Do you use RSS? Read Priuschat via a RSS Reader!

[DaveinOlyWA]

the "view new posts since last visit" works so well i dont
feel the need for the stream. but i am on a dial up
connection and therefore i wouldnt want something like
that taking up any of my "not so ample" bandwidth.

[Bill60546]

I agree with Wolfman. Come, enter, read, post, leave. I get 80 emails a day; and I'm not a network administrator.

Also, please remember that most of the world does not have a degree in IT. Keep it simple, accurate and easy. Just because its possible does not mean it should be done or is needed. A good example is the Prius; the more user friendly it became, the more people bought it. :clap:

I, for one, would like more emoticons! :multi:

[pkjohna]

Originally posted by T_S_Kimball
My problem with using RSS is twofold:
2) I don't believe there is an RSS reader for Solaris 8 (I use a Sun at work)
--TSK

The Opera browser has versions for several operating systems including Mac and Solaris: http://www.opera.com/features/index.dml?pl...latform=solaris

The mail handler is the application that handles RSS feeds. I've only been using RSS feeds for a short while but they're quite handy for a variety of news sources -- I find it much easier than wading through a standard news portal and I can skim more categories than I would otherwise have time for.

I'll definitely give RSS a shot for PriusChat and report back on how it works out.

[pkjohna]

Originally posted by pkjohna
I'll definitely give RSS a shot for PriusChat and report back on how it works out.

Woops! I just tried the RSS feed link that Danny gave and it seems to be a dead link. Is this a future feature? I thought from Danny's post that it was available now. Or maybe this RSS implementation is different than the other RSS feeds I'm already using and my reader doesn't recognize it? I'm pretty ignorant of the technology so I'm not sure...

[oxnardprof]

After finding out what RSS is, I would change my vote to NO, I would not use it. The closest vote I had was "Yes, if I knew what it was." this should have been I don't know.

Anyway, I prefer just going to the board, and I do not want notifications of new posts to the board. I get too much 'stuff' as it is in my email(s).

[Danny]

It is a dead link - there wasn't much interest in it so I've taken it down.

I'll let you know if I ever put it back up.

[Danny]

Tell you what - I'll put the RSS feed back up for the forums if you'll put together a quick & dirty explanation/How-To on using RSS with PriusChat.

Deal?

[tcooper185]

Apparently Yahoo has a RSS reader that can be built into your personal My Yahoo page...I'm not sure if PC would be compatible with that, but it would be interesting to see topics mixed into my news and entertainment update on my home page.

Tim

[m1j1tc0rn]

awesome, please enable rss.
i use xp media center late at night and view all my news and email via media center using rss and pop3.
if you enable this, i will still visit the site during the day and use RSS like a madman.
i would like a link to the direct xml, please.

thanks,
-r

[pkjohna]

Apparently Yahoo has a RSS reader that can be built into your personal My Yahoo page...I'm not sure if PC would be compatible with that, but it would be interesting to see topics mixed into my news and entertainment update on my home page.

Tim

Tim,

Thanks for the tip on Yahoo; I knew they had RSS feeds but hadn't noticed that you could had them to the home page. I just added PC to my Yahoo home page and it works just fine! All that shows is the subject with no content so you have to click through to read the content.

Using "My Yahoo" (or any other compatible portal, I haven't heard of any others but then I haven't looked for them) would seem to address an earlier concern about keeping synched from home and work. This way PC is another news source and you can see the equivalent to PC's "View posts since last visit" but you still have to visit PC to actually read the content.

When I view the PC RSS feed in my Opera browser I actually see the subject/topic just like an e-mail with the content in the preview pane. It will be much easier for me to keep up with the content this way but I can still easily reply by clicking the link at the bottom of the post which takes me directly to that post on PC in a new browser window. It's the best of both worlds.