Lodestone RSS News Feed Needed

When will the new Lodestone provide an RSS feed for news topics? The old Lodestone had this feature.

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Plus, the Developer Blog currently offers it. But not the new Lodestone.

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What is RSS? Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. It's a way to pull in news to an external website or a news reader so that you can get the latest information all in one place.

Those of us who run LS/FC and community sites need to be able to easily publish news. You can see various places where ARR news that used to thrive has now gone quiet.

Plus, kindly think of those who use RSS feed readers/apps. Everything from email/news clients to apps like Feedly.

This feature has been requested more than once throughout the forums since launch, but never acknowledged.

I searched to see if anyone mentioned how to get the info for the new RSS feed, if there was one. I didn't know there wasn't any at the moment. I would love the new Lodestone offer support for this. :)

I would like to second this request. It would be a lot easier and convenient for me if I could follow the news by feed. It would be far easier to see what's new news and what news I already read.

With today's post about the Moonfire Faire, it's becoming painfully obvious that news is missing on sites that normally brought it in via RSS. I just don't have time to babysit my FC website and manually post news articles. When is the new Lodestone going to provide a feed?

Sorry for the bump, but this needs to be done. RSS feeds for the lodestone, as well as dev posts

Two and a half months now, and no acknowledgement. Can we at least know if this is on the web team's to-do list?

So, imagine my surprise when a post showed up the other day in my Lodestone RSS feed... because it was from the old Lodestone!

How are we three months into launch with a bright and shiny new Lodestone that still doesn't have an essential news feature that even the clunky old Lodestone had?

Please, can we get a status update on an RSS feed for news topics?

/bump

Sorry not sorry, can we please have this already?

I've been searching everywhere for this and was sorely disappointed to find that apparently we still don't have one! I'd like to make this more available to my FC mates on our forums, particularly things like the Letters and patch notes and the like. Please bring this in!

A year and half since ARR's launch, and still no news about this feature. The 1.0 Lodestone had this, and it is a standard feature on many news and entertainment websites. Very disappointed.

Bumping this. I agree. This RSS needs to happen. I'm trying to get a feed going for our guild website to show in game activity from our guild as well as news from the lodestone.

I would like to ask a bit more concretely for this: Would it be possible to get the following implemented?

We would like RSS feeds which match the content categories listed on the Lodestone news page. We would be happy if those feeds only showed up for the news section pages on the Lodestone and listed the same content as clicking each of the news content category buttons at the top of the section. They also do not need links in the page content itself; using the standard method for discovery (tags in the page header) is sufficient.

This should not be a difficult project (a great project for a new hire to learn the system AND do something that the community would love!) or one which should cause any actual change in site functionality. The only change most people would notice would be if their browser notified them of news feeds available on a page, and it would not be unexpected to see a feed notification on a news page.

As all links in the RSS feed would be back to the Lodestone, this should not have a negative impact upon Lodestone viewership. Indeed, as the Lodestone would be linked to from more places, it may actually create a more engaged and profitable user base. Games requiring a subscription pretty much need long-term players; making it easier for those players to stay informed tends to increase subscription longevity.

This is something that the FFXIV community cannot adequately do ourselves, and which requires Square Enix to do properly. The best we can do is load Lodestone pages, scrape them for content, then repurpose the results as an RSS feed. This is subpar for performance, causes excess server load on both the implementer's system and on the Lodestone, and is frightfully fragile.

I realize that RSS feeds are provided for the forum. This, however, is not so useful for those of us who want notification of news on our device of choice. Personally, I stopped paying attention to the news articles in the launcher as I tend to notice them halfway through logging in (training myself to finish logging in was more work than not reading the news), so I have to go back and enter my username, password, and security token again after reading something. And most of us don't have the Lodestone's News page set as our home page.

Those of us who miss the feature would be eternally grateful to see a usable implementation appear. And, as I said before (and which your own data likely backs up), an engaged userbase is a profitable userbase. :cool:

Thank you.

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The Lodestone is still lacking an RSS feed! Please let us know this request is being passed on to the web team!

Just made one using Feed43 service, it will return all news from Topic section.

http://www.feed43.com/5503352426807702.xml

At least it's better than nothing

Another year, still nothing. I wanted to add news to my Discord server. The feed provided above needs credentials to use.

Hi, has anyone found a way yet? Thanks!

Yeah, we really need one, in every language !

Need RSS. Find this Thread. Read it. Don't find an answer. Push it. x)

One Up for the RSS feed !

I've been looking for this and wondering if anyone has any update or way to get a feed for the Lodestone.

I have good news for y'all they finally added an official RSS feed.

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Originally Posted by Vrykodin

I've been looking for this and wondering if anyone has any update or way to get a feed for the Lodestone.

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Is there a way to contact you? Would love to join your Free Company! Thank you. :)

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Originally Posted by FutsukoTakahara

I have good news for y'all they finally added an official RSS feed.

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FINALLY!!! :D:D:D

Thank you SO much, web devs! My Feedly and FC website are super happy to hear this!