User:ShakataGaNai/OneBotToRuleThemAll
Idea tossed around in IRC on 2009-09-17 after shit going badly wrong. Enwn.net had a shit fit because of the RSS feed getting hosed. The RSS feed was pushing out articles that weren't sighed & one that was published 18+ months ago. So on and so forth, it was a bad day.
Features of The Bot
[edit]- Run on a regular schedule (IE once a minute)
- Scan for newly published articles
- When new stories are found:
- Update a "Latest News" template of the last 20+ stories for the main page (instead of DPL)
- Update it's RSS feed
- Update Twitter/Identica/Facebook/Other social networking
- Optionally rotate leads (if that isn't incorporated into EPR)
- Would have the ability to "plug-in" further functionality down the line
- Example: If we have an iPhone application, it could "push" notifications
Why would we want to do this?
[edit]- One totally unified update system
- No more "hacks" like our current RSS system
- No more reliance on DPL
- We can control the behavior of what dictates when a story gets "published"
- We can dictate what it takes to "unplublish" a story
- No more mysterious stories floating into being "published" a year+ after the fact (or even a week+ late)
- Breaking updates to social networking would be much faster
- Overall a less hacked together system, with less load on the server (DPL is a strain)