Community Suggestion: Ability to Specify a text field as an RSS Description in an article
Ability to Specify a text field as an RSS Description in an article
New Feature Addition · Articles & templates · Created by Slipshod1
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Individual Articles in the RSS feed do not currently have anything in the <description> field, so RSS updates can't include any information beyond the title of the article. This results in poor looking RSS articles in whatever reader (or bot) you are using to view them. I use a Telegram bot to feed new article notifications into my TTRPG group's Telegram chat, and with the current functionality the only thing the players in the game see when an article is updated is "Article Name". There is nothing that explains anything further about the significance of the article, or a summary.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
If you could add an additional field to articles for "Article Description" we could optionally add a quick summary or flavor text for an article which is intended to be published to the RSS feed.What are other uses for this feature request?
Anywhere an article could be listed amongst other articles it a possible place where a description field could be useful to add further context and/or differentiation to the article.Follow up
This is *NOT* Implemented. Here's the RSS I'm getting from my world: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <channel> <title>Goldenhome</title> <link>http://www.worldanvil.com/w/goldenhome-slipshod1</link> <language>en</language> <description>Recently updated articles stream for Goldenhome by Slipshod1</description> <item> <title>Letter 33: The Masquerade, The Auction, & The Auspicious Fortune</title> <description></description> <link>http://www.worldanvil.com/w/goldenhome-slipshod1/a/letter-333A-the-masquerade2C-the-auction2C-26-the-auspicious-fortune-report</link> <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 17:42:33 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">2e4f0de5-b2d1-4a85-a6fd-ef2c9a48c7a6</guid> </item>
The Team's Response
Thanks for your suggestion! We're closing this as the feature is already implemented. The description field in the RSS feed uses the article's excerpt, not the vignette..
Current score
9/300 Votes · +2002 points
Votes Cast
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+100
by themrbeasley
on 2024-03-14 17:51I thought this was already a thing, but I must have imagined it. Have a few coins, and lets see what the dev says.
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+300
by WorldbuildingJet
on 2024-03-13 15:43 -
+300
by SoulLink
on 2024-03-11 12:02 -
+1
by Amancham
on 2024-03-01 11:30 -
+1
by Michael Chandra
on 2024-02-29 16:46 -
+300
by Telarn
on 2024-02-26 10:36 -
+100
by ss2020
on 2024-02-25 20:21 -
+300
by DramaticDragons
on 2024-02-24 17:40 -
+300
by Deus-ex-mapping23
on 2024-02-24 15:20 -
+300
by Slipshod1
on 2024-02-24 08:09
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