RSS feeders

[drakethib]

Can some explain to me what a RSS feeder is and why is it the new craze?

Thanks

 

[bicker]

You mean "RSS Reader"?

An RSS Reader is a tool for downloading content (typically news or discussions) from a website into a reader especially designed for reading, instead of relying on whatever controls a web designer was able to put into your web browser. Since the software is specifically written for reading news and discussions, it is a far superior experience to anything that can be achieved with a web browser.

Unfortunately, as far as I know, no RSS readers allow you to post, as yet. However, I'm not sure.

Incidently, as far as I know, The DIS does not support RSS, but vBulletin, the server software The DIS uses, does support it.

 

[edcrbnsoul]

Where can I find the RSS feed.

The administrator may have enabled RSS syndication, this allows you to view newly created threads in guest viewable forums without visiting the board.

The feeds are currently provided in two formats, RSS and RSS v2. The differences are as follows:

RSS 0.91 - This feed is based on a standard written by netscape and provides a link and the title of the thread.
http://www.disboards.com/external.php?type=rss
RSS 2.0 - This feed contains title, author, date and the contents of the first post of the thread.
http://www.disboards.com/external.php?type=rss2
To add this to MyYahoo click here.

The forums to which this applies can also be limited to specific guest viewable forums by adding another paramater to the URL containing the forumids as follows:
http://www.disboards.com/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=123

If you would like the content to be generated for multiple forums you can seperate the forumids by commas.

 

[bicker]

Wow! That's great to know. Thanks!

 

[Galahad]

OK - dumb question since I've only done this a couple of times. How do I add that feed to my feedreader?

 

[Galahad]

Nevermind - figured it out - don't paste the code - paste the link -