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Sep 14th, 2004 10:51 AM #1Deal Addict
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RFD RSS Feed?
I've just been playing around with the RSS feed features in the latest Firefox, and I'm finally beginning to appreciate the value of RSS.
So I was wondering - would it be possible to have an RSS feed of the latest deals from the main RFD site? With Firefox, it creates a "live bookmark", where the bookmark expands to show you all the RSS headline which you can then click on to go to that item.
Of course, an RSS feed of active subscribed threads from the user control panel would be nice, but perhaps a little overly ambitious.
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Sep 14th, 2004 11:48 AM #2Administrator
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Guess I should have had a closer look at the front page!
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Very nice! Latest deals right in my bookmarks.
As to the second part, how difficult would it be to create an RSS feed for threads in your control panel with new messages in them? Or would it just not be worth the effort at this point, with RSS not used by the majority of people?_______________
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Sep 14th, 2004 07:10 PM #4Administrator
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I don't think we're going to RSS for forum threads at this point. Maybe if more people used the RSS feed that we've already got then we'd consider it...
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I'm using the RFD RSS feed but wish that I had the "hot deals forums" threads available. However, I did grab the bike from SportMart using the VISA coupon - would not have seen it had it not have been for the RSS that was tucking quietly into my MS Outlook at work
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Sep 14th, 2004 09:30 PM #6Newbie
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Thanks!
I didn't know there was an RSS feed? I've got my feed demon all setup and too would like to eventually see the buy and sell forums listed.
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Sep 24th, 2004 12:12 PM #7Deal Addict
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Normally when there's a RSS/Atom feed available, there's an orange XML button on the page. If there isn't a button then it's not surprising nobody uses the feed because nobody knows about it.
With some sites it even appears in the Firefox PR1.0 status bar (e.g. watch the RSS orange button in the status bar when you go to slashdot.org )
A feed for the HotDeals forum would be great.
Being able to read the threads with NNTP would be even better
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Sep 24th, 2004 02:14 PM #8Deal Addict
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Can someone explain what this RSS feed is? I'm not familiar with it.
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Sep 24th, 2004 02:37 PM #9Deal Addict
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This PCWorld article has a nice synopsis and getting-started guide. Although, I recommend Firefox 1.0PR with "Live Bookmarks" for your RSS client. What's better than having it right in the bookmarks? Originally Posted by HeatSeeker
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Sep 24th, 2004 03:06 PM #10Deal Addict
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Originally Posted by canook
This PCWorld article has a nice synopsis and getting-started guide. Although, I recommend Firefox 1.0PR with "Live Bookmarks" for your RSS client. What's better than having it right in the bookmarks?
Wow...Thanks alot for the suggestion...another plus for firefox..keeps on rolling....this feature is awesome..wish i read up more on this earlier..but i guess better now the never...
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Sep 25th, 2004 11:20 AM #11Deal Addict
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Thanks! That was helpful. Originally Posted by canook
This PCWorld article has a nice synopsis and getting-started guide. Although, I recommend Firefox 1.0PR with "Live Bookmarks" for your RSS client. What's better than having it right in the bookmarks? Reply With Quote
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Sep 25th, 2004 06:26 PM #12Deal Addict
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The bookmarks are nice, but a real RSS client ( http://www.sharpreader.net ) will give you more than just the headlines, like summaries and other features. Originally Posted by canook
And if you can read the news through sharpreader you won't have to load tons of animated gif and swf sidebars like you would by going to the linked web page. You save a lot of time compared to browsing web pages.Last edited by malaca; Sep 25th, 2004 at 06:30 PM.
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RSS Feeds for new threads in selected forums
Just a note to push this topic back to the top for consideration again. I really miss the feature of the prior forum software that allowed email subscriptions to new threads in a given forum.
Having an RSS feed for this would be an even better feature than the old email one. From what I've seen and read on http://www.vbulletin.com/ it is technically possible.
So ... please sir, can I have some more (rss feeds)?_______________
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Feb 18th, 2005 10:14 PM #14Deal Fanatic
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Would be cool to have! I would add it the RFD feeds to my XBOX (in avalaunch and XBMC)
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Feb 19th, 2005 05:31 AM #15Member
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RSS feeds for the forums would be great.
It's tedious on the webpage scrolling through links I don't want to see just to get to links I do want to see. Wouldn't be so bad if I could sort by thread date instead of last poster date.
I've been fooling around with this forum client if anyone else wants to give it a shot.
http://www.marsjupiter.com/callisto_newsreader/
It can load up the RFD forums. There's no easy way to flag articles which makes it useless to me. Haven't found any other program like it though. Reply With Quote
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