RFD RSS Feed?

[canook]

I've just been playing around with the RSS feed features in the latest Firefox, and I'm finally beginning to appreciate the value of RSS. :)

So I was wondering - would it be possible to have an RSS feed of the latest deals from the main RFD site? With Firefox, it creates a "live bookmark", where the bookmark expands to show you all the RSS headline which you can then click on to go to that item.

Of course, an RSS feed of active subscribed threads from the user control panel would be nice, but perhaps a little overly ambitious. :D

[Derek]

We do have a feed:

http://www.redflagdeals.com/deals/main.php/info/syndicate

[canook]

We do have a feed:

http://www.redflagdeals.com/deals/main.php/info/syndicate

Guess I should have had a closer look at the front page! :) Very nice! Latest deals right in my bookmarks.

As to the second part, how difficult would it be to create an RSS feed for threads in your control panel with new messages in them? Or would it just not be worth the effort at this point, with RSS not used by the majority of people?

[Derek]

I don't think we're going to RSS for forum threads at this point. Maybe if more people used the RSS feed that we've already got then we'd consider it... :D

[Canucklehead]

I'm using the RFD RSS feed but wish that I had the "hot deals forums" threads available. However, I did grab the bike from SportMart using the VISA coupon - would not have seen it had it not have been for the RSS that was tucking quietly into my MS Outlook at work :cheesygri

[indataform]

I didn't know there was an RSS feed? I've got my feed demon all setup and too would like to eventually see the buy and sell forums listed.

Thx.

[malaca]

Normally when there's a RSS/Atom feed available, there's an orange XML button on the page. If there isn't a button then it's not surprising nobody uses the feed because nobody knows about it.

With some sites it even appears in the Firefox PR1.0 status bar (e.g. watch the RSS orange button in the status bar when you go to slashdot.org )

A feed for the HotDeals forum would be great.

Being able to read the threads with NNTP would be even better :razz:

[HeatSeeker]

Can someone explain what this RSS feed is? I'm not familiar with it.

[canook]

Can someone explain what this RSS feed is? I'm not familiar with it.

This PCWorld article (http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,111699,00.asp) has a nice synopsis and getting-started guide. Although, I recommend Firefox 1.0PR with "Live Bookmarks" for your RSS client. What's better than having it right in the bookmarks? :)

[x21hx]

This PCWorld article (http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,111699,00.asp) has a nice synopsis and getting-started guide. Although, I recommend Firefox 1.0PR with "Live Bookmarks" for your RSS client. What's better than having it right in the bookmarks? :)


Wow...Thanks alot for the suggestion...another plus for firefox..keeps on rolling....this feature is awesome..wish i read up more on this earlier..but i guess better now the never...

Thanks again for bringing this to my attention!

[HeatSeeker]

This PCWorld article (http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,111699,00.asp) has a nice synopsis and getting-started guide. Although, I recommend Firefox 1.0PR with "Live Bookmarks" for your RSS client. What's better than having it right in the bookmarks? :)

Thanks! That was helpful.

[malaca]

What's better than having it right in the bookmarks?
The bookmarks are nice, but a real RSS client ( http://www.sharpreader.net ) will give you more than just the headlines, like summaries and other features.

And if you can read the news through sharpreader you won't have to load tons of animated gif and swf sidebars like you would by going to the linked web page. You save a lot of time compared to browsing web pages.

[GreenWeenie]

Just a note to push this topic back to the top for consideration again. I really miss the feature of the prior forum software that allowed email subscriptions to new threads in a given forum.

Having an RSS feed for this would be an even better feature than the old email one. From what I've seen and read on http://www.vbulletin.com/ it is technically possible.

So ... please sir, can I have some more (rss feeds)?

[YLSF]

Would be cool to have! I would add it the RFD feeds to my XBOX (in avalaunch and XBMC)

[kon_kat]

RSS feeds for the forums would be great.

It's tedious on the webpage scrolling through links I don't want to see just to get to links I do want to see. Wouldn't be so bad if I could sort by thread date instead of last poster date.

I've been fooling around with this forum client if anyone else wants to give it a shot.
http://www.marsjupiter.com/callisto_newsreader/
It can load up the RFD forums. There's no easy way to flag articles which makes it useless to me. Haven't found any other program like it though.

[YLSF]

There still is no little "RSS" popping up when I browse the main page. Would be nice to setup the RFD homepage so it triggers that little icon in the bottom right hand corner.

[GreenWeenie]

(periodic bump)

How about I ask the direct question that I have no business asking ;)

Is there a reason why RFD does *not* have the email and/or rss feature enabled for new topics in the forums?

If so ... then knowing would help soften the disappointment of not having it.
If not ... then there is hope for its eventual enablement!

[Derek]

There still is no little "RSS" popping up when I browse the main page. Would be nice to setup the RFD homepage so it triggers that little icon in the bottom right hand corner.

Is that a Firefox feature? I've never seen it with IE.

[kon_kat]

(periodic bump)
Is there a reason why RFD does *not* have the email and/or rss feature enabled for new topics in the forums?


If you subscribe to a forum you get daily updates with new posts followed by an update of posts that were updated. Problem is the email only gets sent out once a day [11pm mountain time] so 1-day deals will have elapsed by the time you get the email or for limited quanty deals the stores will be out of stock by the time you get the email.

I'm not sure why a sort by thread start date isn't an option and sort by poster's name and topic title are.

[canook]

Is that a Firefox feature? I've never seen it with IE.

Yep, it's a Firefox feature. From checking a few of the sites I know of where the icon pops up, it would appear to be the following code in the header (enclosed in > and < naturally, but the html filters don't like that):

link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/whatever.rss" /

I'm guessing that Firefox picks it up based on that. It then lets you integrate the feed into the "Live Bookmarks" - which is really handy for checking headlines without actually loading the page.

[GreenWeenie]

If you subscribe to a forum you get daily updates with new posts followed by an update of posts that were updated. Problem is the email only gets sent out once a day [11pm mountain time] so 1-day deals will have elapsed by the time you get the email or for limited quanty deals the stores will be out of stock by the time you get the email.

I'm not sure why a sort by thread start date isn't an option and sort by poster's name and topic title are.Way back when (in the long long ago time) you could subscribe to a forum on RFD and get *instant* notification of new threads. Reeeaaaalllllly miss those days. Now you can only get instant notifications for individual threads you have subscribed to.

*edit*
And ... from another thread in this forum, the sort by thread start date is not available in vBulletin without some hack.

[Corel]

actully screw RSS. where's the mobile service? :'(

[Derek]

Yep, it's a Firefox feature. From checking a few of the sites I know of where the icon pops up, it would appear to be the following code in the header (enclosed in > and < naturally, but the html filters don't like that):

link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/whatever.rss" /

I'm guessing that Firefox picks it up based on that. It then lets you integrate the feed into the "Live Bookmarks" - which is really handy for checking headlines without actually loading the page.

I've added this to all of the footers. Let me know if it works.

[canook]

I've added this to all of the footers. Let me know if it works.

Works perfectly, Derek, thanks!

[lindmar]

I've just been playing around with the RSS feed features in the latest Firefox, and I'm finally beginning to appreciate the value of RSS. :)

So I was wondering - would it be possible to have an RSS feed of the latest deals from the main RFD site? With Firefox, it creates a "live bookmark", where the bookmark expands to show you all the RSS headline which you can then click on to go to that item.

Of course, an RSS feed of active subscribed threads from the user control panel would be nice, but perhaps a little overly ambitious. :D

RSS is cool until you have 200 feeds in your Firefox... Then it gets a little tiresome...


But yes, very cool and very powerful technology!

[rage]

Another vote for RSS for the hot deals forum, pretty please!

[SubXO]

bump for RSS in the hot deals forum!

:D

[malaca]

The RSS feed doesn't seem to have updates for the past couple weeks...

[Ryan]

The RSS feed doesn't seem to have updates for the past couple weeks...

Unsubscribe and then resubscribe...

[Ryan]

The splash page lists the 15 most recently created threads in Hot Deals.

http://www.redflagdeals.com

[siriuskao]

I've actually modified a konfabulator widget on the desktop to read RFD feed, nothing fancy but it works for me.

a hot deal forum feed would be great..

[Absolute]

The RSS feed doesn't seem to have updates for the past couple weeks...
I have the opposite; Thunderbird seems to be getting 2-5 copies of an item, some from the past.

[aZnRYcEbOi]

I've actually modified a konfabulator widget on the desktop to read RFD feed, nothing fancy but it works for me.

a hot deal forum feed would be great..


I did the same thing, but realized that by the time a hot deal gets posted on the feed, I probably would have already seen it in the forums...

[Ferman]

Just curious,

Wouldn't getting the info for RSS feeds bypass the advertising, and result in less clickthrough revenue for the site?

If thats the case, why would rfd be interested in publishing content though RSS?