RSS & Syndication

[Martin Blank]

Demand is present for a lot of things. The amount of the demand is in question, I think. And even significant demand does not make for a valuable addition. That was my point.

[vph]

If not demand, then what would be the driving force for adding a new feature? Just because it can be done? What's the definition of a valuable feature?

[Cheater512]

Just to say this: We would love to see this feature in 3.0, but there won't be enough time, probably. It is in important feature, but not important enough to stop the presses.

What if say I made it (paying attention to the Coding Guidelines) and then someone would only have to check the code.
I'd be happy to maintain the RSS part of phpBB3.

Is there any problem with that?

[NNO-Stephen]

Demand is present for a lot of things. The amount of the demand is in question, I think. And even significant demand does not make for a valuable addition. That was my point.

very very true.

but, RSS can be extremely helpful in integrating the forums community with the website. for instance, a little ticker that shows the most recently active threads, or the newest threads, or announcements. or use the feeds for a Dashboard widget for OS X (or even that PoS Konfabulator which Dashboard was based on). not to mention it would be beneficial for moderators as they could have a bit easier time keeping up with a fairly active board if it was presented in a nice condensed RSS feed in their aggregator of choice NetNewsWire or something. inform them as soon as a new thread is posted... like "FREE iPODS!" or some such

there are plenty of benefits. I look forward to this feature hopefully being a part of 3.2 .....pleeeeease?

[Hyde]

RSS is *very* useful for me. I read every new post on our forum (~100-150 posts per day) via our RSS feed in Opera without any need to navigate on the forum pages - just with the arrow up/arrow down keys (Mozilla Thunderbird would work fine as well - you can read posts just like emails). I can read everything very fast this way and can click the link to a post (and thread) if necessary.

I use the tiny rss plugin that I refered to earlier just to have a list of most recent topics in Mozilla. Some forums are very busy, others very slow, it's an easy way to monitor them. Right now I have 4 forums which offer this feed (takes about one minute to install the add-on in 2.0x so it's not hard to convince board admins) and I truly find it very useful that I do not need to keep 4 windows open to be able to follow what happens on those forums but instead can just click my live bookmarks.

[TasDevil]

tiny rss plugin

We use the russian one: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=254606" target="_blank - more info: http://naklon.info/rss/about.htm" target="_blank - it even has AddOns for RSS Autodiscovery (this RSS symbol in the browser's address line) and for showing the RSS users on the "Who is online" page.

I hope it'll be available for Olympus, too.

Tas.

[SamG]

I'm going to show my ignorance here (yet again), but I am wondering about this "CM2F/CM4F" thingy I've seen a phpBB admin or two implement. Is this something that over the long haul might be preferable to RSS?

[MysteryQuest]

I think that there are a lot of people these days that use RSS and that amount is growing each day. But if you would create a RSS or other syndication application, make sure it doesn't use too much load. phpBB 2 is quite heavy in means of server load, memory use and database use. (I don't know how this is with Olympus though). Most RSS & Syndication readers refresh there page every 30 or 60 minutes. That's quite a heavy load if you wouldn't keep this simple.

[Alfatrion]

RSS would add to the server load. A server/website onwer should be able to say what features one would like to run and what features one doesn't like to run. That should take this concern away.

One of the new features of phpBB3 is caching, which lowers the server load and responce time. Something similair might be also an idea for RSS.

[murnauvsbuñuel]

tiny rss plugin

We use the russian one: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=254606" target="_blank - more info: http://naklon.info/rss/about.htm" target="_blank - it even has AddOns for RSS Autodiscovery (this RSS symbol in the browser's address line) and for showing the RSS users on the "Who is online" page.

I hope it'll be available for Olympus, too.

Tas.

yeah i hope this too