Need RSS for Message Board

[xlargest]

I can't make RSS work, anyone have any luck on it?
I haven't posted on here in years...

Thanks,
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[tpk]

we dont have any rss feeds active for the forum as far as i know of.

good to see you here!

[xlargest]

Hey tpk,

[I]I checked the FAQ and it says there is a RSS Feed, don't know if this is updated or not...however can't get them to work. Thanks!

FAQ:
[B]The administrator may have enabled RSS syndication, this allows you to view newly created threads in guest viewable forums without visiting the board.

The feeds are currently provided in two formats, RSS and RSS v2. The differences are as follows:
•RSS 0.91 - This feed is based on a standard written by netscape and provides a link and the title of the thread.
http://bbs.beastieboys.com/external.php?type=rss
•RSS 2.0 - This feed contains title, author, date and the contents of the first post of the thread.
http://bbs.beastieboys.com/external.php?type=rss2

To add this to MyYahoo click here.

The forums to which this applies can also be limited to specific guest viewable forums by adding another parameter to the URL containing the forumids as follows:
http://bbs.beastieboys.com/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=123

If you would like the content to be generated for multiple forums you can separate the forumids by commas.

[tpk]

yeah those are unfortunately just entries for usage of vbulletin forums (the software used for this forum) in general.

we never did activate these forum RSS feeds as there hasn't really been any apparent demand for it.

i would just go ahead and try and activate one for this general discussion forum but i don't know what type of load that could potentially bring on to the server and we'd perhaps need to try it out first.

either way, the forum is pretty browsable in today's smartphone browsers and there's also the New Posts link at the top horizontal menu you could use to see new posts since your last visit, similar to what the rss feed would give you.

if you're looking for rss to publish on another site, then unfortunately there aren't any other good alternatives.

hope that helps and sorry about the rss troubles!