Forum Suggestion: enable RSS feeds on the forum. I had a quick look and it appears it's already built into some versions of Vbulletin so it probably just needs enabling in the admin panel.

RSS allows visitors to check for new forum posts with an rss client, add sheffield forum into web based aggregators, or use live bookmarks in our chosen flavour of browser (making it easier to see when certain forums and sub forums contain new posts).

An RSS feed usually only provides a snippet of information and then redirects the user to the web page should they wish to read further (ergo the site won't lose hits/advertising revenue through enabling RSS and the use of RSS will, more than likely, cause a small increase in website hits). A typical RSS feed is only a few lines of formatted text with no graphics so it uses next to no bandwidth.

Pluses: Very easy to implement, increased hits, ease of use, summary of posts delivered via rss clients, ability to use live bookmarks, gives users the ability to add sheffield forum feed into personalised webpages (e.g. Igoogle).

Negatives: Very tiny (negligible) increase in bandwidth.

Sounds very impressive, although I haven't a clue what it means.
Bit too technical for me and I'm lost in the translation.

Sounds very impressive, although I haven't a clue what it means.
Bit too technical for me and I'm lost in the translation.

It means you can monitor the forum for new topics without actually having to visit. It's handy for a lot of websites, like BBC news headlines.

>> OUTCOME OF SUGGESTION <<<

This has been enabled.

You will see the familiar RSS icon at the top right of each forum, in the blue bar.

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/siteimages/rss-arrow.gif

This will show you the last 15 threads (along with their entire 1st post) for each forum you subscribe to.

We will test this level of RSS integration for a while and then review further additions and alterations in due course.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Hi,

I have been looking for an RSS feed from the forum and came across this thread.
Either its been removed or I can't find it - can you help?

Anyone???????

Can anyone confirm why the RSS has been removed from the forum please? rather than just ignoring new posts...