Feasibility of adding OPDS feed?

[MartiuUwu]

Many EPUB readers support OPDS feeds, would be cool if SH could have one as well.

Would make it even easier to read on any device.

 

[Agentt]

Many EPUB readers support OPDS feeds, would be cool if SH could have one as well.

Would make it even easier to read on any device.

Ummm...what's opds?

 

[AliceShiki]

I don't think epub readers can support ads?

Feels kinda pointless for Tony to invest time in adding a feature that will actually reduce his revenue.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Ummm...what's opds?

I don't know, and I think I'm supposed to know these things.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

Ummm...what's opds?

Googled it. It stands for Open Publication Distribution System, but there was too much technobabble about what it actually was so I lost interest before I figured that out.

 

[Zirrboy]

The short of it:
OPDS is a feed format that allows e-readers to catalogue and import content of a given site.
Which may sound like little more than could be inferred from the initial mention, but there's not much to it in the first place.
It's just a format specification.

 

[Agentt]

Ahh, in that case, the closest thing I know is a rss bot from discord.

Other than that, while this is a very cool suggestion, something Tony might do in the future, but nothing pressing

 

[Ai-chan]

The short of it:
OPDS is a feed format that allows e-readers to catalogue and import content of a given site.
Which may sound like little more than could be inferred from the initial mention, but there's not much to it in the first place.
It's just a format specification.

Import content? WTF?

This is basically saying, "Oh you know that story site? Yeah, I've never visited that site, I just made it so that everything posted there are downloaded the moment it's posted. Yeah, I don't care that the author feels like nobody reads his stories."

Which story website actually does this?

Not to mention that this sounds like a MAJOR copyright abuse.

 

[Motsu]

Stop crying. Man, just say nay!

FIN

 

[Piisfun]

Import content? WTF?

This is basically saying, "Oh you know that story site? Yeah, I've never visited that site, I just made it so that everything posted there are downloaded the moment it's posted. Yeah, I don't care that the author feels like nobody reads his stories."

Which story website actually does this?

Not to mention that this sounds like a MAJOR copyright abuse.

Well, the name does say "Open Publication"...
Anything copyrighted wouldn't meet that definition.

Therefore it probably wouldn't make sense to include it here, where a significant portion of the series are under copyright.

RSS is different because it merely provides a link to the site, thus it counts toward local traffic (and is already implemented).