rss feeds - do you subscribe?

Clancy · #1 August 27th, 2007

Yesterday I put an icon with the direct link to each forums rss feed. It's up the top near the "New Thread" button on each forum's page.

Is this worth keeping? Do you use a feed reader or do you not know what on earth I'm talking about?

This is what the icon looks like

IE 7 has a built in feed reader. I use sage for Firefox.

Thanks for any feedback.

Clancy

Hilch · #2 August 27th, 2007

do you not know what on earth I'm talking about

Thats me ....

No idea at all Ms Clancy , would this not create alot more work for you ?

But then again like I said , " do you not know what on earth I'm talking about "

I have a old saying that I use alot , " If it aint broke don't try to fix it "
Thats my opinion
But everyone knows me

Trev....

justinthyme · #3 August 27th, 2007

Clancy - I just had a go at this in IE6 - what I got when I clicked on the orange icon was a view of the webpage source code. What is supposed to happen?

I also have no idea what an rss feed is, btw - been meaning to find out.

Cheers.

scorpius · #4 August 27th, 2007

Hi Clancy, that would be a good addition. I usually subscribe to news. Now I can add the GFB&B forum. Thanks for that.

Hi, justinthyme, if you are using IE6, you will be needing a separate rss feed reader (many freewares available) but if you use firefox there is a default rss reader and you can just to the bookmarks toolbar folder.

justinthyme · #5 August 27th, 2007

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Originally Posted by scorpius

Hi Clancy, that would be a good addition. I usually subscribe to news. Now I can add the GFB&B forum. Thanks for that.

Hi, justinthyme, if you are using IE6, you will be needing a separate rss feed reader (many freewares available) but if you use firefox there is a default rss reader and you can just to the bookmarks toolbar folder.

Ah yes - just re-read Clancy's post re IE7. I usually use Firefox, so I'll have another look. Thanks.

mattz196 · #6 August 27th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Clancy

Is this worth keeping? Do you use a feed reader or do you not know what on earth I'm talking about?

One new member for that club here .
Perhaps someone could enlighten me .

scorpius · #7 August 27th, 2007

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Originally Posted by mattz196

One new member for that club here .
Perhaps someone could enlighten me .

Hi, I'm not very good in explaining things.

But I'm sure this would do it.
RSS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mattz196 · #8 August 27th, 2007

Thanks Scorpius
""RSS (which, in its most recent format, stands for "Really Simple Syndication")" Well the simple bit sounds good , so you get notified when a thread to which you are subscribed has a post made in it .Seems like a good idea.

Clancy · #9 August 27th, 2007

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Originally Posted by mattz196

Thanks Scorpius
""RSS (which, in its most recent format, stands for "Really Simple Syndication")" Well the simple bit sounds good , so you get notified when a thread to which you are subscribed has a post made in it .Seems like a good idea.

No it doesn't quite work like that Matt. It shows you the last threads posted in a particular forum. For example if you subscribed to the "Playing the guitar" forum, your feedreader would show the latest threads posted in that forum... I don't use a feed reader... but I know some people swear by them.

To get notifications of the new posts made in a thread, the best way is just to subscribe to the email notification system here on the forum.

Cheers

Clancy

mattz196 · #10 August 27th, 2007

Thanks Clancy , Doesn't sound that great the way you describe it, think I'll stick with the "active threads" feature which I think is fantastic, but then I'm probably a luddite.

justinthyme · #11 August 27th, 2007

I'm with you mattz - doesn't hold too much appeal here.

Rockerbob · #12 August 28th, 2007

Nope! The RSS company didn't give me a job so I quit playing with it.

X4StringDrive · #13 August 28th, 2007

Answers to the OP{in order}
up to you, no, yes

Clancy · #14 August 28th, 2007

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Originally Posted by mattz196

Thanks Clancy , Doesn't sound that great the way you describe it, think I'll stick with the "active threads" feature which I think is fantastic, but then I'm probably a luddite.

I guess (for example) it could work well if you were a member of many forums - it would an easy way of checking new threads without having to visit each site separately. But of course you guys are only members of GFB&B, so what use would it be to you?

Clancy

justinthyme · #15 August 28th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Clancy

But of course you guys are only members of GFB&B, so what use would it be to you?

Clancy

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