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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by quantumfluff: [QB] Snaggy: A technical question. Is RSS an off-the-shelf feature of UBB, or do you have to do some extra magic? I noticed that you only do the 15 newest posts, could it be configured for other things? I ask this not as a request for features in GC, but because we are looking into forum systems to replace email for most dicussion within out company. I believe that RSS will be the enabler which lets individuals build custom views of the activity they need. I'm looking for real world examples. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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Snaggy Member # 123	posted December 28, 2002 14:20 I just added Freshest Fifteen Topics, to the main Forum page, and as a bonus this is also available via RSS. To use the RSS 0.92 format, you must point an RSS agent at the following URL: http://www.geekculture.com/ultimatebb/ContentIslands/2/rss092.xml To use the RSS 1.0 format, you must point an RSS agent at the following URL: http://www.geekculture.com/ultimatebb/ContentIslands/2/rss10.xml edit... it's now the Freshest 15 posts RSS.. To use the RSS 0.92 format, you must point an RSS agent at the following URL: http://www.geekculture.com/ultimatebb/ContentIslands/1/rss092.xml To use the RSS 1.0 format, you must point an RSS agent at the following URL: http://www.geekculture.com/ultimatebb/ContentIslands/1/rss10.xml ----------------- And bonus, if you are a fan of Slashdot, you may be happy to learn that our Forum feed is now available in a Slashbox. Just check your Slashdot account preferences, Customize Slashboxes, and check the Geek Culture slashbox. It looks like this. Also NEW: Our Joy of Tech RSS feed: http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/jotblog/index.xml
dragonman97 Member # 780	posted December 28, 2002 14:54 Also of interest to some: Freshest Ten Posts (with URL this time).
ilovemydualg4 Member # 1234	posted December 28, 2002 17:16 maybe i'll put them on my flashcards site, under 'procrastinations' :-D
ilovemydualg4 Member # 1234	posted December 28, 2002 19:37 here we are http://stonewallcs.com:83/flashcards/content/procrastinations
Rednivek Member # 1148	posted December 28, 2002 22:38 Using Mac OS X? Check this out.... a little dock guy that will alert you to fresh stuff on GC (or other RSS sites such as Slashnet, NASA, National Enquirer, USA Today, etc etc).... http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/slashdock.html This is REALLY cool!
DigitalBill Member # 646	posted December 29, 2002 20:42 Totally awesome, Snaggy! RSS ROCKS! Red, check out the app NetNewswire for RSS feeds under OS X... http://ranchero.com/software/netnewswire/ It brings a Outlook-style 3-pane interface for reading the aggregated feeds, and still lists them in the dock like SlashDock... it has tons of presets... I use NetNewsWire to watch/read all the Mac news sites, my favorite weblogs (Wil, Megan, Morgan, Leo, Andy I...), my MovableType server supports it, and it works great with Snaggy's new RSS feed too! =DB RSS is the BESST!
rw Member # 590	posted December 30, 2002 06:42 Cool. I just added you to my subscriptions. (And I'll add another plug for NetNewsWire )
quantumfluff Member # 450	posted July 27, 2004 20:05 Snaggy: A technical question. Is RSS an off-the-shelf feature of UBB, or do you have to do some extra magic? I noticed that you only do the 15 newest posts, could it be configured for other things? I ask this not as a request for features in GC, but because we are looking into forum systems to replace email for most dicussion within out company. I believe that RSS will be the enabler which lets individuals build custom views of the activity they need. I'm looking for real world examples.
Snaggy Member # 123	posted July 27, 2004 22:31 It's a feature of the UBB classic, InfoPop calls them "content islands". You can create the following: New topics in one or all forums, New posts in one or all forums, Recent visitors for the board or one forum, Latest registered and approved members. uses RSS and/or javascript Ok hope that helps
Mike M Member # 3100	posted November 23, 2004 20:35 For all of you firefox users... if you're not aware of it, Firefox now has built-in RSS support. If you want to subscribe to the RSS feed, just go to Bookmarks \| Manage Your Bookmarks and then go to File \| New Live Bookmark and put in one of the 1.0 RSS feeds. Firefox will represent the bookmark as a folder, with each entry appearing as a bookmark.
JulioC Member # 4370	posted September 11, 2005 12:35 Im new here,.. BTW Opera also has RSS support. TX for the feed
dragonman97 Member # 780	posted September 11, 2005 16:41 Personally, I am completely underimpressed by Firefox's "Live Bookmarks" - I never really understood what the whole RSS craze was about until I decided to try a competent reader. I first used Habari Xenu, and the moved to Sage. Sage makes RSS reading work very well for me.
littlefish Member # 966	posted September 12, 2005 00:27 Fuzzed out the porn feeds have you DMan?
GameMaster Member # 1173	posted September 12, 2005 02:07 That was my first thought, too, little fish. I have a few RSS feeds on my site, including one from here. I really like FF's live bookmarks -- espcially the "open in tabs" feature.
FireSnake Member # 1181	posted September 16, 2005 18:04 I just added the RSS feed to my Google home page.
dragonman97 Member # 780	posted September 16, 2005 21:29 quote: Originally posted by littlefish: Fuzzed out the porn feeds have you DMan? Ha! I never even thought about that - no...some friends' blogs that I keep my eye on every now and again. It's funny that you mention that, however - what do you want to bet that RSS feeds will really take off if/when some porn sites start using it to syndicate content somehow?
fs Member # 1181	posted January 29, 2007 03:46 I'm looking at the date on that first post and remembering that I was all like "yes!" when it was new... I've been here a long time.
uilleann Member # 1297	posted January 29, 2007 05:49 I'm looking at dragonman's screenshot and thinking ... OK ... right ... but how does that differ exactly from just opening the ContentIslands/1/html.html page in its own tab, and then use Stylish (Firefox user styling extension) to make it prettier? OK, there is one obvious difference: Stylish won't let me use :before or :after to include image URLs from my local hard drive. Otherwise, I've never used RSS and I don't suppose I ever will.
dragonman97 Member # 780	posted January 29, 2007 07:34 ...and that's an old screenshot. I don't use Sage anymore...I use Google Reader & Firefox 2's built-in RSS parser (neé FeedView). It's nothing fantastic, but it serves my needs just fine.
uilleann Member # 1297	posted January 29, 2007 13:33 I still don't get what's different to just using this? http://www.geekculture.com/ultimatebb/ContentIslands/1/html.html I leave Firefox running, so that page just sits as my first tab at all times, and another certain ahem ;) forum sits in tab number two.

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