Very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very beta. Have a look and see if it does what you want.

yay!
id be even more excited if i knew where to find them


last edited by Freewheelin at 19:39:14 14/Jun/07

they're secretly hidden at the moment, its an excercise for the reader to find them (tip: look the address bar of this thread)

oh tricky. i did look there and saw nothing before though.

my own feed said

Testing: RSS feeds http://qgl.ausforums.com/?agn=thread&id=2532195

Yeh, those URLs wont work just yet until I deravel the mess that is ausforums url generation. But its a start!

will there be an official one for the main forum page? or do i continue using my own?

also theyre pointing at the wrong thing

http://www.ausforums.com/?id=2532195

http://qgl.ausforums.com/?agn=thread&id=2532195

my own one is here, http://freewheelin.uberwolf.net/cgi-bin/qglforum.cgi but the dns hasnt updated for me so i cant see it (although the bot i use can)


also ill learn to read one day

Excuse my ridiculous noobness...

...but wtf is an RSS feed?

I'm with CHUB.

its a xml/whatever list of new articles on a website...

I was using an RSS feed gadget thingy in vista on the sidebar, it downloaded a little sample of an article on a couple of websites and I could click it to go to the full article...

so you can subscribe to a thread?

devious. but with so many threads and each generally having a lifetime of only a couple of days you'd wanna use it sparingly

easy to keep an eye on epic threads

Come on baby
You know there's something missing
Don't find nothing
No more coincidences
Pretty baby
Before you give him all you got
Got to come closer
You got to give it one more shot

I still don't get it?

RSS Feeds are good for mobiles devices that can use the net.

You download the small xml file or whatever format it is and then browse new threads. Click and choose... You can set certain time intervals etc for when it should update the list.

You should click through to read the thread in PDA view... or at least let m.google.com work properly against this forum.

will there be an official one for the main forum page? or do i continue using my own?

That's all it is - its not RSS per thread or anything

?also theyre pointing at the wrong thing

Now fixed!

...but wtf is an RSS feed?

I'll post more info soon about what they are and how to use them (once I'm confident they're working :)

You should click through to read the thread in PDA view... or at least let m.google.com work properly against this forum.

I'm actually gonna try to make portable browser friendly versions of the pages

google reader is sooooooooooo sweet

...but wtf is an RSS feed?

Check out this image.

Click that little dealie.

In the dropdown, select "Add to Google Reader". You'll get a google page asking if you want to add to your Google home page or google reader. I prefer the reader.

You'll need a gmail account.

is it gone? I'm not getting the little live bookmark doobie in the address bar.

edit: k it's there now.

last edited by YoungNastyMan at 00:49:06 15/Jun/07

Cool, works just fine thanks.

A suggestion - Is it possible to get the list sorted based on last post within the thread or something? That way I know if it's been updated and stuff.

Also I found this really cool RSS Read plugin for Outlook 2003 (so you can read RSS feeds directly in Outhouse 2003)

http://rssfeederdotnet.sourceforge.net/

Seems to work good enough for most things - doesn't seem to support Digg RSS feeds for some reason but there's a source if you really want to hax it apart. Pretty neat little toy.

A suggestion - Is it possible to get the list sorted based on last post within the thread or something? That way I know if it's been updated and stuff.

nnnnnnnnno, because then its not really an RSS feed

Interesting... No wait the other thing, Tedious.

nnnnnnnnno, because then its not really an RSS feed

*siggggggghs* oh well it's worth a shot heh :)

Does this not work as a Live Bookmark in firefox? The list is always empty.

hmm works for me, can you tell me what URL you're trying to add as a live bookmark ?

url is: http://qgl.ausforums.com/rss.php?forumid=439207

this current thread doesn't work in terms of RSS feed

Firefox 2.0.0.4

maybe I am newb

you have to get to forums the right way to get the thinger..

if you click on the little menu bit that ends with qgl forum...like..

AusForums.com
LANs
QGL
QGL Forum

youll get end up in the ... thing?.. that gives you the feed icon in your address bar

url is: http://qgl.ausforums.com/rss.php?forumid=439207

What happens when you click on that link in Firefox? When I click on it I get a nice RSS page

yeh, when i add this one as a live bookmark in FF: http://qgl.ausforums.com/rss.php?forumid=439207
I get a blank list, the drop down just says empty.

If I add this one http://www.gamearena.com.au/rss/news.rss
It functions as expected with a dropdown list of the latest GA news topics.

if i open both urls directly they seem to have similar XML with no parsing errors but looking at the code and not really knowing how any of it works, they seem to have a key differnce.

QGL one has

<items>
<rdf:Seq> </rdf:Seq>
</items>

in the first section, while GA has

<rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4226667"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4226038"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4225893"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4225781"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4223873"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4223864"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4223831"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4223805"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4222116"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4222101"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4221794"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4220278"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4215913"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4215737"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4215697"/>
</rdf:Seq>

last edited by Dan at 11:03:13 16/Jun/07

Also godddddam it is way too hard to paste html code into ausforums :P Need's a BBcode style [code][/code] function.

ahhh, I seeeeee, I think. Can you try it now?

Getting parse error now.


Line Number 12, Column 70:<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.ausforums.com/x/439207?agn=thread&id=2532618" />
---------------------------------------------------------------------^

OK I gave up on using the dodgy ripped off RSS template I was using and rewrote it from scratch. It seems to work fine now in everything I've tested.

Yep, works as expected now. GG

Working now for me too.


last edited by trog at 18:05:05 16/Jun/07

I agree and support all Ausgamers staff and iniciatives!

last edited by trog at 13:03:54 17/Jun/07

oh, props on having the thread title in the page title finally

i've been wanting that