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Jan 31, 2004
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kon_kat wrote:If you subscribe to a forum you get daily updates with new posts followed by an update of posts that were updated. Problem is the email only gets sent out once a day [11pm mountain time] so 1-day deals will have elapsed by the time you get the email or for limited quanty deals the stores will be out of stock by the time you get the email.

I'm not sure why a sort by thread start date isn't an option and sort by poster's name and topic title are.
Way back when (in the long long ago time) you could subscribe to a forum on RFD and get *instant* notification of new threads. Reeeaaaalllllly miss those days. Now you can only get instant notifications for individual threads you have subscribed to.

*edit*
And ... from another thread in this forum, the sort by thread start date is not available in vBulletin without some hack.
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Aug 3, 2003
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actully screw RSS. where's the mobile service? :'(
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Mar 20, 2001
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canook wrote:Yep, it's a Firefox feature. From checking a few of the sites I know of where the icon pops up, it would appear to be the following code in the header (enclosed in > and < naturally, but the html filters don't like that):

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link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/whatever.rss" /
I'm guessing that Firefox picks it up based on that. It then lets you integrate the feed into the "Live Bookmarks" - which is really handy for checking headlines without actually loading the page.
I've added this to all of the footers. Let me know if it works.
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Nov 3, 2002
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Derek wrote:I've added this to all of the footers. Let me know if it works.
Works perfectly, Derek, thanks!
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Mar 28, 2004
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canook wrote: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. :D
RSS is cool until you have 200 feeds in your Firefox... Then it gets a little tiresome...


But yes, very cool and very powerful technology!
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Aug 22, 2003
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Another vote for RSS for the hot deals forum, pretty please!
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Aug 16, 2004
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bump for RSS in the hot deals forum!

:D
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Nov 22, 2003
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The RSS feed doesn't seem to have updates for the past couple weeks...
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Mar 31, 2001
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malaca wrote:The RSS feed doesn't seem to have updates for the past couple weeks...
Unsubscribe and then resubscribe...
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Jul 29, 2002
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I've actually modified a konfabulator widget on the desktop to read RFD feed, nothing fancy but it works for me.

a hot deal forum feed would be great..
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Dec 20, 2003
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malaca wrote:The RSS feed doesn't seem to have updates for the past couple weeks...
I have the opposite; Thunderbird seems to be getting 2-5 copies of an item, some from the past.
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Jul 17, 2003
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siriuskao wrote:I've actually modified a konfabulator widget on the desktop to read RFD feed, nothing fancy but it works for me.

a hot deal forum feed would be great..

I did the same thing, but realized that by the time a hot deal gets posted on the feed, I probably would have already seen it in the forums...
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May 17, 2005
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Just curious,

Wouldn't getting the info for RSS feeds bypass the advertising, and result in less clickthrough revenue for the site?

If thats the case, why would rfd be interested in publishing content though RSS?

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