BG RSS Feeds?

[Delenn]

Does BG support RSS feeds? If not, are there any plans for them?

I've managed to consolidate the vast majority of my web reading with rss feeds and wondered if I could do the same with BG. Searching the forums doesn't reveal much, especially since "rss" is too short of a search term. My current way of accessing the forums is to bookmark my "List Subscriptions" page and check "New Posts" every once in a while, which works decently.

[Kaisha]

BG forum's are running vBulletin, and a quick Google showed the framework does have RSS support, but it's disabled by default. Perhaps Sonomaa can give some insight as to whether it's worth a hassle or not, as I've no idea what the controls are like for setting up, or whether it's worth the CPU cycles generating a new feed every post/thread.

[Pikarya]

Definitely not a problem for current-gen processors, especially at minute updating intervals/etc.

[Sonomaa]

BG forum's are running vBulletin, and a quick Google showed the framework does have RSS support, but it's disabled by default. Perhaps Sonomaa can give some insight as to whether it's worth a hassle or not, as I've no idea what the controls are like for setting up, or whether it's worth the CPU cycles generating a new feed every post/thread.

Ill mention it to ragn and see if its a possibility or not

[Ragns]

The way vBulletin does it is very ghetto and barely documented at all. The feature is already there but it's super hidden.

It should work now.

For the lazy ones: http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2

[Delenn]

Thanks for the info!

RSS feed added. Hopefully it'll be useful without additional filtering! Otherwise I can always fall-back to my subscriptions page (~'.')~

[Ragns]

Thanks for the info!

RSS feed added. Hopefully it'll be useful without additional filtering! Otherwise I can always fall-back to my subscriptions page (~'.')~

You can ask it for feeds of specific forums too.

[Delenn]

You can ask it for feeds of specific forums too.

Nice! From some quick googling, here's one way to get forum-customized feeds for those that don't know how:

Modify the base feed URL:
http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2
with a suffix of the form
"forumids=<comma_separated_list_of_forum_ids />"

The forum ids can be found from examining the forum links on the main page:

• Go to http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/index.php
• Depending on your browser, highlight the forum and look at the URL. For example, "Forum News, Rules, Donations, and Information" is linked to "http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=57", therefore the corresponding forum id is 57.

Example: Forum-customized feed: To only get rss updates for the spam and gaming forums, use:
http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/exter...forumids=68,91

Personally, I use separate feeds per forum (only one id for feed) for better organization/sanity.

Hope that helps,



Links:

• Forum-specific Feeds
• Interesting link: Add-a-link-to-the-RSS-feed-for-each-forum

[Delenn]

Now, if only there was a way to get a feed of one's subscribed threads only... (should investigate later)

[Ragns]

That or just use the "Subscribe to this page" button in FireFox when viewing a specific forum

[Delenn]

That or just use the "Subscribe to this page" button in FireFox when viewing a specific forum

That's convenient o.o (simpler ftw!)

Minor Aside: I've also been using chrome for more than a year now. I don't see that option

[Delenn]

For reference, here's what my new BG folder in Google Reader looks like and the subscriptions:

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/7669/reader.th.png
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/9...iptions.th.png

(renamed feeds for quicker incremental search (keyboard shortcuts ftw) and updated the thumbnail links to be direct links instead of the silly imgshack framing page)