Keeping up to date with the forums

Keeping up to date with the forums

steveh123 25 Jan 2010 20:14

Hi,

I've tried out the rss feed with the forums and it's pretty good.

I've set it up in Outlook and also in Google Reader. You get the full entry, not just the first couple of lines (which you get with some rss feeds). That means you only need to go into the forum if you want to comment.

I can't see a way to get posts to email themselves to me, but the rss feed is good enough that I don't think that's necessary.

---

steve
www.freeformgames.com

Re: Keeping up to date with the forums

Mike Snowden 04 Mar 2010 19:31

Now I'm going to have to pick one of Outlook (work), IE or FireFox, and a particular computer to read RSS through. My current policy of "all posts go through one account with multiple viewing machines" only works with the forum view.

Or can you view that post-threadded too?

Re: Keeping up to date with the forums

steveh123 04 Mar 2010 22:41

I use a combination of Outlook and Google Reader. I use gmail at home by preference, so I use Reader (which I can use anywhere I have an internet connection, of course). I use Outlook at work, so I've set up the rss feeds in there.

From what I can tell (and I've not explored this in detail), each of the threads/categories has their own rss feed, but I've just gone for the main one.

I haven't tried adding the rss feed to Firefox or IE, but purely because I haven't needed to.

I've got no idea if that helps - it's just what I do!

---

steve
www.freeformgames.com

Re: Keeping up to date with the forums

steveh123 04 Mar 2010 22:56

And there's more…

I've just received an email with your forum post in it. Investigating further, it's because I'm "watching" this page. (As creator, I get the "honour" of watching the whole site. It's quite useful when it tells me that someone has amended a page, I'm less bothered about the forums.)

Anyway, if you enable watching (which happens automatically if you edit a page - I'm less certain if that happens if you make a forum post) then it'll keep you updated by email.

steve

---

steve
www.freeformgames.com