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Originally Posted by bleeman
...I have been wondering about lately with regards to the "Thoughts" forums in general. I received this post in my RSS Feeds for Digital Home Thoughts, PocketPC Thoughts, SmartPhone Thoughts, and Zune Thoughts. Now interestingly enough when I clicked on each of the "View Article" links it brought me here to SmartPhone Thoughts. What I wanted to know is are you guys now cross-posting to all 4 sites with the link taking us back to the appropriate forum, is there something wrong with my RSS reader (I'm using Outlook 2007), or is there something wrong with your RSS feed?
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You know, when I posted this at 2am I had a valid thought process for why I included it in all of our sites but for the life of me I cannot remember it. I guess this is why you shouldn't work after midnight... or feed magwai.
To answer your question though our current news posting system allows us to take a central post to one forums, such as this, and hot link it to our sister sites when the post is relevant or we have an announcement that we want everyone to hear.
I understand your frustration with the feeds, I have the same frustration but we have a lot of Thoughts Media users that only parse one site and not all of them so if we only had the item show up no the 'home base' feed and not the other feeds, those users would miss out. I have had an few ideas that could help eliminate this frustration, that I am happy I am not the only one that whom has it, and hopefully I can sit down with Jason and go over those ideas soon.
So I guess what I'm trying to say bleeman is don't give up on the feeds just yet. They problem is fresh in my mind and I'm trying to think of an elegant solution for individual such as ourselves who parse the whole kitchen caboodle.
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Originally Posted by bleeman
Thanks for considering this and thanks too for all the hard work you all put in on our behalf as I do appreciate it.
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And thank you for continuing to come back to our sites. Without our readers us editors wouldn't have much to do
