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12-05-2005, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27
is this what it's supposed to look like?
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Use (copy/paste) the url after you open that up and put it in your rss tracker of yahoo or whatever.
EDIT: Clarity put the url up in his previous post. Here it is...
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http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/external.php?type=rss
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12-05-2005, 01:28 PM
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Yay! Baseball!
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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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12-05-2005, 05:04 PM
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burned out...
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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:
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.
Last edited by rocketman : 12-05-2005 at 05:12 PM.
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12-05-2005, 11:54 PM
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haha yeah i have no clue what the hell a RSS tracker is. it sounds like its something for when you aren't on BP......so I have no use for it  |
12-06-2005, 12:09 AM
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Oh GOSH! My job is so rewarding!!!
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that's frickin awesome.
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12-06-2005, 01:46 AM
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Originally Posted by R0CK3TM4NN
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. |
12-06-2005, 11:10 AM
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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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