A simple google search on phpbb rss (http://www.google.com/search?q=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.
There is also the post announcement bot (http://www.pishoque.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1461) 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.
Quote from: metroid compositeThere is also the post announcement bot (http://www.pishoque.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1461) 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.
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It also seems to be turned off; when I first made this post, it wasn't announced in channel.
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.
Put it to a vote to see the interest, maybe?
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
. . . am I the only person who uses the 'view posts since last visit' button?
Yes. Though you should've heard the noise when it vanished during the upgrades for a moment.
Dracos
Quote from: Rezantis. . . 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.
Quote from: Rezantis. . . am I the only person who uses the 'view posts since last visit' button?
There's a 'view posts since last visit' button?
Cool.
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. ;)
Mmm, it'd bear a re-examination, yes.
Dracos
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)