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orth

Using Layonara RSS with Feedreader
« on: March 26, 2008, 06:24:26 pm »
The forums are equipped with RSS capabilities now for registered users.  It used to be only the forums that were guest viewable were accessible, but I've changed it so you must pass in your login details.  This way you will get notification of new posts in all the forums in which you have access.

Here are some steps for feeding new posts with the popular RSS reader called Feedreader.

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  • Download and install FeedReader.
  • Press F12 to bring up the Options dialog.
  • Under Behaviour on the General tab, set When I click a weblink to Open link in default browser.
    (Optionally set any other preferences you like.)
  • Press OK on the Options dialog.
  • Press F3 to add a new feed.
  • At the top of the application window should be a text entry line, copy and paste the following URL into it:
http://forums.layonara.com/external.php?type=RSS2

  • Press the Ok button to the right of the text entry field.
  • You will be prompted for your username and password, which are your forum credentials.
 

Leanthar

Re: Using Layonara RSS with Feedreader
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2008, 06:27:44 pm »
Thanks Orth. Very useful post!
 

Hellblazer

Re: Using Layonara RSS with Feedreader
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2008, 02:42:08 pm »
Just installed it yesterday, cool little program there.

Hellblazer

Re: Using Layonara RSS with Feedreader
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2008, 07:09:24 pm »
Little ?

I installed it yesterday, it worked fine but today it wont update the feed (ie getting the new post) any Idea why? its set to update every 10 minutes

orth

Re: Using Layonara RSS with Feedreader
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2008, 07:17:30 pm »
Which is the last post you have?
 

Hellblazer

Re: Using Layonara RSS with Feedreader
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2008, 07:26:44 pm »
new character submission guffin. I got it because i manually reinstalled the feed but even before that I wasn't getting the updates today unless I reinstalled the feed.

Hellblazer

Re: Using Layonara RSS with Feedreader
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2008, 10:54:47 pm »
just figured out that it update new threads but not new posts.

OneST8

Re: Using Layonara RSS with Feedreader
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2008, 12:15:00 pm »
Also, for the Unix-y folks out there, you can use "liferea" which is almost identical to FeedReader in look and feel though obviously it's not the same application so the shortcuts are different and so forth. Should be fairly self explanatory though.

Ubuntu/Debian:
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sudo apt-get install liferea


RedHat/Fedora:
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sudo yum install liferea


Gentoo:
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sudo emerge liferea


Mandriva:
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sudo urpmi liferea


Mac OS X (via MacPorts):
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sudo ports install liferea