FAQ
What is planetclimbing.org?
Planetclimbing is a feed aggregation site for climbing related content.
Who is behind planetclimbing.org?
Currently it's mostly a one-man-sideproject of
andreas@rockclimber.org
What kind of feeds do you aggregate?
We currently aggregate feeds from blogs, news-sites, Flickr, Youtube, Vimeo etc. We try to
support all interesting feeds with climbing related content.
How do I add a feed? How do I add my blog?
Use the
Suggest a feed box on the right. The feed will be reviewed by our editors
before being added to the site.
What turns up on the front page?
Right now it's up to our editors promote interesting content to the frontpage.
Latest content from all aggregated feeds is available under
Everything.
Why create a user? How do I create a user?
If you
sign in (we recommend you use an existing identity from Google, Facebook, Yahoo! etc)
you can create your own feed with your favorite feeds and tags.
X feature isn't working!
This is a work in progress, expect some things to be broken from time to time.
You are welcome to give us feedback, use the box on the right.
planetclimbing.org looks crap in my browser
Using IE? Get a real browser, if not see below.
planetclimbing.org looks crap in all browsers.
Yeah, I'm not a designer.
Nice logo dude.
See above.
How often do you fetch a feed?
That depends upon how often the feed is updated, but in general about once every hour.
Is the planetclimbing spider well behaved? Does it understand Last-modified, ETags?
Yes.
What technologies are you using?
We'll probably write an article about the architecture behind planetclimbing.org in the future.
The site is not based on
http://www.planetplanet.org.
Is this a commercial project?
No, although we'll probably need some sort of sponsoring to cover the cost of servers and bandwith.
So expect some discrete advertising on the site in the future.
