8 replies to this topic

[s243a]

Can we get new posts on this site published to an RSS feed? I'm trying out some agregator software, and an RSS feed for this form would likely make me check in more often.

Don't forget to make sure that feed categorizes the topics because there are only certain topics I am interested in.

[shadowx]

There is one for new topics and new posts i think. But IMHO they are useless. They dont update enough and you often find that you click on a topic with 0 posts and it has 25!! (im one of those people that rarely reply if it has a lot of replies already, i cant be bothered to trawl through 25 posts and by the time i do i often find that what i was going to say has already been said.)

Try clicking on the new posts part or something and you'll find it eventually.

Firefox has the best RSS system IMHO with its "live bookmarks" you should try it if you havent already, you can check the feeds without an external program or leaving the page you're currently on. I have it for the BBC news which comes as standard.

[Phoenix.Illusion]

Quote

There is one for new topics and new posts i think. But IMHO they are useless. They dont update enough and you often find that you click on a topic with 0 posts and it has 25!! (im one of those people that rarely reply if it has a lot of replies already, i cant be bothered to trawl through 25 posts and by the time i do i often find that what i was going to say has already been said.)

Try clicking on the new posts part or something and you'll find it eventually.

Firefox has the best RSS system IMHO with its "live bookmarks" you should try it if you havent already, you can check the feeds without an external program or leaving the page you're currently on. I have it for the BBC news which comes as standard.

Yes I use firefox live bookmarks. But somehow im not always the first to reply.
Never the less it works!

Dark Archer

[shadowx]

I think its just a case of the feeds not being live but instead having a refresh time of about an hour or so. Its rather annoying to find out someone already posted what you were gonna say so i dont bother with em anymore. But some people might find them useful.

[Phoenix.Illusion]

Yeh sometimes I use them but thats a diffrent thing.
I reply never the less,

[s243a]

shadowx, on Jul 24 2009, 05:35 AM, said:

Firefox has the best RSS system IMHO with its "live bookmarks" you should try it if you havent already, you can check the feeds without an external program or leaving the page you're currently on. I have it for the BBC news which comes as standard.

I'm not sure how firefox's live bookmarks work but I recomend sage. It is a firefox plugin and will display rss feeds much better then firefox does without it. You can also view all your feed chanels in the left hand pane so you can quickly flip though them.

You can use Yahoo pipes to combine several feeds into a single chanle. For instince in the following link I combined several sources of information to make an earth, enviornemnt and energy channel:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id...43hG2bXqgiJCvVg

Yahoo pipes can do more advanced stuff like build pipes to parse pages into feeds but it is tricky. In the following links I try to parse a page to figure out the new posts. I'm kind of stuck:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id...dbc9191f5cddc86
http://www.physicsfo...ad.php?t=326745
http://www.physicsfo...ad.php?t=326650

This guy had better luck and he was able to turn facebook groups into an rss feed:

http://pipes.yahoo.c...r/facebookgroup

Anyway, I've noticed they don't seem to be perfect but if you are a member of several groups it is better to get some information about new posts then no information. You can also check the group from time to time to see what you missed. As for aggregation software, I recommend sage, although in my research about agreggators I thought mindity would be the best. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get mindity to work. I'm not sure if my computer is too old or there server is down. Maybe the guy who ran it died or something.

[s243a]

I found it. The following tip was very helpful:

"usally can tell if a RSS is running if you see a RSS Icon in url box in your browser."
http://www.trap17.co...ite-t50694.html

I don't know if this works though. The feed I get by doing this may only be trap17 announcements.

Edited by s243a, 24 July 2009 - 05:41 PM.

[s243a]

I don't think the RSS feed is configured right. On whatever forum I click on when I click on the rss icon in the url all I get is trap17 announcements. The browser I'm using is firefox.

[s243a]

Until, Trap17 gets an RSS feed for trap17 I created one using Yahoo Pipes:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id...26ae5867aebc47e

It still needs some work (I need to add a date). Do do this I'll have to do some more advanced stuff like I did here:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id..._3hGcbNSfqevxTA