Forums and RSS

Well, this flies in the face of what Joel has been saying, but I have added a RSS feed for the NewsGator forums. The feed contains the 20 most recent posts.

I’m not sure this would work well for extremely high-traffic forums, but for the current volume in the NewsGator forums, I think it works pretty well.  At very least it’s handy for me, so I can easily be notified when there’s a new post there.

The forums are using the ASP.NET forums code; if anyone else is using this code, and wants to generate a RSS feed from them, let me know and I’ll be happy to send you the code.

3 thoughts on “Forums and RSS

  1. Mark Gardner

    Joel was saying (among other things) that it’s a mistake to let people receive replies to their posts via e-mail. Since subscribing to the feed means you get *everything*, not just the posts you’re interested in, you don’t have the problem of never seeing other interesting posts.

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