Comments on: SimplePie Almost Dies

By: Herbert Malzahn

Herbert Malzahn — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:29:37 +0000

I think most of users of SP haven`t any problem to pay a few Bucks for the Developer. So he can enjoy as the users too.

By: Christian Web 2.0

Christian Web 2.0 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:24:50 +0000

Hi Jeffro - Yeah, I use Simplepie, and have found it to be a fantastic bit of software that has really helped me learn a bit about PHP. I was worried when Geoffrey said he was stepping down as well, but it seems like Ryan is the glue that has held everything together for quite a while - at least he’s the public face of the plugin. I’ve used Simplepie on a popurls clone called Faith2.com, and am integrating it into other sites as well. Here’s hoping it makes version 2!

By: Andreas Gohr

Andreas Gohr — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:57:20 +0000

I use and love the SimplePie library. I use it in the DokuWiki engine. What I fear most is that instead of dieing SimplePie will drown in unnecessary features. All I expect from it is to be the best feed parsing library - everything else is superfluous to me. I’m not sure what I should think about a “MySQL-capable branch”.

By: jimw

jimw — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:34:04 +0000

I just started using SimplePie on a new site I built for SustainableDelco. It was the easiest way for me to add some feeds to the web site. I'm happy to see that it still has a life.

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:23:09 +0000

Ok guess I should explain myself here. I used this title for this post because as I understood it, SimplePie was being worked on by two active developers. One of those developers has decided to step down from playing a major role in the development. However, the other major developer has decided to look towards the community to save the project. So in essence, SimplePie almost died

By: Ryan Parman

Ryan Parman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:40:36 +0000

Yeah, I really can’t overstate how inaccurate this post title is. Geoffrey and I have different roles in the project — both of which are critical to it’s continued success. Geoffrey has some large shoes to fill, but as I stated earlier, we’re going to be working with the community to find a new lead developer.

By: Binh Nguyen

Binh Nguyen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:35:46 +0000

SimplePie? I never heard or used it. Does it worth a try?

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:38:10 +0000

Hey Rob, are you sure your not confusing SimplePie with SimplLife? http://kierandelaney.net/blog/projects/simplelife/

By: Erik Pöhler

Erik Pöhler — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:54:33 +0000

I recently started coding a WordPress-Plugin that heavily uses SimplePie, which i chose over the integrated MagPie as it brings broader support for different formats, eg: rdf as delicious provides. It’s definetely a great tool!
BTW: you can take a look at the plugin beta here http://code.google.com/p/wp-rss-combiner/

By: bubazoo

bubazoo — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:19:55 +0000

was gonna say, I don’t like it when plugin authors stop developing their plugins. I immediately stop using those plugins, because I don’t like my blog to not be future proof.

I’ve been using the KQF RSS Feed Reader plugin for Wordpress, and I’ve never cared much for it, I don’t like how it modifies my admin dashboard, so I may give SimplePie a try. If it does the same thing, I’ll just use that one instead.

By: Ignacio Tike

Ignacio Tike — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:02:17 +0000

I made a Popurls.com clone using Simplepie as its backend. That script is simply amazing, it’d be very bad such a good product is discontinued.

By: Rob Safuto

Rob Safuto — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:01:51 +0000

I just starting using the SimplePie plugin to power a lifestream on my blog. It works great and when I originally saw that post a few days ago I was worried things wouldn’t progress. I’m glad to hear that Ryan is running with it.

By: Bollywood

Bollywood — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:30:23 +0000

Hmm, sad to hear that. I dont use simplepie.. but as mentioned by Nick, everything has a cycle..

By: Nick Georgakis

Nick Georgakis — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:44:19 +0000

Many projects have passes similar “community crises” in the past and got victoriously through them.
I also have used SimplePie for syndication roles and believe they will find a successful balance after some time…

By: Geoffrey Sneddon

Geoffrey Sneddon — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:27:11 +0000

Couple of minor inaccuracies (or just incorrect implications):
HTML 5 specification and Tolerant HTTP Parsing specification (on a totally unrelated note, why isn’t |ins| allowed in comments?).
Consulting role goes outwith the SP 1.x codebase

Apart from that, I will continue on as an inactive developer (which I really have been for several months already), occasionally making odd commits, which are mainly bugfixes (but don’t be surprised if that goes to the extreme of me writing the core of SP2).

Also of note is the fact that the timeline for anything beyond SP 1.2 was always very vague (though if we take the original timeline literally, SP 1.2 should be out any day: we’re a whole release behind — though a lot of SP 1.2 is already done in a branch).