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# Posted on: 26-Apr-2008 05:44:58   

I just noticed the RSS feed available on the different forums. Very nice.

Question - is it possible to have the RSS feed on the 'active threads' view? That would be nice.

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# Posted on: 26-Apr-2008 10:53:05   

Heh these feeds have been there for years, Wayne sunglasses

It's not really possible to have an rss feed on the active threads as the active threads is a list of threads which have a post in the last x hours, while an rss feed is just a feed with the latest posts. (so the rss feeds are a stream of data with a forward only cursor, the active threads are a bucket of threads which can change but with the same threads, and items will be removed from the active threads (when they're marked done for example), which is not what you want with an rss feed.

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# Posted on: 26-Apr-2008 13:48:10   

I guess my observation powers are lacking! simple_smile

I login and click active threads to see what is happening, what people are posting about. So, rather than have 10 rss feeds (one for every forum group), I was just thinking I would like one to show me all new threads across every forum.

Thanks!

BTW, do you have a road map of LLBLGen past 2.6?

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# Posted on: 28-Apr-2008 17:28:34   

WayneBrantley wrote:

I guess my observation powers are lacking! simple_smile

I login and click active threads to see what is happening, what people are posting about. So, rather than have 10 rss feeds (one for every forum group), I was just thinking I would like one to show me all new threads across every forum.

the downside is that that feed likely gets a new post every several minutes or so. This means that the feed itself is often completely refetched by RSS readers, which causes a lot of extra traffic to the site.

BTW, do you have a road map of LLBLGen past 2.6?

v2.6: beta this week, probably tuesday v3.0: target is Q1 2009. New designer, new template system. Perhaps we can finish stuff much earlier, but it's currently too unclear if that will be the case. The main reason is that our new designer requires transactional graph structures, and we haven't finished these yet, so we don't know how much work it will take before we can build on top of that.

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