RSS Feeds?

mwhalber · Tue, November 2nd, 2004, 05:14 PM

Hi John!

Thanks a ton for the site...I was wondering if you had ever thought of adding RSS Feeds to the site at all?

Cheers!
Mike

***John Stone*** · Thu, November 4th, 2004, 11:23 AM

You're welcome! Thanks for supporting it.

RSS is something I'll be looking into, but nothing's certain yet.

inurb · Tue, November 8th, 2005, 05:03 PM

RSS would be a great feature.

***John Stone*** · Tue, November 8th, 2005, 05:30 PM

Done. Sorry it took so long, it went completely off my radar.

Those of you who want to test it please do so. I'll make a permanent link once I know everything is working:

http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/e...l.php?type=rss

Genetix · Tue, November 8th, 2005, 06:11 PM

Can someone explain in a nutshell what RSS is? I've seen it a lot but I don't see the use. To me it basically seems like unencoded HTML

***John Stone*** · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 08:21 AM

Here ya go, Genetix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29

We're talking about RSS 2.0 ("Really Simply Syndication")

guava · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 08:38 AM

I read the link, but that just seemed to make it even more confusing.
:d_confuse :d_confuse :d_confuse

***John Stone*** · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guava

I read the link, but that just seemed to make it even more confusing.
:d_confuse :d_confuse :d_confuse

Basically it's a way to get a real-time feed of the newest threads on JSF. You need an RSS reader to decipher the XML. There are many free ones available on the web.

jk0 · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 09:43 AM

Thanks, John. I'll be putting this on my web portal (http://portal.jk0.org). If you want to see how it looks feel free to check it out.

--Josh (jk0)

***John Stone*** · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jk0

Thanks, John. I'll be putting this on my web portal (http://portal.jk0.org). If you want to see how it looks feel free to check it out.

Very cool, that probably explains what it does better than anything I could write!

I've added shiny new RSS and XML icons to the bottom of the forums. Each one will take you to the expected feed. I think Firefox will automatically detect the RSS feed.

jk0 · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Stone

...I think Firefox will automatically detect the RSS feed.

Opera does as well.

Masher · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 10:43 AM

Tested it, and it works like a charm. Great feature John. Thanks.

Masher

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Jim · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 10:48 AM

I'm using Firefox, and I downloaded a reader aswell and I still get just codes on that link you posted John.

ShadowPenguin · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 11:19 AM

www.google.com/reader

works like a charm, ah google is there nothing you can't do for me?

VERY cool feature, I dig it.

edit: err...well...once i get comfy with it it'll be cool, googles reader is (like many of its new services) still in Beta, but once you read a little on feeds you'll get the hang of it.

Tony Yates · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 12:15 PM

Would be nice if you could publish your daily updates in RSS, I could then just read the feed and not eat up all your bandwidth getting the same images every day.

Regards

Tony

jk0 · Wed, November 9th, 2005, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tony Yates

Would be nice if you could publish your daily updates in RSS, I could then just read the feed and not eat up all your bandwidth getting the same images every day.

Regards

Tony

They should be in cache if you visit the site that often.

1FastGTX · Sat, November 12th, 2005, 01:40 PM

Awesome John!!!!

inurb · Sun, November 13th, 2005, 11:56 PM

Google has an awesome feature for personalized home pages. www.google.com/ig
That way you can have access to all your familiar bookmarked pages, stock quotes, mail inbox, rss links and forum threads from anywhere.