Mick
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Post by Mick on Feb 25, 2017 18:55:21 GMT
Does anyone know if there is an RSS feed for new posts? The only forum feed that I know about is thestampforum.boards.net/rss/public. That does list new posts, but only gives the thread that the post is in, not the post itself. |
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scb
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Post by scb on Feb 26, 2017 5:54:28 GMT
It would be fun, but AFAIK Proboards doesn't offer anything as such.
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tomiseksj
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What I collect: Worldwide stamps/covers, Cinderellas, Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax Receipts, U.S. WWII Ration ephemera
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Post by tomiseksj on Feb 26, 2017 14:23:46 GMT
Sorry Mick. I found this post from ProBoards Admin on the support forum (I substituted our RSS link for the one he/she had posted):
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Mick
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Post by Mick on Feb 26, 2017 18:36:32 GMT
Oh well. Thanks for checking, Steve.
It seems that RSS is being used less and less, which is a pity for folks like me that still spend a lot of their day in their RSS Reader. ;-)
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madbaker
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Post by madbaker on Feb 27, 2017 3:32:24 GMT
I'm with you Mick. I find Tapatalk for this formum isn't too bad on an IOS device, but the majority of my stamp reading goes through my news reader too.
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scb
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Post by scb on Feb 27, 2017 8:04:36 GMT
Geek and another RSS addict talking here.. The reason for RSS stepping away is because so called push notifications are supposed to take over them. They are a native browser technology - no extra readers or plugins required. For example the Tapatalk version of of proboards sends notifications of likes, @-comments etc using push notifications. Basically every time you see 'this website wants to send you notifications' dialog, you are dealing with request to allow push notifications from that specific website.
The downside of push system is with maximum size of data - only 2 to 4 kilobytes of data can be send in single push. So to certain extend it will never replace RSS, but it is very good at notifying users that 'there's something new in the there, go check the website" .
As for why the switch is happening... Basically it all comes down to money. Smaller data size with push makes it lot cheaper to maintain than RSS systems providing full articles. And the fact that readers who read website content using RSS don't bring any advertising revenue just adds up for the difference. Add up the detail that owner of worlds biggest RSS-provider, and words biggest advertising system happens, and worlds most popular browser happens to be Google you can easily figure out why things are going the way they are.
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