Comments on: Day 12: RSS and Atom

By: New Comer

New Comer — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:21:13 +0000

How do I backup my RSS feeds in case I format my drive, obviously I cannot visit all the sites and signup for the feeds manually, please advise...

((TjL adds: I believe that information is saved in one of the .ini inside your profile directory.))

By: Ruth

Ruth — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:46:55 +0000

I have just upgraded from Opera7 to Opera8, and I found initially that the RSS link in the addressbar does not appear.

It turns out that this is related to email preferences I had set up in Opera7 - since I don't use the mail application, I had previously disabled the "Show e-mail account". As described in the comments on Day 11 by Peter Karlsson, this setting has been removed from Opera8 and needs to be changed in opera6.ini.

I'm not sure why the RSS feeds are linked to this setting in this way, but changing it in the opera6.ini file has solved the problem. I hope this helps anyone else having problems.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:31:28 +0000

I signed up for some feeds and when I clicked on "Feeds" in the toolbar, it wold show "Read feeds", "Manage feeds..." and the list of feeds.

I signed up for a few more feeds and now it doesn't list the feeds. It just says "Read feeds" and "Manage feeds...".

How do I switch it back? I'm not sure what I did. :(

By: Carlos Dominguez

Carlos Dominguez — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:47:25 +0000

I would love to see a Safari-type RSS-reader in Opera.

By: Rus

Rus — Mon, 16 May 2005 22:08:03 +0000

I'm not sure what's happened here, but after enabling a feed from this very page (naturally), which was my first one, I never got a Feeds menu added. (I do however have Mail and Chat menus, which you don't seem to have, so presumably there is a way of customising this. I may have already done so, but if so then it was way back when and by now I've completely forgotten how.)

Another minor point, after receiving my brand spanking new 30 Days feed, I couldn't find them in my mail folder at first. Perhaps adding something to the effect of "Ensure that Mail --> Show Account" is set to 'All Accounts' to view your feeds" would be useful (mine was set to just "Mail Accounts") - although if some users haven't got the Mail menu then I don't know how to get there...

I'd just like to clarify that I'm a little confused in general on this subject, so if anything I've mentioned here has been covered above and I just haven't recognised it, then I apologise for talking rubbish.

Yours uncertainly,

-Rus

By: LG

LG — Sun, 15 May 2005 11:35:29 +0000

Is there any way to organize opera feeds in folders? and a way to update all the feeds at once?

{{LG: I believe the answer to both questions is "No" but I hope there will be in the future -- TjL}}

By: notreuben

notreuben — Mon, 09 May 2005 17:40:42 +0000

i agree, firefox rss feed opening up in bookmarks is much better than the opera integration of it with their mail feature

By: Rueben

Rueben — Sun, 08 May 2005 09:35:50 +0000

I'm sorry but I have to agree with Constantine. I was attracted to Opera because it has moderate memory use compared to Firefox. However, when importing bookmarks I found I was unable to transfer feeds. Firefox has very simple integration of feeds. Icons representing different feeds on my toolbar would change when they were updated. I could pull-down the menu and open up the page if I chose.

The email setup doesn't make sense to me... I want to look up and see any update without going there.

By: Skit

Skit — Fri, 06 May 2005 08:16:28 +0000

Tip: If you are only using M2 for RSS, I have two more suggestions to make. First, click on “Received” under “All Messages” and then over in the right hand window click on the View icon (eyeglasses), then choose “Show” and make sure that “Show Newsfeeds” is checked.

Isn't this the same as clicking 'Read Feeds' under the 'Feeds' menu?

By: TreeGo

TreeGo — Thu, 05 May 2005 06:07:23 +0000

Not sure what you're talking about Constantine ... I think it very intuitive for RSS feeds to appear as mail messages.

When I click on an RSS feed, I am taken to a RSS feed window with a summary usually of the article referenced with the link easily displayed for clicking on to see the full article.

It integrates wonderfully with the Opera Suite.

I have tried the RSS add-on/extension for Mozilla, SharpReader, Maxthon's RSS newsfeed reader, Firefox's RSS, Firefox's Sage extension, and finally the web's offering of Bloglines.

I'll take Opera over 'em all. It works wonderfully and elegantly, I think.

It is nice to be able to forward newsfeeds so easily to my contacts when interesting/relevant artictles arise.