Talk:H*R.com updates 2005

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Revision as of 20:44, 24 November 2004

Maybe this should be moved to HSR.com updates, since asterisks in URLs are ugly. - furrykef 17:38, 11 Oct 2004 (MST)

H*R seems to be the standard abbreviation you see around the net when referring to Homestar Runner. I don't really care what the URL looks like, frankly. I say to leave it as is. Render

I kind of agree with Render. "HSR.com" doesn't mean anything to me; I think it's confusing. Note that you can still type "H*R.com updates" into your Address bar and you'll still get to the correct page, even though the browser will encode your URL. — InterruptorJones[[]]

I've never used the "HSR" abbreviation. Who uses that anyway? And since we're talking about typing stuff in address bars, here's a fun fact: typing "Homestar Runner updates" into Google's "I'm feeling lucky" search (or just typing it into Firefox's location bar) will land you on our Main Page. -- Tom 12:03, 12 Oct 2004 (MST)

We could change it to "Official Site Updates". Would that remedy the confusion between abbreviations? --JoeyDay 12:29, 12 Oct 2004 (MST)

Just make a redirect or something, like the one for my profile (which will link you to my Wikipedia profile). There's no reason that there shouldn't be a redirect. In fact, I think I'll go do one right now, save people some time.

And for the record, I use the "HSR" abbreviation. Both are acceptable abbreviations from what I can tell; whichever one you use is entirely up to personal preference. I just happen to prefer "HSR" since I think the asterisk looks kinda funky used in an abbreviation like that. Shadow Hog 15:07, 12 Oct 2004 (MST)

RSS

Could we get an RSS feed for this page like the one in recent changes? That would be very handy :) -Southpaw018

What is an RSS feed? ~Hobo

There's some good information on RSS in this forum topic and on the HRWiki:Feeds page. -- Tom 15:09, 15 Oct 2004 (MST)

Sad to say, a feed for this page does not look like it's gonna happen anytime soon. In the meantime, you can use this feed. http://interglacial.com/rss/homestar.rss --James 16:46, 19 Oct 2004 (MST)

Parsing Error

The H*R.com updates article has been throwing an error since a recent upgrade. Has anyone else seen other pages doing this? I think it has something to do with the template. Other pages are loading templates just fine, and, in fact, Template:updates is viewable. So why would the program have problems inserting that template onto this page? --JoeyDay 12:49, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)

Update: there seem to be problems loading the updates template onto any page (I just tried in the sandbox). Any ideas? --JoeyDay 12:55, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)

Check your comp. I see the template just fine and dandy, I don't know why you wouldn't be. (Unless, of course, it was fixed in the last three hours, which isn't impossible.) --Shadow Hog 13:23, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)

It wasn't the template that was the problem. As I mentioned above, the template was viewable, it was just throwing errors when used on pages. Actually, everything is fixed now. I re-uploaded all the files for MediaWiki and that seems to have fixed things up nicely. --JoeyDay 13:43, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)