RSS Feeds of Threads

[craigp84]

Hi Guys,

With the RSS feeds of new threads added to the forums, would it be possible to include the text of the post in the RSS body?

This means that i wouldn't have to keep clicking "view site" to see what the thread's about from my rss aggregator.

I've included 2 x screenshots below that hopefully show what i'm after. One is how the unix.com shows up, and one is how another forum subscription (Ubuntu GNU/Linux in this case) shows up.

Unix.com is an excellent site. This feature would just save me some time and repeated, monotonous clicking :-).

Cheers,

-c

[Neo]

Hi Craig,

I have the same issue with the RSS feeds we are importing. Great suggestion. We will look into it and see how to correct this. Thanks again.

[reborg]

Hi Craig,

You should update the url for the UNIX.com feed to be the following:
http://www.unix.com/external.php?type=rss2

[reborg]

Neo, the feeds we are importing explicitly truncate the output after a couple of lines, it is designed specifically to force you to visit the sites.

[craigp84]

Hi Guys, thanks for your efforts

reborg - just the ticket

Thanks again guys,

-c

[Neo]

Originally Posted by reborg

Neo, the feeds we are importing explicitly truncate the output after a couple of lines, it is designed specifically to force you to visit the sites.

Hi Reborg!

That's what I thought as well. I think we need to find different RSS feeds. Maybe we can get suggestions from folks here on their favorite unix/linux feeds?

[craigp84]

See to be honest guys, rss aggregation into the unix.com forums isn't much of a value add for me.

I come to the forums because i like reading the issues and more so the solutions. A news feed doesn't make or break my subscription to here. It's just a little noise to me.

Just my $0.02, there's probably some folks who use this site as their aggregator of news instead of having their own bloglines / greader account. They're gonna be annoyed if you do away with them :-)

-c