RSS Feed (Favorites) For List Of New Topics?

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  • December 23, 2008 1:13 am at 1:13 am #588970
    lakewoodwife
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    Is there any way to get a list of new topics added to the rss feed for favorites? When I’m short on time I only read the topics that come up in my RSS, but then I realise I’m missing any new topics that are posted. Maybe we could have a topic called new topics and each time a new topic is posted a comment could be added with the name of the new topic (we could then add ‘new topics’ to our favorites and always be up to date)

    Any ideas??

    Thanx!

    December 23, 2008 3:14 pm at 3:14 pm #638594
    lakewoodwife
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    Thank you, Joseph, but that is not exactly what I was looking for. Yes, if I got the rss feed for each forum, I would see all the new topics, but that would mean having at least 15 additional feeds on my home page (I use igoogle) and I think it would be a bit much. Is there a way to get a feed for the entire CR, or to add the forum feeds to my favorites?

    December 31, 2008 3:41 pm at 3:41 pm #638595
    lakewoodwife
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    does this mean no one else has any ideas, or did this topic just fall off the home page too quickly?

    December 31, 2008 4:16 pm at 4:16 pm #638596
    Joseph
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    lakewoodwife,

    What you are asking for is not a standard feature of the software running this forum, and would require some serious programming adjustments to implement.

    The best option is what I suggested above, or subscribe to the 5 most popular topics RSS feed.

    February 18, 2009 12:14 am at 12:14 am #638597
    Joseph
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    lakewoodwife,

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/rss/topics

    This will just display new topics. (The first post on new threads.)

    To get the full CR RSS Feed:

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/rss/

    That will show you every post in all threads.

    If anyone wants to learn about RSS, see http://reader.google.com (or you can use http://www.google.com/ig like lakewoodwife does.)

    February 18, 2009 4:06 am at 4:06 am #638598
    RoshYeshivah
    Member

    what does rss stand for

    February 18, 2009 2:49 pm at 2:49 pm #638599
    lakewoodwife
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    Thank you so much Joseph. I had tried the other method you suggested but it became too cumbersome & I was still missing out on new threads especially in forums that have a popular thread (or 2). I appreciate your efforts! Yasher Koach!!!!!

    February 18, 2009 11:09 pm at 11:09 pm #638600
    lakewoodwife
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    It seems that the ‘topics’ one actually gives all recent posts (not only new topics). I will try the other one and see if there is any difference.

    February 19, 2009 1:39 am at 1:39 am #638601
    Joseph
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    ‘welcome.

    lakewoodwife – The topics-only feed is supposed to only give new topics/threads first post, but I too noticed it is not perfect. Nevertheless, it won’t give you EVERY post (far from it), but sometimes it seems to think if an old thread is revived – it looks at it as new thread again. A bit odd, but generally it’ll get the new threads, with a little bit of some other stuff that technically shouldn’t show up.

    The other feed is supposed to give you all posts in all threads. It is pretty reliable, but I noticed if the mods do a large update at once after a long pause (it seems) it may miss a few posts. (The technical reason seems to be the RSS feed only hold X number of posts at once – seems to be 32, but it may be 50.)

    February 19, 2009 3:39 pm at 3:39 pm #638602
    lakewoodwife
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    Just to clarify, it seems that the topics feed matches the most recent topics list on the main page of the CR. The posts feed has all of the most recent post- often more than one per topic. Again, Thanx!

    February 20, 2009 7:48 pm at 7:48 pm #638603
    WolfishMusings
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    Joseph,

    What’s an RSS feed? 🙂

    The Wolf

    February 20, 2009 8:04 pm at 8:04 pm #638604
    Joseph
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    That’s an insiders joke (for anyone reading Wolf’s comment.)

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