Mobile RSS?
Could you make it so that http://m.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom would return a feed where the links pointed to m.thereg... rather than www.thereg...?
Mobile RSS?
This topic was created by Baudwalk .
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Tuesday 10th July 2012 16:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Mobile RSS?
Your answer from our lead dev. (BTW what he is proposing would take two or three days - but we have not scheduled this as a priority.)
right problem, imho, wrong solution.
One RSS feed, that takes you to either desktop or mobile as appropriate. That technology then works "for free" on twitter, facebook, email links, IM, reg.cx, etc, and we're in control so we can direct people better as we care to pend more time on the logic. Eg, if said m.thereg link shows up in a Windows
Phone client app, load it into the App, not the browser. Or other future mprovements (that don't require another rss format, and only works for those users smart enough tos spot it, act on it, and ensure it's only ever used in that context, and never come across anyone else who's cross the paths).
The trick is getting the "smarts" right, and smart enough, and fdoing it in a way that leaves the user in control.
That's a bit trickier to get right, but works for everyone in all situations. A dedicated mobile only RSS feed only works for those smart enough to tailor everything to their case, and adds confusion for (the vast majority of) others.
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Thursday 12th July 2012 06:10 GMT Baudwalk
Re: Mobile RSS?
Oh, no. Please. Not the app! It really is the slow and unappealing sibling to your sleek and sexy mobile site.
And it doesn't even include the comments section, which is my main reason for wanting an RSS feed to point me to m.thereg, as I can, and do, use ReadItLa^WPocket or GoodNews's mobiliser for reading the articles.
It's just that, since switching to mainly reading on the go, I no longer read the comments anywhere near as often as I used to, because the desktop comments section doesn't format well on my phone.
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Wednesday 27th February 2013 11:44 GMT Baudwalk
Re: Mobile RSS?
OK.
Gave your newest Android app version a spin. Much better than the old one.
Dark theme: Big plus.
Wouldn't auto-launching the app, rather than the browser, be as simple as registering an intent for "http://go.theregister.com"?
If so, I'm kind of wondering why that's not already in the app.
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Friday 13th July 2012 11:00 GMT ninjatjj
Please please add this as a temporary workaround until whatever tech you would like to implement is ready. I go back and forward between having a link to the homepage, vs a google reader entry precisely because of this missing feature.
Also, I view the mobile version on desktop for obvious reasons too ;)
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