Bertha in the Basement Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 I don't know about anybody else, but these days I follow virtually everything important to me through rss feeds, and I'd like to keep up with crazyboards that way too. Is this a possibility? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withing Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 I don't know about anybody else, but these days I follow virtually everything important to me through rss feeds, and I'd like to keep up with crazyboards that way too. Is this a possibility? I follow everything through feeds too - without my Google Reader, I wouldn't read anything - but I think that with a site this big that might be a bit much? I dunno. The admins might know more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlewing Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Errr...what's an RSS feed?! I wish I was joking! I have absolutely no idea what it is LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withing Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Errr...what's an RSS feed?! I wish I was joking! I have absolutely no idea what it is LOL Say you like a comic called xkcd and you want to read it every day, but you don't want to go to the website every day... There's a little button on this comic website that looks like this and it will link that website to a reader - I use Google Reader, but there are others - and that will "feed" the comic into your reader every day. Any website (blog, newspaper, comic, whatever...) with that image has a "feed" and will send whatever's new to your reader without you having to look to see if there's been an update... It's a one-stop area to get everything new instead of going to all of your "favorites" to look for updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlewing Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Ok, thanks for that Path, it makes a bit more sense to me now. Now all I need to do is find out what a Google Reader is hahahaha! Don't worry though, my techie housemate has just come back from her trip to a very muddy festival in Ireland so I'll be able to pick her brain when she's unscrambled it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penny Century Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 the only think you can follow with rss are the blogs, and only if the the individual has set their blog to allow it, and (i think) the default is no feeds off the blogs. uh, but there's a shared items from google reader widget for the blog sidebar... i'm a google reader addict myself. some forum software has a feed of new posts, the doesn't. sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 We've got the ability to send out RSS feeds for the boards. I disabled it in the past because it was a memory hog and nobody was using it. I'll play with it again in the near future, maybe after we upgrade to the next major version of Invision Power Board later this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpuppy Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Yes! Crazyboards would be an AWESOME addition to my iNews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertha in the Basement Posted July 14, 2009 Author Share Posted July 14, 2009 the only think you can follow with rss are the blogs, and only if the the individual has set their blog to allow it, and (i think) the default is no feeds off the blogs. uh, but there's a shared items from google reader widget for the blog sidebar... i'm a google reader addict myself. some forum software has a feed of new posts, the doesn't. sorry. This reminds me of my sister-in-law in the mid-90s asking me why I had an internet account. "My friend tried it and told me there isn't much there," she said. The feeds did start with blogs (and the default for them is on), but they're everywhere now, and there's not much that isn't also in rss format these days. I do follow virtually everything I'm interested on the internet with feeds - and I can do that because virtually everything interesting HAS a feed. You just need to know how to use it. Most message board software has that functionality - you just have to turn it on. IP Board does too. At least recent versions. In fact if you look at Invision's own forum - they have a feed for their forum right there at the top. If I had a small message board, not only would I flip the feed functionality on, I'd be teaching everyone to use it - it's a godsend for small sites that have a hard time keeping people coming back. Esp. message boards which whither and die if they can't keep that critical mass of posters. Plus if you do it right, you can seriously decrease your bandwith per user ratio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withing Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 the only think you can follow with rss are the blogs, and only if the the individual has set their blog to allow it, and (i think) the default is no feeds off the blogs. uh, but there's a shared items from google reader widget for the blog sidebar... i'm a google reader addict myself. some forum software has a feed of new posts, the doesn't. sorry. This reminds me of my sister-in-law in the mid-90s asking me why I had an internet account. "My friend tried it and told me there isn't much there," she said. The feeds did start with blogs (and the default for them is on), but they're everywhere now, and there's not much that isn't also in rss format these days. I do follow virtually everything I'm interested on the internet with feeds - and I can do that because virtually everything interesting HAS a feed. You just need to know how to use it. I think Penny Century was talking about the blogs for this board, not blogs in general... Most message board software has that functionality - you just have to turn it on. IP Board does too. At least recent versions. In fact if you look at Invision's own forum - they have a feed for their forum right there at the top. If I had a small message board, not only would I flip the feed functionality on, I'd be teaching everyone to use it - it's a godsend for small sites that have a hard time keeping people coming back. Esp. message boards which whither and die if they can't keep that critical mass of posters. Plus if you do it right, you can seriously decrease your bandwith per user ratio. er... Did you read VE's post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertha in the Basement Posted July 14, 2009 Author Share Posted July 14, 2009 er... Did you read VE's post? No - I got distracted while writing the reply and in the meantime he posted it. It's good he turns it on, I'm in favor of it. And oh thooooooose blogs. Never-mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 OK, I made 3 test ones. If those work OK I'll do more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophelia Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 OK, I made 3 test ones. If those work OK I'll do more. If it really takes up a lot of memory, I feel that it is unnecessary. As you mentioned before, no one was really using it. It just seems unnecessary. That is just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertha in the Basement Posted July 14, 2009 Author Share Posted July 14, 2009 Thanks for turning on what you already have - that was fast wow. FYI I've also solved the problem for myself through feedyes - so don't do it just for me. And if you wanted you could direct anyone to that kind of solution or even set up a Yahoo pipe or whatever. They're just uglier. It's for the board health you make the decision. I'm emphatic that it's the smart move for a small message board. Even if you get only a few users using it - you're talking (probably) about people who don't drop out. Everyone else wanders away eventually. That can be huge for keeping a critical mass of posters going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withing Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 It's for the board health you make the decision. I'm emphatic that it's the smart move for a small message board. Even if you get only a few users using it - you're talking (probably) about people who don't drop out. Everyone else wanders away eventually. That can be huge for keeping a critical mass of posters going. Not to be snippy, but this is one of the larger and longest running message boards that I've been on. And a there's a large chunk of users that have been here for years. You should see the panic that ensues when the server is down... Sure people wander off, but I don't think it's because we didn't have rss feeds... Just my humble opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 So do the feeds I made work OK for everyone? What other boards would you like feeds to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Also, how many entries should I have queued up per board at one? Is five too few? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tryp Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I've been using the Depression feeds, and they're working for me For me, I'd think that the "Stuff that makes you feel like crap" section should be the priority for feeds. I'd like the PD board and PTSD, personally, but that's just me. P.S. I think 5 is fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 So far I think we're going to go down through all the med boards and whatever is requested of the other ones Stuff that makes you feel like crap is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Of course none of this matter now that rss is dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalgas Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Of course none of this matter now that rss is dead. That's kind of funny, because when I briefly tried to follow something on Twitter before getting sick of it...I used RSS to do it instead of signing up for an account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withing Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Of course none of this matter now that rss is dead. Wow, what an.... uh - interesting - article. What's *really* interesting are the comments (sometimes I love the comments). They sure laid into that guy. RSS isn't dead - it's hiding in the closet. That's why a lot off people don't know what it is. I like it though, so I'll still feed it from time to time to keep it alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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