RSS Feeds

Former_MSE_Webmaster

Hi folks,

In case some of you are wondering where the RSS feed has gone, we've had to switch it off as it was causing the Chat Forums to slow down and crash. pparently this is a known problem in our version of vBulletin and we're looking at ways to sort it out (the simplest of which is upgrading which we'll undertake as soon as possible anyway).

I'll let you know when I know more.


Webby

mike_paterson

That is a shame - Hope you get it back soon it is very useful.
Cheers
Mike

honey

Thanks for letting us know.

Hope you are able to get it sorted - I miss it already

SimplyAUser

Oh Dear :eek: ..

redeye_3

You mean we actually have to visit the site now?

Damn, that's so 1990s.... :-)

freestyle_3

It seems to me that we should consider looking at other bullitin board software.

I'm sure that when Martin decided to set it up, he had no idea on how popular it would become.

I've found the rss feeds really great for picking up the quick bargain. Can anyone recomend another way of having a check performed ? I can't sit pressing F5 all day !

southernscouser

What are RRS Feeds?

Large_Charge

southernscouser wrote:

What are RRS Feeds?

Here is a link that gives a basic explanation in one page.

It also has many other links that should explain everything you need know:

What is RSS?

Hope this helps.

sra

Here's the mse feed for the martin's blog - which still works because it is not part of the forum.

If you can read past the code you'll see that it gives a summary of each posting of blog.

The idea is that you can put the feed's address into a Reader and then you can quickly see what's happening on your favourite sites.

MSE_Martin

Hi

Actually Vbulletin was selected exactly for its ability to cope with scale. And it has been a massive massive improvement on the previous software we had. Changing to a different software would be huge and unnecessary hassle. This is a bug in the version we're using, Vbull should be able to handle RSS feeds with ease

The aim is to upgrade the software - which should be a smooth process and then get RSS feeds back - there's a few other things higher on the priorities first though

cymro1170

sra wrote:

Here's the mse feed for the martin's blog - which still works because it is not part of the forum.

If you can read past the code you'll see that it gives a summary of each posting of blog.

The idea is that you can put the feed's address into a Reader and then you can quickly see what's happening on your favourite sites.

Thanks to your post, I have now installed Firefox and Sage...
I have to say I'm quite impressed - thanks!