ファブリス
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2006-06-14
Posts: 3699
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I finally tried a PunBB mod to add better RSS support. Consider it beta for now, if people are happy with it I'll see to put clear RSS links on the forum.
Default RSS Feed (all posts)
http://forum.koohii.com/rss.php
For these below, just point at categories, forums or topic links and note the numbers, and insert the number in the URL
Forum CATEGORY Feed
1 = Remembering the Kanji
2 = Learning Japanese
3 = kanji.koohii.com (Feedback etc)
4 = Remembering the Hanzi
http://forum.koohii.com/rss.php?cid=2
Forum Feed
Example: Group Study
http://forum.koohii.com/rss.php?fid=10
Topic Feed
Example: Learning Japanese > Learning resources > Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS
http://forum.koohii.com/rss.php?tid=387
I'm currently using NewsFire on Mac, but there's plenty of choice for Mac, Windows and online: RSSOwl, FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, Google Reader, etc.
Sebastian
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Registered: 2008-09-09
Posts: 520
If people want to use the new rss feeds before Fabrice adds the links officially, you can create a bookmark for that purpose.
Create a bookmark with the urls provided by Fabrice, and replace the number with this:
%s
For example, for individual topics:
http://forum.koohii.com/rss.php?tid=%s
(Of course, I suppose you can just bookmark this link directly as usual)
Then assign a keyword for the bookmark. Now you can point to a link to any topic with your mouse, go to the awesome bar and enter the keyword and the number of the topic, and voilą!
BTW, the name given to each feed and article are too long, so they'll end up all looking the same.
Reviewing the Kanji - Learning Japanese » kanji.koohii.com » Feedback » Better RSS Feeds
kanji.koohii.com » Feedback » Better RSS Feeds (posted by ファブリス)
It would be appreciated if the names were much shorter, with the most identifying bit at the beginning (so that they be always easily identifiable).
They would look like something like this:
RevTK -Better RSS Feeds - Feedback
Better RSS Feeds (by ファブリス)
In the case of the individual articles this doesn't matter much, but for example in Google Reader I see all the feeds as "Reviewing The Kanji -..." which will be troublesome when I start adding more topics.
ファブリス
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2006-06-14
Posts: 3699
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Sebastian: you should be able to rename feeds in your RSS reader, no?
Well.. I suppose the type of feed can be deduced from the posts.. I'll experiment.
As for what are RSS feeds. It's just like news feeds. Just download a RSS reader, add some RSS feed addresses, and it'll keep you up to date whenever new posts appear on the relevant blogs/forums.
Now quite frankly, in my opinion, it feels awkward to use RSS feed with a forum. That's because a forum is like many different feeds. It just doesn't feel natural to read it in RSS reader. I saw there is a "category" field in RSS 2.0 but when I added one with the name of the forum or the forum category it didn't do anything in NewsFire. So the main feed will just show posts as they appear in chronological order, regardless of where they are posted.
