinesePod, seems there are quite some bugs in this web application.

John

September 29, 2009, 01:28 AM

lechuan,

No problem! We'd love to make it easier to use and more intuitive, so if you have any ideas for that, please let us know!

go_manly

September 25, 2009, 11:19 PM

maocat,

6 different complaints from 7 posts - seems as though you are intent on finding any negative you can

maocat

September 26, 2009, 07:56 AM

go_manly, if you can live with these bugs: OK for you.

go_manly

September 26, 2009, 08:26 AM

maocat,

I guess I just find it amazing that you found so many issues in your first week of use. (Or is it your first two days?) Most people would barely have found their way around the site in that time.

When I first joined CPOD, I also spend a fair bit of time figuring out the RSS feed and trying to figure out how to use it to download old lessons. Finally I realized that RSS is only for new stuff (I hadn't tried an RSS earlier).

maocat's feedback seems legitimate. CPOD is a top notch production. Any flaws, no matter how small, stand out and mar the user experience.

John

September 27, 2009, 06:23 AM

maocat,

Your personal RSS feed contains whatever you want it to contain. It contains any lessons you bookmark, and if you set it to contain all future lessons, it will.

I'm not clear on the distinction you're making between "last lessons" and "future lessons." You subscribe to future lessons in any channel you choose, and when they come out, they appear in your feed.

We have re-tested Skritter for a trial account and encountered no problems. You just have to enable the functionality. Could you describe the exact problem you're having?

maocat

September 25, 2009, 06:13 PM

Why it isn't possible to test the Skritter functionality within a CPOD trial? It does not work.

maocat

September 27, 2009, 03:45 PM

thank you.

maocat

September 28, 2009, 12:08 PM

How can I enable Skritter functionality?

bababardwan

September 28, 2009, 12:24 PM

maocat,

resources tab...add ons tab...click on enable skritter

maocat

September 28, 2009, 12:30 PM

Thank you, well hidden.

lechuan

September 28, 2009, 03:00 PM

Thanks John! Didn't realize RSS feed could download bookmarked lessons.

John

September 27, 2009, 06:24 AM

lechuan,

RSS can be used for old or new content. By default, it will give you new content, but you can uncheck the new content ("future lessons") in your RSS feed settings and add only old content (manually or automatically) if you wish.