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Private Message Preview in Notification Emails
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RSS Poster Robot
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I've added a few newsfeeds:
http://www.usmessageboard.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=62
These are viewable by everyone but no posting is allowed. These are here simply to make it easier to find good stories. Limited categories are added thus far until I see how you guys like it.
My post count WILL NOT increase as a result of my name being used by the robot to post stories.
Let me know if you all can see them correctly and what your thoughts are.
Thanks!
I like the idea of a 'news aggregate', (I know, you're all shocked!), however it seems to make the 'new pages' difficult to go through. Is there some way of making a seperate section for these, that we can access, but not have them create 2 or 3 pages of 'new posts?'
If you click the "new posts" button (as many of us do) it floods them with all these news stories. If they could be exempt from popping up this way, it'd be great. Many of us don't check each forum but rather just check to see the most recent threads. It's much more difficult with 50 news stories in there.I'm confused as to what you mean. These stories are supposed to be posted as if it's a regular member posting in a forum. These news forums should appear no differently than any other forum, except that this is the first time I've used sub-forums to seperate the topics.
If you click the "new posts" button (as many of us do) it floods them with all these news stories. If they could be exempt from popping up this way, it'd be great. Many of us don't check each forum but rather just check to see the most recent threads. It's much more difficult with 50 news stories in there.
Cool mang. Keep up the good work, and thanks.Gotcha! And I read your reply too, Kathianne.
I'll look into a way to exempt these from 'new posts. I'll update you guys when I find out more...
The RSS feeds should no longer show up when you click 'new posts'. I had to add an exclude statement so that none of the 4 forums show up (main and 3 subforums thus far).
