think tank forum

k, so this stuff is super easy to code up.

what kind of feeds do you want?

examples:
1. threads most recently posted in for the whole site
2. most recent posts for the whole site
3. threads most recently posted in for a specific forum
4. most recent posts for a specific forum
5. most recent posts for a specific thread

not sure. will "have a think" about it

a freshies feed would be nice

Why not all and let people make ``personal'' feeds? Requires more coding though ...

if #2, utilize the jump feature!

i'm leaning towards #1 (a freshies feed).

Freshies feed ftw.

freshfeed

any other requests?

if i make this feed, will you stop mashing, nestor?

i kinda like mashers.

i'll rss mash

i'll mash till i die
rss don't update enough

YES

What the hell is mashing anyway? I do that with potatoes...

mashing the refresh keycombo!

okay, the problem i have with a personal freshie feed is authentication. we could have a url like this:

http://www.thinktankforums.com/rss/fresh/1234/

where 1234 is the user_id. but then other people would be able to see what you've read or haven't read. so i think there should be some sort of authentication.

how about this idea:

on the "edit your profile" page, there would be a button that generates a passcode seperate from your password. then when you're logged in, ttf links rss feeds with your passcode automatically placed in the url, so it is transparent to the user.

but if you somehow manage to compromise your passcode, you can return to the "edit your profile" page and generate a new passcode. you would have to update your rss url with your reader, consequently.

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we could just use your normal password in the url and only use https for the rss feed, but i'm afraid that a feed reader might compromise your password. also, you may want to change your password without having to update your rss urls.

i think this passcode might be useful for other GET requests with future features.

how does this sound?

i guess we don't really need to personalize the freshie feed. the benefit of personalizing the freshie feed is that threads that you have read on the forum won't appear in your feed.

or does rss even work like that?

say rss.php displays threads 3, 4, 5, and 6.
your reader gets 3, 4, 5, and 6 as rss items.
you go to ttf and read thread 4.
your reader updates and gets 3, 5, and 6 (no 4).

wil the reader still display thread 4 from earlier? or not? (do readers cache? i've definitely had experiences with google reader's cache.)

I don't think the reader built into Firefox caches.

> 2. most recent posts for the whole site

can rss.php please:

* display thread titles instead of cryptic thread id and revision number
* not link to "revision.php", but to "thread.php"

bump

:p

testing new rss... (dumb google reader cache)

trying again.

COME ON GOOGLE, UPDATE YOUR CACHE

bounce

hm.

http://validator.w3.org/feed/

r412

what bsdlite said.

> * display thread titles instead of cryptic thread id and revision number

that part?

> * not link to "revision.php", but to "thread.php"

because i did this part.

it just that it's not a thread feed--it's a revision feed. but i can include the thread title when the revision type is a post.

rss is easy. I made a feed for my blog. I copied a bit from ttf's code :).

so do you have a setup that auto updates the feed? or do you manually update the feed?

also, i never thought of using unicode to embed the html in the xml file. i was racking my brains trying to figure that out.

well the feed file is dynamically generated from the mysql database.