RSS for a certain topic

[GCRaistlin]

Is it possible to use RSS to view changes in a certain topic? I don't see RSS icon anywhere in the forum.

[turbojet]

Nope and I've tried a few third party sites like page2rss with no luck. It would be really nice to have this feature. If you find something that works, please share.

[GCRaistlin]

I believe (but didn't check yet) that WebSite-Watcher could help here. Adding pages would be not so fast as with RSS feeder but it should not be a serious issue. Besides that it's really the only way to get all topic updates for sure 'cause email notifications ain't being delivered if you (me) don't visit the forum for a few days.

[GCRaistlin]

It was mentioned (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=833583#post833583) that the forum supports RSS. I read in another topic that it can be found for whole subforums. But I haven't found anything RSS related at all...

[turbojet]

I don't remember there ever being rss feeds available but maybe it was another nice feature, like auto url links, that's been disabled.

[GCRaistlin]

I just wonder how the others track topics they're interested.

[QBhd]

I hit the new posts link and skim through... then hit the last read link on the left side of each thread I want to catch up on... takes you to the next post in the thread you have not read. EASY PEASY

http://i.imgur.com/lVUE7Au.png

QB

[turbojet]

I do the same as QBhd, would really prefer rss though.

[GCRaistlin]

The problem is that if you don't visit the forum after receiving a few notification emails (for example because you don't have anything to say in the topic) they're stop being delivered at all. So you're forced to visit the forum.

[Swede]

I could have sworn that I've wrote a post about the RSSfeed a loooong time ago but since even I can't find it...

Try http://forum.doom9.org/external.php?type=RSS

If you're just interested in one forum use http://forum.doom9.org/external.php?type=RSS&forumid=8 or multiple http://forum.doom9.org/external.php?type=RSS&forumids=8,45

But, nope, there's no way to RSS a single topic, just a complete forum.

(Oh, and I had no idea that the notifications stops after some time, could you give me some specifics?)

Swede

[turbojet]

Thanks Swede, that helps, is there any way to show the post in the rss feed?

[Swede]

Try RSS1 or RSS2 instead of just RSS, those are the only options for now.

[turbojet]

Same with RSS1 and RSS2.

The way the header comes in all replies to a certain thread are seen as duplicates, that's proving to be fairly problematic. For example madvr thread will show on the first reply it catches, which was 6 hours ago but has never show again although there's replies.

[GCRaistlin]

(Oh, and I had no idea that the notifications stops after some time, could you give me some specifics?)
Well I'm mostly the reader on Doom9, not the writer. So I don't need to vizit the topics I'm subscribed to often. For example I'm subscribed to http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=146228. After the vizit I receive first a lot of notifications, then one or two in a day. But when I vizit the topic again I find out tens of pages with new messages.

[GCRaistlin]

It seems that I've found the way to force the forum engine not to stop sending email notifications. In WebSite-Watcher I have created the bookmark to http://forum.doom9.org/subscription.php?do=viewsubscription (with the authorization macro) and set check period to 1 min. So it works like I vizit the forum every one minute. It works - but it's what is called a crutch. For this to work, I need the computer with WebSite-Watcher to be online permanently.