RSS feeds on a forum

MORPH3US

Just discovered the delights of using RSS feeds in Firefox (by putting them on the toolbar I can see the latest headlines on the BBC site without having to go to the BBC site) which got me wondering, is it possible to have RSS feeds for a forum such as MSE?

It would be great to be able to click the MSE button on the tool bar and see the last 20 post titles!

M

wolfman

MSE already has RSS feeds. There not directly noticeable though. There's a post somewhere for linking to them, I'm sure someone here will know it.

And yes it's not too hard to setup RSS feeds for forums. In slightly technical talk, upon the user requesting the feed, the server usually goes off and pulls all the necessary data from the database, then flushes it out as xml to the user.

Toxteth_OGrady

Maybe they could do something like this. :rolleyes:

:rotfl:

:cool:

TOG

sloughflint

How do you do it though? When I right click and paste link from the link in the last post , I get gobbledigook.I tried firefox. Can it be done in Opera? If so how?

sra

sloughflint wrote:

How do you do it though? When I right click and paste link from the link in the last post , I get gobbledigook.I tried firefox. Can it be done in Opera? If so how?

In Firefox

Copy the link

bookmarks / Manage Bookmarks

then File / New Live Bookmark

Toxteth_OGrady

Opera FAQ on RSS here.

:cool:

TOG

sra

The new forum has auto-discovery on every page, but it all links to the main feed. vBulletin still refuses to put up and autodiscover that links to the feed for the board you're viewing

Don't ask me why they don't

sloughflint

This isjust getting me down. I feel thick! I think I had better learn how to use basic firefox before venturing further. Thanks for trying to help me.
I couldn't even find:

bookmarks / Manage Bookmarks

then File / New Live Bookmark ( just found it. Shall keep trying!!!!)

sra

sloughflint wrote:

This isjust getting me down. I feel thick! I think I had better learn how to use basic firefox before venturing further. Thanks for trying to help me.
I couldn't even find:

bookmarks / Manage Bookmarks

then File / New Live Bookmark

sorry was in a bit of a rush
It's laid out badly anyway

From the Bookmarks Menu, select Manage Bookmarks

A new window will appear. Now from the File menu select New Live Bookmark and then paste the feed's url into the Feed Locations area

MORPH3US

sloughflint wrote:

This isjust getting me down. I feel thick! I think I had better learn how to use basic firefox before venturing further. Thanks for trying to help me.
I couldn't even find:

bookmarks / Manage Bookmarks

then File / New Live Bookmark ( just found it. Shall keep trying!!!!)

sloughflint, don't give up. I've just done it from the instructions above and its easy.

Copy this text (for quick grabbit):

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/external.html?type=rss2&forumids=36

Then do what SRA says.

Paste the link in like SRA says and then give it a name (MSE Grabbit for me) and then if you move the new bookmark into the "Bookmarks Toolbar folder" then it'll be a button on your tool bar. Click it and it'll give you the latest posts in that forum!!!

M

iwanttosave_2

sorry for being dense, I have never known and felt stupid for asking but what is a RSS feed?