[PLUG-TALK] Calagator RSS feed

[Keith Lofstrom]

A Flame (oh boy!):

Why oh why is the Calagator RSS feed in event creation order
rather than event calendar order?  

I use protopage.com for my Firefox and Chrome startup page,
with a collection of links to oft-used websites across the
top, weather, and news site RSS on the sides.  A great
replacement for iGoogle.

In the middle is the calagator RSS, which currently features
events as far out as March, while events like Sunday's Linux
Clinic is scrolled off the top of the list.  It now lists
events in the order people enter them.  Towards the beginning
of the year, many people are putting their next three months
of scheduled meetings on the list, and their meetings will
also scroll off the top long before they happen.

The normal Calagator webpage is ordered correctly, but that is
another click, not part of my "main internet control panel". 
It is like putting a car's speedometer in the back seat ("you
can see it in the rear view mirror,  what's the problem?").

I can imagine why a version of RSS used for debugging might
list events in entry order, and why "R", the Calagator 
maintainer who "answered" and dismissed my complaint on the
github bug list, would claim that this is the best way for
the RSS to function.  But most neurotypical users may prefer
an actual calendar, perhaps provided by a separate RSS feed.

My (admittedly untrustworthy) memory is that Calagator RSS
used to be in calendar order.  But then, my memory used to
be good enough that I did not need Calagator RSS to keep
track of what is happening over the next few days.

Oh well, at this rate the world will become so user-hostile
that even the coders who design it that way won't be able
to survive.  Then we can start over with human-centered
design again.  Read Alan Cooper's "The Inmates are Running
the Asylum" - especially if you are a wannabee coder living
in your parent's basement, and nobody will give you a job.

Flame off - you may now return to your regularly scheduled
temperature (if you can find your schedule...).

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com