Forum RSS feeds

I’d like to read the ’Show New Replies’ and the ’Show Recent items’ (or any other interesting sub-section) throught RSS, but the forum corrently generates only one global (raw!) RSS feed which is not that handy!

It should be easy to set up the forum so that each page generates a feed with just the messages threads found in its body... even I managed to get such a behaviour in my testings with Ditto and NewsFeed snippets!

I wish it was that easy. We use SMF for the forums here and it doesn’t have board specific or user specific RSS feeds unless there is a mod available for it. If you find one, let us know as if it is stable, I’ll put in a request to have it installed.

Nice idea!

I’ll setup feeds later, but as for now use:

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?sa=recent;type=rss2;action=.xml&limit=10;board=ID

where ID belongs to the board you want to get syndicated e.g. 9 for Forum Suggestions

Enjoy!

Well... check http://modxcms.com/forums/

I appreciate if you test all rss feeds and let me know if all are working right.

regards,

zi

zi,
when I click on one of the icons It tries to download index.php. something must not be setup right.

kyley, rss-icons should be used to copy&paste the feed url to your preferred NewsReader, they are now working correctly, as far as I can tell from importing one in ’Sage Rss extension’ for Firefox and one in ’Google rss reader’

the rss-icon in the address-bar still points to the static/global rss; all the different feeds links can be added in the header, at that point clicking on the rss-icon will show a list of all the available feeds

Hey Thanks, it’s still not what I have in mind to keep track of replies to my posts and new posts since last visit, but still a big enhancement!

The download index.php is actually a feature. I have already explained this elsewhere on the forums but it is a problem with the browser not recognizing the xml/rss header (vs the tradition text/xml).

sorry, I didn’t realize thats how it was supposed to work. Thanks for clueing my in

The feeds work, but are somewhat annoying as they work off posts. Thus when I look at the feed for Important News, the top item is currently the 22nd reply in the MODx Repository thread; the second is the 21st etc etc. This is not particularly useful as a News feed. Although it was vaguely nice when it was the Thread Welcoming Me As Mod.

So in summary: I’d love New Threads feed instead of / as well as a New Posts feed.
After all, blog feeds usually just have the top post, not the comments.

Quote from: PaulGregory at Jun 30, 2006, 10:25 AM

The feeds work, but are somewhat annoying as they work off posts. Thus when I look at the feed for Important News, the top item is currently the 22nd reply in the MODx Repository thread; the second is the 21st etc etc. This is not particularly useful as a News feed. Although it was vaguely nice when it was the Thread Welcoming Me As Mod.

So in summary: I’d love New Threads feed instead of / as well as a New Posts feed.
After all, blog feeds usually just have the top post, not the comments.

Thanks for your reviews Paul, but SMF does not support this right now, or I am not aware of any mod which does the same thing.

But if anyone come across to mod/hack of this then please let us know.

best regards.

zi