New Features? My RSS!

by Matt Mecham on May 4, 2005

Another day, another feature completed for IPB 2.1.

My attention has been turned to the RSS manager; specifically the RSS export manager.

It allows you to set up your own streams using your own criteria and these will be selectable to the viewer via a "Syndication" link (and most likely via HTML link refs in the HTML source).

I won’t babble on about it, the movie says enough.

Tomorrow will see the RSS import center work start. I plan to allow RSS feeds to be read and posted in a forum of your choice. That’s the plan, anyhow.

ACP: RSS Manager (Quicktime .mov, 4.5mb)

{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Swords May 4, 2005 at 6:59 pm

Brilliant work.

One Question: Can I post multiple RSS feeds into a single forum?

2 Myr May 4, 2005 at 7:54 pm

Very Cool!

The idea of importing an RSS feed directly as posts is great. We are often copying and pasting news items and replying. This will save a lot of effort.

3 Matt May 4, 2005 at 9:00 pm

Can I post multiple RSS feeds into a single forum?

Yes.

4 jinzo May 4, 2005 at 9:48 pm

I think i know what RSS is, but i’m not sure, coudld some explain that? is it someth9ing for firefox.

5 Madbob May 4, 2005 at 11:03 pm
6 The Jedi May 6, 2005 at 6:57 am

Importing RSS feeds is excellent ! Excellent to feed news posted on a board’s website.

7 micksam7 May 29, 2005 at 5:23 pm

Good idea in theory, but it means trouble for me. xD

I have our news from our site offered via RSS, which generally consits of unreleased stuff from neopets.com. A lot of people try to copy our news (meaning copying everything we find and claiming they found it) and post it on their own site. This’ll definately make it easier for them to copy. xD

But, no need for you to worry, just more fun for me. ;) I’ll just add in a randomly scrambled url into our feed’s item descriptions.

Anyway, keep up the work, too bad I can’t afford IPB. o-o I’m stuck with the last open free trial version you guys stuck out. [And thanks for posting security patches on your forums for us who are using old versions]

Also, I was planning something similar for a blog module for a CMS system I’m working on. So we don’t have to link off-site for other user’s blogs and they don’t need to keep track of 3 or 4 different blogs or something.

Also, beware of the feeds that aren’t up to standards. Some of the rss mods on invisionize are actually not to standards. I need to put up my own some time, worked hard to make sure it’s up to the standard. xD

Also, perhaps you should add in some ATOM feed support? :)

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