Roguebase

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Roguebase
Type Website
URL http://www.roguebase.net/
Registration 17. Feb, 2012
Language English
Author gnsh

Overview

Roguebase is a website that aggregates new posts from various roguelike feeds. New posts are then listed on the Roguebase frontpage in chronological order, with links to the original posts. As of the 24th of May 2012 Roguebase follows 27 different feeds.

Source code

Roguebase source code is valid XHTML 1.1/CSS 3. Roguebase uses gzip compression and the source code is minified (no line-breaks and no excessive whitespace).

Bots

The bot that updates the news uses SimplePie PHP-class. It runs under Debian GNU/Linux. When the bot finds new posts, it writes them to a text-file, from where the website fetches the news. RSS and Atom feeds are generated using PHP, XMLWriter extension.