A couple of new features - RSS and Submit Tools

[j]

I've added a couple of new features to the forum. RSS feeds have been available but it was kind of hard to figure out how to link to them. Now you can find this icon at the top right of each forum's thread list:

Just clicking on it will give you the raw feed, though in Firefox it will find the feeds for you automatically, and you can click the button in the browser address bar to add it. If you use another reader for RSS feeds, you can right click on the button and "Copy Shortcut/Hyperlink" to get an URL that looks like this (This one is for B&S forum):

http://www.styleforum.net/external.p...s2&forumids=11

Paste this into the New Feed form on your RSS reader (follow its instructions) and you will get the latest however-many threads, up to 15, for that forum updated every 10 minutes (IIRC).

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

Basically it is a raw feed of the last x number of entries from a forum, blog, etc. that a reader can then format into something you can read, along with all your other favorites.

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The other new feature is the "Submit Tools" link at the top of each thread. This allows you to add the site to a bunch of popular bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Facebook, Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc. I noticed in the web logs that a bunch of users have us bookmarked in del.icio.us, so I figured I'd add this and make it easier for people to add threads they like to watch or find interesting.

 

[rnoldh]

Thanks, sounds good.

 

[goalaso]

I realize this is old, but it seems to be broken for anything other than the entire SF or "Recent Changes"... I believe there used to be a way to select subthreads?