RSS and forum fixing

[Odin]

I've installed the latest RSS feed on NMA again, let's see how this one goes, since alot asked about our RSS feed.

I've also done some cleaning up in the forums, more specificly I removed two templates which we hardly use.
Link: RSS page

 

[Phil]

Thanks a lot, Odin.

Btw, did you apply the access control ? Or else you're gonna see your mysql connections run dry in a few instants.

Edit: Odin, you might want to use a service like Feedburner - it will replicate the feed for you.

 

[Odin]

I haven't fiddled that much around with the RSS feed, but I was going to apply the access control.

Looking into the feedburner now, to see what it is and functions.

 

[Ashmo]

You know, RSS streamers are rather easy to write, actually.

Eh. Anyway.

If you are using a Mozilla browser (Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, Netscape, ...) you can bookmark an RSS stream as "live bookmark" and use the built-in RSS aggregator.

Just go to Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks and select File->New Live Bookmark... and then enter the URL (http://www.nma-fallout.com/rss.php) and a name (No Mutants Allowed, for example). The Live Bookmark will show up as a folder on the right side. Just move it whereever you want.

Selecting the live bookmark in the Bookmarks menu (or your Bookmarks Toolbar if you put it there) will show all news articles in chronological order in a normal pop-up menu (just as the contents of a bookmarks folder would).
Firefox supports Live Bookmarks since version 1.0, if your version is older (Help->About Mozilla Firefox), you should upgrade now (click my sig) as v1.0 has many other new features and less bugs.

Sadly right now the headlines are truncated to a certain length and the only way to see the full headline is opening the linked article.
Other than for FARK that's usually not much of a problem tho.

 

[Garrik]

So is the feed actually up and running? I get an error when I try to set it up.

-Garrik

 

[Odin]

Not right now, I'm doing some maintenace on it.. more to come later..