TT XML / RSS / Atom feed - news from the forum

The Atom (XML) feed for TT is:

http://www.toytowngermany.com/index.xml

This is similar to RSS/RDF, but a slightly different (better) protocol.

The advantage of subscribing to this feed is that you can keep up-to-date on all the most interesting Toytown chat without having to wade through every single post. Indeed, you don't even have to visit the TT website at all. Instead you can simply read the extracts via your favourite news reader.

You can view this feed using your favourite RSS/XML client. Toytown Recommends the web-based client: Google Reader

If you must have a standalone client, try: FeedReader

What the heck is Atom/RSS/RDF/XML anyways?

Atom/RSS is a way of keeping up-to-date with the latest news from lots of different websites without having to visit each of those websites individually one after another. This is known as news "aggregation".

What you do is you install an Atom/RSS client (say FeedReader) onto your computer (or better, you open an account with a web-based client such as BlogLines) and then you select all of the "feeds" (i.e. different websites) that you want to follow.

Your Atom/RSS client will then continually check those other websites for new information (news sites such as BBC News or CNN for example). All your news is then compiled for you and merged into a list in single window. In these modern times where information overload is such a problem, RSS makes keeping up-to-date *much* easier.

Put some salt on it. Stick a fork in it. Subscribe today!

Hi Toytown techies,

More and more web pages are plublishing RSS feeds of their pages. Any chance of this being done for Toytown?

Thread merged by admin.

Isn't the XML feed good enough?

I was thinking more for the chat forums. I was originally thinking of an RSS for the veiw new posts but don't think that is technically possible. But I think feeds for each forum category would be a good idea. This functionality is being built into some new forum software packages e.g community server

Check out the lite view, its well formed, and it should be trivial to code up a quick conversion component as a php script or something.

gentlemen, this website is for an ENGLISH speaking crowd...sheeesh..

Who decided that "sports" is a pertinent category? yeesh. This forum must be run by guys.

I wouldn't mind a feed just for the articles on the home page. I don't see a need for one on the forums, the "read new posts" button does the job nicely.

Here's the TT XML Feed.

Stick it in Bloglines and it looks like this.

So far 17 enlightened folks have subscribed.

Why haven't you?

Go to Bloglines. Register an account. Subscribe to TT.

Your life will never be the same again.



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I find it much easier to just use the Sage module for Firefox and read my rss feeds directly in the browser. One less account to worry about. I rarely have time to read these things when I am on the road so portability is not really a concern.

Has anyone else noticed the XML feed of recent chat topics hasn't worked in over a week?
I have My Yahoo pointed here:
http://www.toytowngermany.com/index.xml

but that page seems to be choking on some image.

Yup. My (Wizz) reader reports "An invalid XML was returned from http://www.toytowngermany.com/index.xml"

The problem has been fixed.

Grrrrrrrrrr. Working on new PC - cannot find the setting to switch off the annoying pop-up that says "RSS Feed found on this page". I assume an Explorer setting but cannot find it. Anyone help?

Hi! Since some weeks the rss feed doesnt work any more. Any idea? Thanks

Works here. I've tried with a PC - Internet Explorer 6 SP1 + hotfixes, and a Mac - Safari 2.0.3.

Edit: Actually I see what you mean. All the stories are ancient.

Yes. Last message on RSS-feed is from 2006-05-25!

It's ok now!

The feed doesn't work since 2 weeks.

The last response I got from the feed, which was today (Aug 3) was an error:

My last successful update was July 13

Is this working at the moment? Tried punching in the URL into my phone, but didn't seem to work... any suggestions?

Seems like the RSS feed is stuffed again (since November in fact, as the last update I am seeing is "Understanding Benefit Fraud in Germany"...). Any ideas mod-people?

The TT XML feed has been kaputt since November.

It just got fixed though.

http://www.toytowngermany.com/index.xml

Stick the above link in your Google Reader.

Improvements and additional regional-specific feeds coming soon.

coming back to this super-old thread, what gives with the RSS feeds?

the general http://www.toytowngermany.com/index.xml seems to be updated
but region specific feeds like http://www.toytowngermany.com/frankfurt/index.xml have their last post stuck somewhere in Nov. 2006

Help please