Board specific RSS feeds on Cass forum?

[ignis.intimus]

I was wondering if the forum is setup to do board-specific RSS feeds, and if so how to use that. It doesn't appear so, since I can only find a feed for the entire site. But there is a news line (upper right of forum window) that says "Don't miss our board-specific RSS feeds!" so I figured I would ask.

I ask because I have always experienced buggy behavior from the Notify feature. It often does not notify me, even though I will have checked that post recently, and have logged in recently.

 

[mcb]

I was wondering if the forum is setup to do board-specific RSS feeds, and if so how to use that. It doesn't appear so, since I can only find a feed for the entire site. But there is a news line (upper right of forum window) that says "Don't miss our board-specific RSS feeds!" so I figured I would ask.

I ask because I have always experienced buggy behavior from the Notify feature. It often does not notify me, even though I will have checked that post recently, and have logged in recently.

You can. If your browser doesn't automatically find the right URL (mine doesn't) then you can construct one. I don't know if this is discussed here in the forum, and there could be a better way, but you can find the original documentation here.

 

[mcb]

By the way, I have had problems with "Notify" too. For some reason it has skipped some of the more important new topics that have come up on the forum. My solution has been to regularly go to the forum website and review "most recent posts." RSS/Atom should work too, although building feed URLs by hand is not very convenient.

 

[Sirius]

Yust subscribe to:

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml;board=<id>

Copy&paste the id from the address bar.

For advanced settings, look at the SMF details (Megan's link).

 

[Scottie]

If you are using Firefox, for example, you'd navigate to the board you want the RSS feed for in your browser.

Then you click:

Bookmarks -> Subscribe to this page -> [pick second option, which will be the RSS feed for the current board]

 

[Carl]

I'm currently working on a Uni project developing an Android app, and I thought it would be cool to develop a SOTT news reader. I've not started on development yet, have just thrown together a quick Requirements Spec with some UI design ideas.

Anyway, my question: The Sott.net RSS feed seems to just push all of the stories from the website in date order, without the article image or the category that it is from. Is there any data sent in the RSS feed that I could use to display articles according to category in the main news feed, along with the image for each article?

I know you guys are all super busy so I'm not really asking for a big explanation (I'm fairly new to developing software and web technologies), but would just like to know if this is possible, and if there are any hints/pointers you could give? I.E. will I need to do something more advanced than simply displaying an RSS feed?

Thankyou for any help you could give :)

 

[Sirius]

Hey Carlise,

this was just one of my recent ideas, by the way. I thought about the same: Creating an Android App for Sott.net (somewhen). Though, I didn't think specifically on a feed reader since there are plenty general feed readers available.
I thought about porting my already existing search channel to that platform since I develop for Android and iOS both for company and privately at present, and such a tool would be quite handy; and it would not be that much work either.
If Sott.net team created a Google distribution account, they could give it away for free (it will be downloaded automatically by numerous people daily), so Sott.net will become more popular. This is the main advantage of it, actually. More serious users and readers may just boot up their Windows. ;)

 

[Carl]

Hey Carlise,

this was just one of my recent ideas, by the way. I thought about the same: Creating an Android App for Sott.net (somewhen). Though, I didn't think specifically on a feed reader since there are plenty general feed readers available.
I thought about porting my already existing search channel to that platform since I develop for Android and iOS both for company and privately at present, and such a tool would be quite handy; and it would not be that much work either.
If Sott.net team created a Google distribution account, they could give it away for free (it will be downloaded automatically by numerous people daily), so Sott.net will become more popular. This is the main advantage of it, actually. More serious users and readers may just boot up their Windows. ;)

Yes this is true. As I say, this project would be just to get the marks for my first level android development class. I most likely wouldn't release it unless I get time to properly flesh it out and be sure of quality/functionality, but I would certainly use it myself when on the move if it could display stories according to the sott categories :)