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mysociety / yournextrepresentative

A website for crowd-sourcing structured election candidate data
https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/
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As a User I would like to subscribe to an RSS feed of changes to candidates in my constituency #107

Open davidmiller opened 9 years ago

davidmiller commented 9 years ago

...because I live in a fantasy world of nostalgia and RSS Feed readers.

fawkesley commented 9 years ago

:+1:

symroe commented 9 years ago

PR #118 gives a global RSS feed of changes. Adding per-constituency feeds will require adding some more columns to the LoggedAction model.

This seems like a reasonable thing to do so I'll make a different PR for that.

netclift commented 9 years ago

Might this become a universal be notified of changes via rss, email, etc option? You might allow people to have watch areas which could start with one constituency but then add others. I would think alerts would motivate lots of political folks to create accounts and then feed the system updates more as well.

mhl commented 7 years ago

...because I live in a fantasy world of nostalgia and RSS Feed readers.

:smile: Although I think this would enable quite a lot of customized alert possibilities, through external tools like IFTTT too, so it's still very relevant.

[...] Adding per-constituency feeds will require adding some more columns to the LoggedAction model.

There's more detail about what would need to be done to log post-level information in this ticket: https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative/issues/884

Might this become a universal be notified of changes via rss, email, etc option? You might allow people to have watch areas which could start with one constituency but then add others. I would think alerts would motivate lots of political folks to create accounts and then feed the system updates more as well.

As I mentioned above, I think this could be an easy starting step to getting such alerts via tools that consume RSS feeds. However I should also mention that we do have code in the project that makes it easy to add notifications via arbitrary media in the alerts Django app (written by @struan). There's a command for sending alerts by email for example but most development was put on hiatus before we ever exposed the ability to sign up for alerts in the frontend of YNR.