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  • August 23, 2005 at 3:36 pm #12072
    Bass
    Participant

    Hi,

    Just a quick question.  Is it possible to enable RSS feeds for several of the higher traffic forums here?

    Thanks

    August 23, 2005 at 6:23 pm #12073
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    Hey Bass –

    That's a built-in feature in SMF, so the RSS feeds are being created but I haven't enabled links.  Because I'm running SMF under Mambo there are some complications, because Mambo declares its feed in the header. 

    Let me take a look at it and see what I can do – maybe put a RSS link button somewhere on each board?

    August 23, 2005 at 6:26 pm #12074
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    What do you think – should I use the feed:// or http:// protocol?  A lot of browsers still don't recognize feed://…

    August 23, 2005 at 8:40 pm #12075
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    OK, I put a RSS feed button next to each board header on the main forum index.  That will show up to 25 posts since your last login.  I think.  Play around with it and let me know if it does what you want.

    August 23, 2005 at 8:52 pm #12076
    Bass
    Participant

    Hey Lingster,

    Wow, that was quick  😎 .  My RSS feeder isn't loving the type of link its giving.  I think it needs a direct link to a xml files (I'm no expert on RSS).  I'm using Firefox with Sage right now.  If any other RSS readers can work with it then I'll just change.

    Thanks

    August 23, 2005 at 10:42 pm #12077
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    Hm.  Post a link to a feed it does like, let me check it.

    August 23, 2005 at 10:57 pm #12078
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    OK, it looks like it works in RSS enabled browsers like Safari.  Other applications seemed to be confused by the XML information in the Amaz0ns template header.  So I have to look into that.

    August 24, 2005 at 7:00 am #12079
    TheGov
    Participant

    I don't really know when I became so ignorant, but what is an RSS Feed?  Is it described elsewhere on this site?  If it's about me (as in Really Stupid Sonofa…) don't tell me because I don't want to know.

    August 24, 2005 at 11:00 am #12080
    Bass
    Participant

    Here's a feed it does like: http://leovilletownsquare.com/fusionbb/rss/fid15.xml

    It also likes the feed for your blog on the main page.  I think its only going to work if given a direct link to the xml file.  Thanks for the effort you're putting in, I really appreciate it.

    @ TheGov

    RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.  Basically if someone has a blog you like going to, or in this case forum, and if they provide a RSS feed, you can subscribe to it and everytime its updated your browser or RSS reader of choice will alert you and give you a preview of the post made.  Hope that helps.    Wikipedia has a good page on it LINK

    August 24, 2005 at 4:12 pm #12081
    leaf
    Participant

    Glad you added the RSS feeds…but wow, that is a bright and shiny link button. I like the subdued colors + layout of the site, and the largish orange buttons are a bit out of place. But maybe you're just making them so prominent until everyone sees that RSS is available now.

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