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Subscriptions feed

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 8:50 am
by ichaelm
I was just thinking that it would be pretty cool that instead of getting a whole bunch of email notifications for subscribed threads, we could get some kind of RSS feed instead. I have no idea what kind of work might be involved in implementing this though, but i just thought of it and thought it would be a kinda cool feature.

There would be two ways to do it that I can think of. Either there would be an RSS feed for each thread, and you would subscribe to all the ones you wanted to monitor with an feed-reader, or you could have everyone get their own RSS feed for all their subscribed threads. The first one makes a lot more sense to me.

My inbox gets clogged with notifications all the time and it gets kinda annoying. This is what feeds are for! :D

Re: Subscriptions feed

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 9:07 am
by binary010101
Or you can just use the built-in filters in GMail or whatever mail provider you use.

EDIT: Unless you create a separate RSS for each thread, I don't see any way to group multiple threads into one RSS unless each one is custom-made.

Re: Subscriptions feed

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 9:07 am
by brobo
Theres a way to turn of email notifications under the User Control Panel, but that is a pretty cool idea.

Re: Subscriptions feed

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 9:09 am
by ichaelm
Yes, i can turn off email notifications, but i still want to be notified!! :P

Re: Subscriptions feed

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 10:11 am
by Dark Sabre
I just enabled the built in RSS feed stuff, but I have yet to actually find where any of it is now that it is supposedly there...so if you happen to see it, give a shout, lol :?

Re: Subscriptions feed

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 2:23 pm
by ichaelm
lol ok thanks anyway

Re: Subscriptions feed

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 2:28 pm
by ichaelm
http://www.scioly.org/phpBB3/feed.php

That's for everything though.

Re: Subscriptions feed

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 2:29 pm
by Dark Sabre
Yeah, but supposedly it should show up for individual topics and forums too. So I''ll see if I can figure out why it isn't >.>

Re: Subscriptions feed

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 10:10 pm
by gh
Err, our forum skin's header doesn't show the meta tag for it. For now, you can slap an query string on feed.php and it will work as you want it to: http://scioly.org/phpBB3/feed.php?f=66&t=1258

Re: Subscriptions feed

Posted: June 1st, 2010, 7:53 am
by ichaelm
ok thanks!