How long has this been in the lower left corner of the Forums front page?

Hmmm, let's see... about 36 hours or so   I tidied up the forum and finished what was begun months ago, namely I finished the layout of the Profile, User List, Search and Search Results pages. I've still got my fridays off as I had planned but it took me a while to get organized working at home, but I'll get down to it eventually. Anyways, I'm really happy I finally got something done.

Technically the RSS output has always been present in the punBB forum package, but there was no explicit links to it.

I updated Firefox to version 2, and tried punBB's RSS output with the "Live Bookmark" feature out of curiosity. So now I can check whether there are any new posts or discussions in a dropdown menu in Firefox without actually going to the forum.

Here are some examples of RSS feeds you can point to:

Output the 15 most recently active topics

Output the 15 newest topics from the RTK1 > General Discussion forum

You can change the fid=n part in the above URL to get the same for the other forums.

Regarding the RSS output, good point! I'll have a look at it. This shouldn't be too hard but I won't be looking at it until January 5 or so.

It's probably the feed iself, it's the basic functionality that is included in phpBB. I'll have to look out for a RSS mod for punBB that has more features..

ziggr wrote:

Now I want more. More! I want the content of the forum post in the RSS feed, so that my reader shows paragraphs of text like this:
http://ziggr.com/img/heisig/rss-azuma2.jpg

Instead of metadata spewage like this:
http://ziggr.com/img/heisig/rss-rtk2.jpg

Then I could skim the posts within my reader.

Use Better GReader add-on for Firefox. It is a collection of Greasemonkey scripts, including one that does just what you wish.

By the way, the add-on is Firefox 3 compatible.