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BN27 - I think your confusion is in where to put the URL, or where to find this "RSS" thing...

If you're using Yahoo! go to your "My Yahoo!" page, and click "Add Content." Then click "Add RSS by URL." Paste the URL given above into the box and click "Add."

If you're using Google, again, from your personalized page, click "Add Content" in the upper left. In the menu that appears on the left, click "Create a Section," which will open a box where you can paste the URL.

Hope that helps.
 
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If you use a customized google homepage (highly recommended, if you have a gmail address its super easy to customize), this is what it's supposed to look like:

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Once again, MAD props to Clarity for doing this. Did the latest version of vbulletin support this natively or what? I have no idea how it works, I just know what it is and how it works.

EDIT: Looks like it only pulls posts that can be viewed w/o a membership...which is understandable, I dunno how it could figure you were a member. After using it a couple days it's mostly been domiated by open discussion posts, heh.
 
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R0CK3TM4NN said:
Did the latest version of vbulletin support this natively or what?
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Yes and know. External.php is theirs, or at least the base was -- I've made changes to it, but what they've coded in is very limited. I dug around on the vb open-source community site, and found some modifications that fit our needs. I could offer RSS feeds for new posts vs. new threads, for example. Or limit feeds to certain forums, etc.

The great thing about vb, is it makes an outstanding base for modification. I don't know anyone who runs it stock. I'm sure many do, but there's just too much you can do with it, particularly now that they've gone to an adaptive plug-in system. Which, for someone like me who does not feel at home with PHP and MySQL, is a dream come true, as we spend far less time hand editing code. Which is really easy the first time you apply a hack. But gets progressively more difficult the more you modify it.
 
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This is an amazing addition. If you have firefox, you can go to bookmarks > manage bookmarks, and create a new live bookmark. If you paste in the url that Clarity posted you'll get a "folder" of live bookmarks from the RSS feed. Hopefully Windows Vista will include RSS feeds for easier access as well.
 
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I just came across this thread today (very cool) and was wondering if there have been any updates or new RSS feeds created since the one mentioned earlier in this thread (posted last year):​


In particular, is there one linked solely to the football forum? Just curious. Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else... I did a few searches and did not see anything.​
 
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Right now I think it just shows links of new threads in any forum you can access without an account. Nothing else has been added, but RSS feeds are kind of the least of BP's concerns right now, all things considered with Clarity's situation and all.
 
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Clarity, I don't know if you have anytime to tinker with this, or if anyone is really using this feature..

it seems to only display OD forum updates and not of the any others.

if you don't feel like messing with it, no worries.. but if its a quick fix, great.
 
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