RSS feeds for the forum

[tspilman]

This was suggested once before, but i figured i'd try again now that Bloglines is hugely popular.

I would have missed out on the Double Bandwidth Special if it wasn't for the admin email... thanks for that Andrew! I used to have little time for checking websites, so i had very few i would check regularly... like 5 or 6 sites.

Now bloglines comes along... i now read 60 or so sites from news, blogs, to forms. The little notifier icon in my task bar gives me a reminder every 6 hours to having new updates and the web interface helps me only bother checking with sites with actual updates i'm interested in.

The only trouble i've had is that many forums do not have RSS feeds... including this one. Johnathan noted that vBulletin has a modification to add RSS feeds. Maybe now we can get that added?

[AndrewT]

As I mentioned before, we have no plans to add this to our forums at this time.

You can subscribe to the announcements forum to receive e-mails when a new topic is posted.

[tspilman]

Sorry. You had said "I will consider adding it here in the near future" back in a thread in late 2004. I'll subscribe to the emails.

[Jonathan]

He replied back later stating due to the recent increase of forums
being hacked, he was not going to use a unofficial modification, ie
one with little/no support from the authors of vB or a partner company blah etc.

[tspilman]

Thanks, Jonathan. Hopefully vBulletin will officially support RSS at some point.

[sdjl]

Here's hoping so

David

[dammitjanet]

I wrote a very basic php script for Invision that works outside of the actual forum script, runs on a cron job and creates the feed I pass to other sites.

All it does is query the topics and posts tables directly, and creates the RSS from there. I supply the script with the appropriate forum id's so I can pick the forums i want to supply to different feeds.

Now i dont do vbulletin boards, but surely the same principle could be used.

[Jonathan]

I wrote a very basic php script for Invision that works outside of the actual forum script, runs on a cron job and creates the feed I pass to other sites.

All it does is query the topics and posts tables directly, and creates the RSS from there. I supply the script with the appropriate forum id's so I can pick the forums i want to supply to different feeds.

Now i dont do vbulletin boards, but surely the same principle could be used.

I'm betting it could. Andrew, could we try something like that?
A script to work outside of vB to directly query tables and
create a RSS feed?

[AndrewT]

Until this is offered by VB, this is likely not going to happen, sorry.