Ape Apps

I was wondering if you could add a category element to the RSS feed, to know which category a topic belongs to.
Would be a great help.

Heya Bast, we have a special Channel on the FFF discord server for new forum topics. And lord of galaxy constructed a bot that uses the rss feed as source. It would make the feed a lot better if it contains the section where the new forum topic is located. General discussion, game ideas etc.

And maybe who started the thread. Just the username.

I'll see what I can do, after I am done working on the 0.51.0 update.

Thank you!

The RSS feed now includes two category elements on each item element, using standard RSS syntax:

<category domain="https://www.ape-apps.com/viewpage.php?p=20">My Colony</category>

<category domain="https://www.ape-apps.com/viewpage.php?p=25">Bug Reports</category>

The domain attribute is the link to the page on the forum, and the innertext of the element is the title. Pretty self explanatory.

Thanks!

Could you add author too? (Who started the thread would be nice)

I did add author originally, but I looked at the RSS spec and the author field required an email address to be valid and I did not want to make users' email addressed public.

Perhaps I will create a special namespace for the forum and add some kind of <apeapps:author> tag with just a username and perhaps a url for profile page and profile picture.

and Author information has just been added to the feed:

<apeforums:author>

                <apeforums:username>BLARG</apeforums:username>

                <apeforums:profile>https://www.ape-apps.com/profile.php?u=BLARG </apeforums:profile>

                <apeforums:avatar>https://accounts.ape-apps.com/images/uploads/AFD6B1A7-CA5F-C474-FE63-07783DA86AD5.jpg </apeforums:avatar>

            </apeforums:author>