Does Yotatech allow RSS feeds from the site does anyone know? I would like to feed my buildup thread to my website if possible and link back here of course.

TIA guys, great job here

 

Bump! I am an RSS addict and just enabled it on the WATTORA forum... what about here?

 

I am afraid I do not know what it is.
I have heard of it, but have not looked into what it does.

Explain it a bit, and we can look ask about it.

 

Here's some babble Corey (and Christopher):Basically it's a system where the server would broadcast all new posts into a single feed. Anyone "subscribing" to the feed will see the new post immediately versus having to come to the site and look at posts in "batch mode" via the New Posts button.

 

Here's a thread on the Vbulletin site that talks about the modules that are available for Vbulletin.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134222

Here's a quick and dirty explanation of RSS from "http://www.rssfeeds.com/".

What is RSS?
RSS is a mechanism used to distribute news content without depending on the browser or email client. Not everyone agrees precisely what RSS stands for, but “Really Simple Syndication” is a popular choice.

What are the advantages of RSS?

In general it means time savings because, thanks to RSS, you stay ahead of what’s new without having to browse every site you normaly visit. An RSS reader aggregates the content for you to view in one place, this saves time and brings you the content like when you're reading a newspaper with the advantage to view only headlines. You're in control of which articles you want to read.

RSS enabled sites

The following type of sites are typically now RSS-enabled;

- News services
- Databases
- many web logs (commonly called "blogs")

 

Here's what the feed for CNN looks like.

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss

Now imagine that being collected with other feeds in a reader on your desktop. You can then click on the "headlines" that strike your fancy and read those threads/posts.

 

how do i view it, when i open that link in either firefox or IE i just see the xml code.

 

You need a reader or a browser that has a reader built into it. IE7 works and I imagine there is some sort of plugin for Firefox, but I don't use it, so I can't say for sure.

Otherwise, http://www.feedreader.com/ is a lightweight, free reader that works really well. But watch it, having all your news and forums in one place is addictive.

 

i could imagine.. as is i check so many forums it woud be nice to have them all in one place

 

Yeah, it looks like gibberish here
http://www.pnw4runners.com/temp/rss.jpg

I will have to get a reader and try it later to see how it looks.

I will look at the VB info too Rob.

 

Plugin? Peh! Firefox knows what to do on it's own!





That ain't gibberish Corey, that's a might purty RSS feed!

 

Firefox supports it , no need for extra plugins. It works quite slick.

 

You are seeing the raw XML. In IE7, with the built in reader, that same feed looks like this; http://www.watrd.com/work/cnnfeedie.jpg

And in the FeedReader stand alone reader, it looks like this; http://www.watrd.com/work/feedreader.jpg

 

what do you mean by firefox knows what to do on its own, i am using firefox and all i see it the code..

 

Could be, I don't use it. As you know, I had quite a string of crashes with it and I got tired of it blowing up all the time. I love my IE 7. It also knows what to do on it's own and includes everything that everyone told me I would love about Firefox, with none of the crashes.

 

With FF, you need to use that URL to add a "live bookmark". Backup a level from the URL that Rob posted:

http://rss.cnn.com/services/rss/

Then note that in the URL address field, there's an orange box with white lines in it. Click that and you get a drop list of "add" options.

The link that Rob posted is the first feed in that list, "Top Stories".

 

Sorry, you're right. I have had the RSS buttom show up on some websites next to the URL in the bar on top. I am not sure what happened here, maybe an earlier version of RSS?

But a quick search for rss extensions gave me this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/quicksear...cation=firefox

Don't know what happened, but I remember having a rss button show every so often. I'll keep an eye out.

 

Thanks Mark,

that's right, it is just that the icon changes with different themes. I was using the Noia extreme 2.0 theme and then the icon changes in some sort of a medal.
I remember reading about the rss button being moved up to the adress bar when I installed version FF 1.5. I temporarely changed back to the original theme and the orange symbol is back.

 

Yeups!


One thing to do here before this turns into a FF vs IE7 war is to point out the differences between FF's and IE's internal support for RSS.

FF is based around a simple list of bookmarks which you can plop onto the Bookmarks toolbar. When you click it, you a list of the latest from the feed, you can click on one and get taken to the related page, or click the option to open them all in tabs. This bookmark list is automagically updated on a timed interval. FF calls this a "live bookmark". The result is this:If you want a full blown reader, then the link that Arjan posted has a number of them. Personally, I like just seeing the headlines and not having the full story in front of me.

 

I'd love to have an RSS feed to this site. I could add it to my Google Homepage: