LostKnightsRPG.org

Any chance we can do an RSS feed? This would be hot. And it would help with my 'offline internet' experience.

wtf?

Cheyne, you are old. RSS would be cool.

I have not used them much so I am vague on what all they can do but how would it work for the board... would it cover all posts??

They will have sex with you.

ideally it would either cover all posts or there would be a separate one for each forum or topic. but it's really up to steven based on A) if he can do it and B) if he wants to do it, which he may not have the time to put in to it even he knows how, or it could be really hard.

cheyne: welcome to web 2.0

Unless I can find some sort of plug-in, this probably won't happen. I don't know enough php to program it myself.

a quick google search showed me a number of articles about how to set one up, I'm not sure about a plugin but it looks like html can do it. I guess.

http://www.programmers-corner.com/tutorial/67

does this help?

I think it may. I'll have to poke at code later, when I actually have access to the files on the server (ie: when I am not at work), but it looks like that page has the instructions for creating a feed.

This of course assume that you all have RSS readers, which you may. I don't know. I don't use one myself. :P

I do. I love RSS. I'm trying to find an extension for thunderbird that stores my rss feeds offline. cause that would be nice, and it would be an effective backup of the internet as I care about it.

speaking of backing up files...
can someone do that? maybe while they sleep or something? we really should do it every week or two, just to prevent a repeat of the past.

OK, so what exactly is RSS and how does it work???

Ok, since you asked.

RSS feeds are that little orange icon you've seen in the address bar a few times. Google homepage and standalone RSS readers can accept these feeds, and will show you updates to the websites that broadcast them like email. I'm using mozilla thunderbird for both its integrative email capabilities and its uses as an RSS feed reader. I also plugged in Lighting for Thunderbird and its a robust calendar system that helps me stay disorganized.

The long and the short of it is RSS feeds simplify web browsing immensely. With the summary version on google homepage, you can surf a couple dozen sites for updates in about ten minutes. With mozilla it's about the same, but you get the front end of the websites as well, unless you turn that off.

I find it enjoyable and to quote a buzzword "high yield".

A feed for LoKni wiould show new posts immediately in an RSS feed, and logging in or out would be unnecessary unless a reply was in order. This shouldn't increase or decrease participation, what I imagine it doing for me is that I wouldn't have to wait around for a gmail notification to keep track of updates, and also it would cut down on my spam!

Cool I like the sound of that