About the RSS feed...

scumble on 25/2/2005 at 16:06

Is it possible, perhaps, to get an excerpt of the relevant post in there? I have no idea if vB lets you do this, but it might be possible...
It's fine with bookmarks in Firefox, but with a newsreader (like SharpReader) it's nice to have an excerpt to see if the post is going to be of much interest.

Any thoughts Dave?

David on 25/2/2005 at 16:35

Try the RSS2 feed ( (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/external.php?type=rss2) ). I think it was only added to vBulletin in a recent update, I don't recall seeing it from the beginning.

scumble on 25/2/2005 at 16:55

Ah yes, much better :) The trouble is, that doesn't get picked up by Firefox etc. - I guess it's because of how the alternate link tags are defined in the head of the page. In many cases Firefox picks up several options.

David on 25/2/2005 at 17:14

I'll add that into the template when I get home. I manually added the current one as, for some reason, it isn't be default in vB3.

[Edit]Sod that, it only took a second so I've done it. :) [/Edit]

scumble on 25/2/2005 at 23:35

So far so good...

The only criticism I have of the rss2 feed is that it doesn't include information on which particular forum a post came from, which the rss1 feed did. I don't think it shows the last poster either, just the thread starter. Might be more trouble than it's worth to change, but it'd make things just a little bit more perfect!