About
The Tarutaru Times Online is a blog indexing web application.
The idea originated from animenano, for anime blogs.

I wanted something similar for the FFXI blogging community and thus I coded this site.

It automatically indexes blogs by their RSS feeds. And generates a collection of the most recent blog entries. As a registered user, you can customize this list by subscribing to blogs that you like.

I'll be adding more features slowly over time!

While I try my best to keep everything running smoothly, there will be some problems that I am unable to overcome.

However, I intend to keep this site free for everyone and also advertisment free. I'm too lazy to set up a donation scheme to fund a real server anyway. :p

My Goals
With this project, I hope to encourage FFXI bloggers to write posts in a way that players would enjoy reading and also enhance their FFXI experience.

To do this, I will think and implement little features. For example, the number of clicks an entry receives.

Everyone can still blog about anything they like (preferably FFXI-related). Informative posts, funny things, new items they acquired or big kills.

Requirements
Currently, only blogger accounts can add their blog(up to 3) into TTTO for indexing. To upgrade your account to a blogger account, you will need to get a registration key through the following ways:

1) Email me, admin at tarutarutimes-online dot net, with the address of your blog. I check my email often and I'll be happy to generate a key for you.

2) If you have a friend who already has a blogger account, they can generate a registration key for you instantly.

TTTO uses MagpieRSS to parse your RSS feeds so to add your blog's RSS feed to our system, it must be RSS 0.9 - RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 compatible.

Currently, BlogSpot, LiveJournal, WordPress supports RSS and are compatible.

Rules
Blogs must be related to FFXI. If you want to blog about other things, I would appreciate if you could customize your RSS feed to return only FFXI-related entries. Or, you can categorize your entries and I'll filter out non-FFXI related entries on my side. :)

Technical Info
Every 60 minutes(default but configurable), TTTO will access your RSS feed for new entries and save your entry title, date, summary to our database, with images and hyperlinks stripped.

When TTTO detects a new entry from your blog and has added it into our database, it will show up on the home page so visitors will be notified of a new entry in your blog.

They can view the summary and access your entry to view the full post with images and hyperlinks.

If you have any comments/suggestions on improving this site, feel free to email me at admin at tarutarutimes-online dot net.

Features

For blog readers:

1. Track all your favourite blogs from 1 place instead of visiting them all to see if they have written anything new.
2. Discover other FFXI blogs and bloggers on your server!

For bloggers:

1. Your blog will be more easily known to others and thus increase traffic to your blog!
2. Supports blogs written in many languages. Or at least Japanese! (I did a simple test with a Japanese blog)

Account Differences

Unregistered:

1. View only the last 10 entries in the blog or blogger's info page.
2. Cannot subscribe to blogs.
3. Cannot use the search function.
4. Cannot add blog.
5. Cannot invite other bloggers.
6. Cannot bookmark entries

Normal:

1. View all entries in the blog or blogger's info page.
2. Subscribe to your favourite blogs and view a list of recent entries only from your favourites.
3. Search feature available.
4. Cannot add blog.
5. Cannot invite other bloggers.
6. Can bookmark entries

Blogger:

1. View all entries in the blog or blogger's info page.
2. Subscribe to your favourite blogs and view a list of recent entries only from your favourites.
3. Search feature available.
4. Add up to 3 blogs for indexing.
5. Invite other bloggers.
6. Can bookmark entries

The Tarutaru Times Online (TTTO) is created by Erik Yang. All blog content belongs to their respective owners.
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