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digitalpress
09-30-2004, 03:12 PM
I know I've been asked to get this from the site's news/front page - and that will happen soon enough. In the meantime, if anyone was looking for an RSS feed from the forums themselves, perhaps this will suffice? Keep in mind that I don't know much about the format. This is RSS 2.0 and the link is to be used as an "aggregator". If there's something you need added to this let me know and I'll see what I can do.
http://tinyurl.com/64eaq
kevincure
09-30-2004, 03:36 PM
Right on, Joe. RSS for the forum might be a few too many messages for me, but once the RSS from the front news is up, I'll definitely be subscribed.
digitalpress
09-30-2004, 03:42 PM
Right on, Joe. RSS for the forum might be a few too many messages for me, but once the RSS from the front news is up, I'll definitely be subscribed.
It's set at the most recent 10 topics. Is that too many? I can change it.
TheSmirk
09-30-2004, 04:10 PM
looking good so far, brudda! :rocker:
kevincure
09-30-2004, 04:47 PM
Looks fine to me.
Ze_ro
09-30-2004, 08:19 PM
Was someone looking for Roundtable RSS?
Oh, ha, I guess that was me... I remember asking a while back about an RSS feed of the front page items. An RSS feed of the forum is a bit much though. Most people keep an RSS aggregator running that updates every half hour or so, so you'd eventually just leach every single headline out of the forums, which would be rather excessive. Still cool though :)
--Zero
JSFox
09-30-2004, 08:25 PM
What an RSS for? :embarrassed:
digitalpress
10-01-2004, 08:22 AM
Was someone looking for Roundtable RSS?
Oh, ha, I guess that was me... I remember asking a while back about an RSS feed of the front page items. An RSS feed of the forum is a bit much though. Most people keep an RSS aggregator running that updates every half hour or so, so you'd eventually just leach every single headline out of the forums, which would be rather excessive. Still cool though :)
--Zero
I mentioned this before but it's set to extract just the most recent ten entries. Is that not working right?
digitalpress
10-01-2004, 01:44 PM
Side note: I have nothing to test this with other than my Yahoo page. If you add their fairly new RSS feature to your "My Yahoo" and paste that URL into the box you'll get the five most recent posts as newslinks. Pretty cool stuff.
digitalpress
10-07-2004, 02:05 PM
Allow me to continue this conversation with myself by adding that I've modified the output slightly - you will no longer see [moved] or [locked] topic headers in your feed.
Looks great in Yahoo! Try it.
http://tinyurl.com/64eaq
dreams
10-07-2004, 02:15 PM
Weird. I just looked at it in Yahoo! and I see a moved thread, even after a forced refresh. :o
The Retrogaming Roundtable
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* FS: Shou-sama's ENTIRE LIBRARY 3000+ pieces in Buying and Selling - 17 minutes ago
* Can anyone help identify this piece of gaming history? in Video Game Forum - 17 minutes ago
* So, I finally got my Timetop Gameking... in Video Game Forum - 17 minutes ago
* Moved: Official TurboDuo Thread in Video Game Forum - 17 minutes ago
* Official TurboDuo Thread in Classic Discussions - 17 minutes ago
SegaAges
10-07-2004, 02:20 PM
2 things:
1st, how do i use yahoo to look at these
2nd, i noticed you are using xtml, i am pretty good with html, are there reall many differences, because, not to brag, i consider myself very good with html, and am thinking about upgrading my knowledge, but there would be no point if it is pretty much the same.
digitalpress
10-07-2004, 02:40 PM
2 things:
1st, how do i use yahoo to look at these
Go to "my yahoo", click on "change content", add RSS newsfeeds (BETA) or if you're using the newer version of "my yahoo" it's just "change content"/click on the RSS link. Then plug that URL in. VOILA! You'll always have the five newest Roundtable topics right there on your Yahoo page.
2nd, i noticed you are using xtml, i am pretty good with html, are there reall many differences, because, not to brag, i consider myself very good with html, and am thinking about upgrading my knowledge, but there would be no point if it is pretty much the same.
I am very inexperienced with XML but I'm learning. The main difference is that it's more rigid - you can't leave open tags or it won't work. The plus side of this is that it's more predictable, making things like RSS possible. There are other people around here with much more experience and skills (like "sisko" or "SpasticFuctard") in XML that could give better advice.
digitalpress
12-09-2004, 07:16 AM
Was someone looking for Roundtable RSS?
Oh, ha, I guess that was me... I remember asking a while back about an RSS feed of the front page items. An RSS feed of the forum is a bit much though. Most people keep an RSS aggregator running that updates every half hour or so, so you'd eventually just leach every single headline out of the forums, which would be rather excessive. Still cool though :)
--Zero
As of last night, the DP front page news is also RSS-ified. Check it out, you can now plug in our "classic gaming" news stories in with anything else you currently track on your RSS aggregator. A good example of that is the front page itself, which also includes headlines from Gamespot and GameDaily :)
http://www.digitpress.com/index2.htm
evilmess
12-09-2004, 10:21 AM
Nice work on the upgrades.
The forum topic links in the "Retrogaming Roundtable" open in a new window instead of opening the forum in the same frame. Anyway to fix this?
TheSmirk
12-14-2004, 04:23 PM
Another way to view is via Firefox 1.0, it has built in RSS subscribing, it add the feed to your bookmarks with the links in its own group
NoahsMyBro
10-20-2005, 06:12 AM
I've searched the forums for "RSS", and not found anything on this - forgive me if this is old news.
A little while ago, maybe a few months, I set up a little snippet of code on the front page of my very amateur, personal/vanity website, that used the DP RSS stuff to list a few of the most recent DP Forum posts. The posts were linked to the Forum itself.
I've recently noticed the topics no longer appear in the list on my page.
With the technical rejiggerings that have occured on the site, was the RSS stuff disabled, whether intentionally or unknowingly?
bigdaddychester
10-20-2005, 01:35 PM
I think those rejiggerings messed up the code a little but now it seems to work. I noticed it wasn't working when some of the topics hadn't changed in a few days. My Yahoo homepage seemed to show a different link for the RSS than what was showing on DP. I did a quick copy and paste and a note to yahoo and BAM!! everything was working.
I think if you go HERE (http://www.digitpress.com/index.htm), click on the "XML" button it will give you the code I think you're looking for.
JJNova
10-20-2005, 02:01 PM
Joe, Does this explain why the old RSS feed no longer works? My client has been giving me a "cannot refresh news links" for about 2 months now. I was assuming it was due to the attacks the website suffered, and that it wasn't implemented again.
Of course, I also thought it was a PHPbb plug-in, therefore kinda iffy at times.