Re: Approach to atompub implementation for a forum

[Eric Scheid <eric.scheid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/12/07 6:02 AM, "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxxxxx> wrote:

>>>>> But even a modest forum will quickly accumulate a few
>>>>> thousand threads, at which point a feed-per-thread scheme
>>>>> forces you to either deal with polling thousands of
>>>>> subscriptions
>>>> 
>>>> This assumes you automatically subscribe to all child
>>>> collections, but why would you do that?
>>> 
>>> To get the same functionality as you get in every web forum:
>>> no matter how old a thread, when someone replies to it, it
>>> bubbles to the top and you get a chance to see the new reply.
>> 
>> only if you actually go an open that topic thread to read it
>> ... you don't need to subscribe to the child collection of
>> replies to be notified of a change in the topic itself
>> (assuming the metadata in the topic entry is tweaked each time
>> there's a reply, eg. updating a count of replies)
> 
> How would you know? What feed do you subscribe to be notified?

the forum feed, where each entry represents one topic (which then links to
the feed/collection of replies to those individual topics)

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