Re: RSS feature in the forum
Reply #4 –
The utility of RSS is to integrate feeds from many different sources, usually corresponding to our interests, so we can access new content from a variety of sources just at one place instead of needing to go at a daily basis to hundred of different web addresses.
For that, a feed aggregator, I use Netvibes for long time ago. It allows me to create how many tabs I want where I can group feed widgets of the same kind of content. For example, clicking in the tab "Bicycles" I can read each day all the new content from a variety of bicycle related websites and blogs or even forums.
Netvibes is a very graphical and customizable kind of thing so some of you more concerned with "text, no images" will probably don't like it.
At one particular time, still with D&D, I decided to add the forum there. Honestly I didn't like it because the idea of a forum is not just to read but also to post, something that you can't do through a RSS feed, and kept maintaining D&D out of the RSS system as a stand alone website.
So, basically I read DnD at DnD and almost everything else from my daily web routine at Netvibes.
Besides, I think, not sure, that my traffic will be just between my pc and netvibes, so outsiders can't make analysis that I didn't asked them to do. Course netvibes can but, at least, they're French not from the land of NSA.
There are certainly other products that does the same but I only know this one.
A matter of attitude.