TBN via RSS

[DaveNay]

Muhammed/Ibrahim,

Has there been any thought to publishing TBN via RSS? I have been using a new feature of Firefox that allows RSS feeds to appear in my bookmarks folder as individual entries. I can imagine TBN fitting in well with this scheme where each forum is it's own seperate feed.

Just a suggestion /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Dave

 

[Muhammad]

We'll continue to look at the options as the demand builds. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[JayC]

What's RSS?

 

[ikline]

RSS Info

 

[Kevin_in_VA]

Any news on this? It would be a big timesaver.

 

[Muhammad]

We'll have RSS feeds in our next forum upgrade. No firm plans on when that will be, though. Probably a couple of months.

 

[Kevin_in_VA]

OK great. Do you plan to announce it when they are available?

 

[OkeeDon]

I read the info in that link -- twice -- and while I recognized most of the words (except livemark??), the meaning of the article completely escaped me. It was totally in geek-speak. Can someone explain in simple terms? Why would I want a livemark or a bookmark folder and what would it do for me?

 

[Gatorboy]

<font color="blue"> It would be a big timesaver. </font>

How exactly would this save time? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[JerryG]

<font color="blue"> I read the info in that link -- twice -- and while I recognized most of the words (except livemark??), the meaning of the article completely escaped me. It was totally in geek-speak. Can someone explain in simple terms? Why would I want a livemark or a bookmark folder and what would it do for me? </font>
Yes, please. Like Don, I had no idea what I was reading.

 

[DaveNay]

As the originator of this thread, let me add my experience since this feature became abailable in Firefox.

Blah! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

It started out sounding like something that was usefull, however after several weeks of utilizing the feature to subscribe to the headlines of a few of the sites I frequent, I can say that it added nothing usefull to the experience for me. I found no advantage to the Live Bookmarks, and always ended up going directly to the site to browse anyway.

My vote for a TBN enhancement is.....a threaded version of the "Read Posts from the Last (1, 6, 12, 24) hours".

Dave

 

[Gatorboy]

<font color="blue"> ( My vote for a TBN enhancement is.....a threaded version of the "Read Posts from the Last (1, 6, 12, 24) hours". ) </font>

What a mess that would be. If someone posts the 30th response from a thread, do you want all 29 previous ones shown even though it was not posted in the last x-hours? If not, how exactly would you display that post in a threaded view? How would independent threads be shown threaded? I'm just not seeing it, perhaps I'm not thinking clearly.

 

[DaveNay]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( What a mess that would be. If someone posts the 30th response from a thread, do you want all 29 previous ones shown even though it was not posted in the last x-hours? If not, how exactly would you display that post in a threaded view? How would independent threads be shown threaded? I'm just not seeing it, perhaps I'm not thinking clearly. )</font>

An expandable/collapsable tree of threads that have been active during the timeframe, sorted (sortable by user?) by the thread with the most recent posting at the top and then descending.

Dave

 

[Muhammad]

Recent messages will be changed to display "threads with new posts in the past x hours" rather than individual posts. This will save time by just showing you the one thread link instead of multiple post links.

 

[DaveNay]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Recent messages will be changed to display "threads with new posts in the past x hours" rather than individual posts. This will save time by just showing you the one thread link instead of multiple post links. )</font>

To Gatorboy....THHHPPPPPTTTTT!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I win!

Just kidding with ya!

Thanks for the info Muhammad.

Dave