Mr Lehigh wrote:Is there any plans to incorporate RSS into the site?
Yes, I believe this is a new feature that is supposed to be incorporated into the next version of phpBB. RSS is great and if it is part of the new version, we will try to use it.
Otto, RSS allows you to publish content on your site so that other people can use it on their site in real time. For example, let's say you have an Amtrak site and you want to show all the topics on the RRNET Amtrak forum on your site. We would set up an RSS feed (It's just a text file, really) on the RRNET server (Let's say,
http://www.railroad.net/forums/rss/amtrak.rss ) and then your site uses a script to read the file and insert the topics and links to our forum on your site. This way, your Amtrak site always has a current list of topics from our forum. It adds content to the Amtrak site and brings traffic to RRNET.