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BendiBus · 2006-04-09 22:32:46

I've just learned of the joys of RSS! From a search of boards, I've found a feed for new threads. I'm sure it's been mentioned before, and there's probably a good reason why it's not available, but an RSS feed for each forum would be really, really useful! I'm sure it could reduce server/database loads too :confused:

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09-04-2006 11:32pm

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I've just learned of the joys of RSS! From a search of boards, I've found a feed for new threads.

I'm sure it's been mentioned before, and there's probably a good reason why it's not available, but an RSS feed for each forum would be really, really useful!

I'm sure it could reduce server/database loads too

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#2 10-04-2006 12:46pm
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BendiBus wrote:

I've just learned of the joys of RSS! From a search of boards, I've found a feed for new threads.

I'm sure it's been mentioned before, and there's probably a good reason why it's not available, but an RSS feed for each forum would be really, really useful!

I'm sure it could reduce server/database loads too

Server/database load would probably be much the same, but network traffic might be much lower though. Sounds like a great idea.

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#3 19-06-2006 8:21pm
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Been in place years.

E.g. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/external.php?forumids=228

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#4 24-06-2006 12:33pm
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yeah RSS feeds are dead handy (I assume that was a VBulletin original feature?)

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When I click the link above, there is no feed in it. If I delete the forumids variable in the querystring, the full list across all feeds comes up but not for individual forums. Any suggestions?

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#6 17-11-2006 11:01am
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DJB wrote:

When I click the link above, there is no feed in it. If I delete the forumids variable in the querystring, the full list across all feeds comes up but not for individual forums. Any suggestions?

This work?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/external.php?forumids=410

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#7 17-11-2006 11:08am
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Hi! That seems to work but do you have the feed for the webmaster forum? I tried both:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/external.php?forumids=23 (which is the forumid in vbulletin)
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/external.php?forumids=5 (the overall tech)

or is there some other id that I need to put in?

Thx

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#8 21-11-2006 7:22pm
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DJB wrote:

Hi! That seems to work but do you have the feed for the webmaster forum? I tried both:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/external.php?forumids=23 (which is the forumid in vbulletin)
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/external.php?forumids=5 (the overall tech)

or is there some other id that I need to put in?

Thx

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/external.php?forumids=23 is correct

The problem is the ampersand in the title "boards.ie - Webmaster & Flash" is breaking the parser.

Maybe one of the admins can figure out how to escape it properly or rename it to something more XML friendly.

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#9 10-01-2007 1:41am

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XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/external.php?forumids=23
Line Number 6, Column 32:	
	<title>boards.ie - Webmaster & Flash</title>
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