When will RSS (Really simply syndication) be available ?

freestyle_3

I posted a question (what feels like a year ago) asking about when RSS would be introduced.

A forum this active really needs it. Even found the option in the manual

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/vboptions_group_external

please, please please !

pavlovs_dog

*scratches head and wanders back out of thread*

sra

The RSS feeds are listed here.

You can get to that page from the Unofficial a-z listed on the blue bar at the top of this page

sra

pavlovs_dog wrote:

*scratches head and wanders back out of thread*

lol

If a site provides RSS then you can see the latest stories/topics without visiting it.

When IE7 comes out just about everyone will start to use it. But for now it's really only for us who use other browsers or have a newsreader program.

Some websites let you view RSS feeds without a reader -
Yahoo have been allowing RSS feeds on their MyYahoo pages for a while and Google have started building personalized pages that can use RSS (www.google.co.uk/ig).

e.g. Here I've told my page where the Old Style feed is and it shows me new Old Style threads when I go to www.google.co.uk/ig

pavlovs_dog

oh wow!

thats really clever! (is it sad that im impressed by that?! )

will it work for everyone, or do i need certain specs on my pc/isp/browser thingy?

pavlovs_dog

and whats the .ig stand for?

sra

pavlovs_dog wrote:

and whats the .ig stand for?

No idea

It's still beta (test) so google will probably rename it when it's fully ready.

1. Get yourself a google account if you haven't already
2. Go to post #2 here and click on the board you want to add. You'll see a funny looking 'XML' page. Copy it's url.
3. Then you can go back to www.google.co.uk/ig and click Personalize your google homepage then Create a section.You'll be given a box 'Search by topic or feed URL:' where you can paste the address from stage 2

If any other pages you like have an RSS or XML icon you can add them to your personalized page. e.g. you can go to http://news.bbc.co.uk and click the on the left and copy the page's url

Once you've added stuff to google.ig, you can drag things about on the page to put them where you want.


If you want to get a newsreader program, there are plenty out there e.g http://www.pluck.com/ which adds a sidebar to IE. But newseaders aren't as user friendly as they could be.

Hopefully IE7 will make it so easy to add feeds that everyone will be using them soon.

pin

We use IE at work, so can't use RSS on the browser. However I've been using Bloglines for a little while to pick up RSS feeds, it is very good.

https://www.bloglines.com