RSS Feed

[karl_seeger]

Do we have a RSS feed for this board?

 

[Steve Adams]

It's turned off by default and I'm pretty sure I never enabled it when I was admin. It's a pretty simple thing to set up if there's interest.

 

[karl_seeger]

Here is one vote!

 

[westipton]

Uh, what is an RSS feed Karl?

 

[Alberto Fonseca]

I just turned it on in case others find it useful as well. I think e-mail subscription is probably more commonly used on forums and RSS has been on the decline in general but as Steve mentioned it's easily switched on/off.

RSS feeds are published summaries of content on websites that can be subscribed to and delivered to create a sort of custom newspaper. That's my simply worded description in any case, this is what RSS really is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

 

[Richard Broadhead]

Uh, what is an RSS feed Karl?

I'm glad you asked Wes because I too was wondering too. But, I didn't ask because I didn't want to seem as dumb as I am. Computers move on and my information base is still back in 1999.

 

[karl_seeger]

I have a "page" with all of the "feeds" that interest me, this was the only one missing! Being basically lazy I can review sites quickly and drill down if the topic interest's me. The feed for this board is http://www.icscc.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=9

 

[karl_seeger]

Alberto,

I have the link but it seems to not update with new posts like all other RSS feeds I watch.....it still reflects what was originally here when you first enabled it.

 

[Alberto Fonseca]

It looks like by default it just displays new threads not new posts. It looks like you can modify the URL to pick up new posts by adding &lastpost=1 like this:

http://www.icscc.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=9&lastpost=1

I didn't see an easy way to change this behavior in the forum system so you'll have to do this manually.

 

[karl_seeger]

That fixed it, I'll let you know if it acts "weird" again, Thanks!