Dang, I'm spending too much time around this water cooler, but the fine folks and strange accomplishments prove mesmerizing.
So, is there any chance of getting an RSS feed for this forum?
http://tools.wackomenace.co.uk/phpbb-rss/
It could let us snoop on the chatter here even better than the National Security Agency.
(Animation = artistic terrorism, by the way)
RSS for this forum ?
Moderators: Víctor Paredes, Belgarath, slowtiger
Ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto.
Could one of you forum admin types (Vern? Genete?) please PM Mike about this again? While we know he's busy doing such a mod takes less than five minutes (I know -- I just did TWO of my forums yesterday for a grand total of five minutes for both).
If he can't spare five minutes then he could let one of you do it -- I'd be glad to walk you through it, Vern. He'll have to grant you TCP access, but I can't see why that would be an issue. The enhancement to this forum would be immense (I never thought much about RSS until a member asked me for it yesterday. Now after looking at it I can't believe I never had it -- it enables us to see new posts almost as they happen, all without the hassle of having to click and read each one, and makes management of such information a snap).
Once again -- this mod can be made easily whether the forum is updated or not -- takes only a few minutes at most (when you think about it you can realize why that's so -- all an RSS feed is is just the same sort of forum search page for all recent posts except it includes the content as well, with a line at the top indicating it's an RSS Feed. So even if the mod wasn't available (which it is) you could just take and modify the search page and resave that as your feed. But the mod is just this modified page, and that's all that needs to be copied into the appropriate place in the server, and you're done. One file, one copy, nothing to change -- it's a no-brainer).
I'm going to violate rules and cross post this -- it's too important not to have someone notice this (which wouldn't be a problem with RSS Feeds :>)
Could one of you forum admin types (Vern? Genete?) please PM Mike about this again? While we know he's busy doing such a mod takes less than five minutes (I know -- I just did TWO of my forums yesterday for a grand total of five minutes for both).
If he can't spare five minutes then he could let one of you do it -- I'd be glad to walk you through it, Vern. He'll have to grant you TCP access, but I can't see why that would be an issue. The enhancement to this forum would be immense (I never thought much about RSS until a member asked me for it yesterday. Now after looking at it I can't believe I never had it -- it enables us to see new posts almost as they happen, all without the hassle of having to click and read each one, and makes management of such information a snap).
Once again -- this mod can be made easily whether the forum is updated or not -- takes only a few minutes at most (when you think about it you can realize why that's so -- all an RSS feed is is just the same sort of forum search page for all recent posts except it includes the content as well, with a line at the top indicating it's an RSS Feed. So even if the mod wasn't available (which it is) you could just take and modify the search page and resave that as your feed. But the mod is just this modified page, and that's all that needs to be copied into the appropriate place in the server, and you're done. One file, one copy, nothing to change -- it's a no-brainer).
I'm going to violate rules and cross post this -- it's too important not to have someone notice this (which wouldn't be a problem with RSS Feeds :>)