feature release [part II]: RSS and recommendations and comments

As Mario mentioned, we had so much  going on in this release that we couldn't possibly cover it all in one blog post. He's already covered the new groups functionality, but that's far from everything! We've also made some changes to comment notifications, RSS feeds, and recommendations on item pages.

Comment Notifications

Many of you have mentioned that you don't like the fact that comment notifications cut off after a certain number of respones. Well, those days are no more! Comment notifications will now be unlimited.

If you're thinking that might be a little overwhelming to get individual emails for every comment, you can head over to  your account settings and sign up for daily, weekly, or monthly digests instead.

RSS

We've made some changes to offer even more options for RSS feeds. In addition to being able to grab RSS feeds for a group or tag, we now have RSS feeds for searches and people. You can also grab an RSS feed for Current Stories, or for videos recently added to Current.com.

Grabbing an RSS feed is super easy. For example, say I want to grab an RSS feed for any knitting related items on Current.

First, I'd do a quick search for knitting.

After I've checked out Real Men Who Knit, I might decide I want to get an RSS feed to keep up with my knitting-related content. So I'll check up in my browser's address bar for the blue (or orange, depending on your browser) RSS button.

Once I've clicked that, I'll be able to add the RSS to whatever feed reader I like and get all the latest updates!

Recommendations

We've also made some changes to the recommended stories on item page. Rather than mixing all the related items together, you can now view related stories by group.

So, if I'm checking out Why America is flunking science and I want to see what's similar, I can look to the right and  decide if I want to find related stories in Movies, News, or News and Politics.  But if you really loved seeing recommendations all mixed together, don't worry. Just scroll down a bit to see a random selection of related stories.

And that's it! Keep in mind that your feedback helps us shape things to come, so be sure to let us know what you think, or if you see any quirky behavior on the site. You can send us feedback by clicking on the feedback tab on the blog, head directly over to our Get Satisfaction page for groups, or by sending us ol' fashioned email at feedback [at] current.com.

Steph