I’m working on a FAQ for Poblish-newcomers. It lives on the new poblish-support Google Group that doubles as a help site and forum for Poblish-related discussion.

Every Actor, Blog/Feed, and Group page at Poblish now offers an RSS 2.0 feed.

Unlike other blog platforms, Poblish’s feeds are configurable and ‘historic’: rather than just display a user’s last 10 or 15 articles, our feeds give you everything.

We’ve always made these configurable feeds available to developers in JSON format, but hopefully the RSS feeds will be more accessible to bloggers.

Incidentally, Poblish provides a ‘permaLink’ for each article in the feed. Essentially we’re saying that the article in question will always exist at that particular URL on our system, even if the originating blog disappears.

Both Group, and Blog/Feed pages have been enhanced to display their most recent activity.

So, for blogs and feeds: the most recent posts from a blog or feed; for groups – much more fun – a real-time aggregated feed from all the members of that group. Here’s an example for the UK Labour Party’s group.

You can also see that joining or leaving an open group – or applying to join a restricted group – is simply a matter of a single click.

If you connect to poblish via Facebook, you’ll find a new option on your Home page. The “My Facebook Friends on Poblish” page gives you a list of all your Facebook friends who also use Poblish.

That’s handy because you might want to follow them and their activity in your daily digest email.

Apologies for the lack of recent updates.

A lot of work has recently gone into improving the performance and stability of Poblish, and that’s now bearing fruit.

Amongst other recent improvements, we now handle ‘group’ / multi-author blogs and feeds much better. For starters, we no longer pretend that an article originating from a group blog was the responsibility of any particular actor unless we know otherwise. Now, such posts appear with the name of the group blog (in bold), rather than the name of one or other of its members.

As a bonus, you can now follow these group blogs / feeds in their own right – a handy alternative to following individuals or groups for Daily Digest users.

Finally, Global Search (the text field in the top-right of the page) now lets you search blogs and feeds – not just by URL but by name. Try searching for ‘Harry’ to see what happens.