Suggestion: RSS Feed

[Jon]

A simple google search on phpbb rss turns up useful pages on how to add RSS support to PHPbb. I think I am not the only one who would find such a feature useful, especially if you could selectively subscribe to individual boards.

[metroid composite]

There is also the post announcement bot which Hal made.  On the flip side, for people who already use RSS it'd probably be more convenient just to have one format.

Eh, couldn't hurt.

[Jon]

There is also the post announcement bot which Hal made.

The post announcement bot does not notify me of posts that were made while I'm not on IRC; I can turn on my computer in the morning, fire up my newsreader, and it'll catch up on the night before. Also, if I'm ignoring #sr because there's, for example, a complicated ongoing debate about Utakata or something that I care nothing about, I'll also miss the Postbot announcements. RSS is made for this thing. I'm not saying Postbot isn't useful, but I don't think it's enough, either.

Edit:
It also seems to be turned off; when I first made this post, it wasn't announced in channel.

[Halbarad]

The post bot doesn't announce every post in every channel it's in, or it'd be complete chaos. It announces a specific forum's posts to a specific channel or channels, and this particular forum doesn't announce posts anywhere.

The main problem I have with setting up an RSS feed for the board is that it's a fairly large amount of work (most board mods have to be done manually at this point) for maybe one or two users. If we had a ton of people using RSS feeds and newsreaders I'd be more willing to look into this, but I'm disinclined to go to the effort for a small minority of users.

[Jon]

Put it to a vote to see the interest, maybe?

[Dracos]

A quick SR poll showed few folks knew who it was.

I wouldn't be adverse to it, but the work done for the handful that would use it is unnecessary.

Dracos

[Rezantis]

. . . am I the only person who uses the 'view posts since last visit' button?

[Dracos]

Yes.  Though you should've heard the noise when it vanished during the upgrades for a moment.

Dracos

[Jon]

. . . am I the only person who uses the 'view posts since last visit' button?

No, I use it as well. But frequently I forget to check it. The advantage of a RSS feed is that the computer remembers to check it for you.

[metroid composite]

. . . am I the only person who uses the 'view posts since last visit' button?

There's a 'view posts since last visit' button?

Cool.

[Brian]

Oh, this is late, but it's selfish, so I figure it's okay. ;)

I would like to second the RSS feed notion; now that google's been updated to accept RSS feeds as options to add to the frontpage, it would come in quite handy. ;)

[Dracos]

Mmm, it'd bear a re-examination, yes.

Dracos

[kpjam]

I'd find it useful, for what that's worth.

But I wouldn't be hurt or annoyed if it weren't implemented(I'm not programming it)