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foofighter:
I love the new forum, and have subscribed to it using an RSS reader. This makes it easy for me to see what's new without having to go to the website. However, I also sync the RSS to my portable widgets, so that I can read it whenever I'm on a train or bus or something. But as it is the RSS only includes a small piece of each post, and I have to go online to read the whole thing.

Would it be possible to change so that the RSS feed contains the entire forum message? Or have an alternative RSS feed for this? That would REALLY make it easier for me to track what's going on in the forum.

Thanks!

rs:

--- Quote from: foofighter on September 19, 2008, 04:21:58 PM ---I love the new forum, and have subscribed to it using an RSS reader. This makes it easy for me to see what's new without having to go to the website. However, I also sync the RSS to my portable widgets, so that I can read it whenever I'm on a train or bus or something. But as it is the RSS only includes a small piece of each post, and I have to go online to read the whole thing.

Would it be possible to change so that the RSS feed contains the entire forum message? Or have an alternative RSS feed for this? That would REALLY make it easier for me to track what's going on in the forum.

Thanks!


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You should buy an iPhone, then you could just surf the forum...     ;)

Seriously, be careful what you wish for.  What about some of Laura's ginormous posts or those with graphics?  It might overwhelm RSS.

foofighter:

--- Quote from: rs on September 19, 2008, 05:56:19 PM ---You should buy an iPhone, then you could just surf the forum...     ;)

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I am actually using an iTouch, so you're pretty close ;-)


--- Quote from: rs on September 19, 2008, 05:56:19 PM ---Seriously, be careful what you wish for.  What about some of Laura's ginormous posts or those with graphics?  It might overwhelm RSS.

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Well, actually that's precisely the kind of thing I want to read while I'm on the bus or waiting for someone to show up!

foofighter:
Hi!

I'm reading both SOTT and the forums primarily through the RSS feeds. That way I can keep up with it on my phone or computer easily, and know what's new. It works ok, but the main problem is that both the SOTT and forums feeds do not contain the full information, only abstracts. If they had the full content there would be no need to go to the websites, and my only contribution to the bandwidth usages would be reading the RSS feeds.

So, would it be possible to include the full articles and posts in the RSS feeds? Or alternatively, would it be possible to have new feeds different from the current ones which include the whole content? If any of these two are doable, it would be MUCH appreciated!

Additionally, for the forum feeds, if the title of the RSS entry included the name of the poster, that would make it even better. When I'm short on time I tend to only read moderator messages, so having that extra info in the title would help a lot.

foofighter:
Duh, I just remembered I had asked this question before. I should have searched to find my own question before posting again :-) In any case, it wasn't really resolved last time, so... any thoughts on it? It would really help...

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