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Post by sroessler on Oct 2, 2007 18:48:12 GMT -5
I'm a fan.
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Post by The Hockey Hitman on Oct 2, 2007 18:54:04 GMT -5
Not sure. Let me look into it.
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Post by rfar9 on Oct 2, 2007 19:38:36 GMT -5
What are RSS feeds?
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Post by The Hockey Hitman on Oct 2, 2007 19:47:07 GMT -5
a quick blackle search(thats right, blackle) helped me find this: RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way. RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them. __________________________________________________________________ And I'm still looking into the answer for him...
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Post by rfar9 on Oct 2, 2007 19:49:20 GMT -5
Cool
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Post by The Hockey Hitman on Oct 2, 2007 19:55:41 GMT -5
answer:
A RSS feed would need to be something provided server-side by proboards and as such cannot be done client-side. At present, there are no plans to introduce it.
Furthermore, Just to add, there is another option that's actually built in: bookmarks. A person can hit the "bookmark" tab in the upper left hand corner of a thread, and they will recieve a PM or an email when the topic is updated, depending on what they set in their bookmark preferences (accessed in their profile).
hope that makes sense and helps.
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Post by Zoom Waffles on Oct 2, 2007 21:20:05 GMT -5
my mind is blown.
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Post by Wolfpack on Oct 4, 2007 19:15:27 GMT -5
In layman's terms, an RSS feed allows the news to come to you instead of you having to go to all the different sites looking for it. I use iGoogle and get feeds from a number of different sites. When I log on in the morning I can simply scan all my feeds for items that interest me and then click on them to read the whole story. Its pretty cool.
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