RSS News Feeds for Gaudiya Discussions? - Any interest?

Would there be any interest in having RSS News Feeds available?

So sorry: What is RSS?

It could mean that we are all going to wear brown shorts and learn the words to Vande Mataram or that the forum will support syndication. (Email clients and browsers often have a feature whereby you can grab headlines and excerpts from a site automatically without having to visit). More info on Wikipedia.

In Mozilla Firefox, they are called Live Bookmarks. Thunderbird, Mozilla's e-mail program, also supports RSS feeds.

I've now added a tutorial on how RSS feeds work in Mozilla Firefox, see here.

I'd imagine we could have a news feed with 20 threads that have been last updated? Would that be useful?

Well, I went ahead and did it in any case. Use it if you will. I will.

Lovely! Kudos to DC also for his work on the server issues. Nothing like having some serious brainpower to keep things ticking over nicely.

If there is interest, it is also possible to offer individualized feeds. I can add an extra field in your profile where you can enter the numbers of all forums you want included, a comma-separated list. You'd then be able to fetch the individualized RSS feed by calling for rss.php?member=yourname.

Actually, as I think of it, the only reason someone might want to do that is if he/she were not fond of topics in some categories. If someone has other reasons, or would like to exclude some sections for that reason, please let me know. This would be easy to implement.

For a web based application, I like Bloglines. And it's free!