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Siu Blue Wind
01-02-07, 01:45 PM
So I go refresh and see all these orange squares on the main page!!

Whaddup??

the wonginator
01-02-07, 01:47 PM
RSS methinks. you can subscribe to your subforum now.
lodi781
01-02-07, 01:47 PM
the site was messed up for me too this morning, don't know what happened but it works now...

Siu Blue Wind
01-02-07, 01:51 PM
RSS methinks. you can subscribe to your subforum now.

What? Explain please? :o
the wonginator
01-02-07, 02:01 PM
What? Explain please? :o

basically, you can now get a feed. you use a feed reader, such as google reader, and subscribe. when the thing you subscribe to gets updated, it is read through your feed reader. kind of like a universal subscription service.
Siu Blue Wind
01-02-07, 02:02 PM
oh.
snowy
01-02-07, 02:20 PM
Yes Siu its a RSS Feed.
Maelstrom
01-02-07, 02:23 PM
http://bikeforums.net/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=248

Judging by the linky, rss for surely.

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Oh well it takes out the fun stuff...type=rss2
Joe Gardner
01-02-07, 03:33 PM
RSS is amazing, I'm sure its new to 99% of the forum members, but I think 2007 is going to be the year of syndicated content.

I fallow 7 individual forums here with RSS. I have a total of 18 blogs and forums in my RSS reader. I use NewsFire (http://www.newsfirerss.com/) for my RSS reader, you can find a list of good RSS readers here: http://blogspace.com/rss/readers

I also use RSS for my screensaver. The last 15 threads created in the mods corner continually rotate in RSS visualizer (http://homepage.mac.com/wysz/iblog/C47259402/E2009854725/index.html).

Lastly, I use RSS to show the last 15 threads on bikeforums.net on the bikeforums.com domain. If you have a blog or website, you can easily include bikeforums.net content on your webpage. I'll post more information on how to do that in the future. I'm still learning the RSS ropes. :)
KingTermite
01-02-07, 03:35 PM
So I go refresh and see all these orange squares on the main page!!

Whaddup??
What scares you? The color orange, or the shape called square?
Mr. Gear Jammer
01-02-07, 03:55 PM
So I go refresh and see all these orange squares on the main page!!

Whaddup??

Have no clue, but i did notice them quite quickly.
Bizurke
01-02-07, 04:08 PM
You can also use firefox to as a feed reader with it's "Live Bookmarks" feature. You won't get as much to the minute information as you will with a standard reader or google reader but it can still come in handy. Using live bookmarks and the bookmarks toolbar folder can keep it clean looking and easy to access.


For example.

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1823/feedio1.th.jpg (http://img146.imageshack.us/my.php?image=feedio1.jpg)