Is there an RSS feed for hydrogenaudio.org?

No

Short and sweet...

Any plans? or even is it possible?

An RSS feed would be nice!

what uses could an rss feed benefit ha? this is a discussion forum, not a news site or a blog.

Well, it does have a validated news section... and as for usefulness, i have an X-box with an operating system that streams rss feeds live from the web. Would be nice to have some audio related news too.

Since it turned out to be easier than I thought, I've just added some experimental feeds for the validated news and active topics section. They can be accessed by clicking on the little icons next to their titles on the front page.

html linebreaks show up in the description.
otherwise it seems nice.

edit: it should probably also show a few lines of the post.
edit: post date is probably not interesting either.

Great, i like rss feeds.

It seems like there is something going wrong in the description tag of the xml. I use the rssnews plugin for miranda32 and a message looks like this.

The RSS feed is displayed fine here with Opera's integrated feed reader. Thanks for adding this option to the forums

I second JanS' idea of displaying a few lines from the post in the feed.

Best regards,
~ Florian

It would be nice if you could add an image like most RSSs use.
You inset something like this:



I can make proper sized image from the vector version I have if you want to add this.

Can anybody recommend me a Win32 RSS reader? Atom support is an absolute requirement though.
I'm currently using Pears, which is quite nice, minimal and extandable, but would like to hear what others use.

I use SharpReader. Seems pretty good to me, although I haven't tried many other RSS readers to compare.

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Great thing, that new RSS feed. Works fine withe my Firefox Plugin.

'tis great, thanks!

I thought about trying to add a few lines from the posts. Maybe I'll work on that this weekend if I have time. My reader also does seem to grab a logo, but it must be doing it from the site in general or something. I'll see about referencing it in the feed directly.

Also, the feed seems to validate just fine, and displays perfectly here (NetNewsWire), so I'm not sure about any of the problems mentioned above.

The foobar2000 forum is not feeding correctly at the moment. Looking at the Feed Validator results it seems to be because of the ® symbol in the username ®om, who was the last person to post to http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/show.php/showtopic/22426

It seems like the feed creator forgot to convert iso-8859-1 characters to UTF-8 before they're put into the feed.

This is happening again in both the foobar2000 and main HA Active Topics feeds, as there are topics created by ®om in both. Any chance anything can be done about it, as it's very annoying?

If it's not possible to fix the feed, perhaps this username could be changed to something the RSS feed can handle?

Dibrom added the ha logo to the feed.
It uses png though usually other feeds use gif.
Please post if you have problems.

I've added the post bodies to the description field now also.

There might be some issues with this in that it has HTML, but this doesn't cause a problem for any of the newsreaders I've used (NetNewsWire, PulpFiction, and Shrook). It also validates fine. However, maybe some feedback on this would be good. I could remove the html, but it'd be a bit of a hassle, and obviously the output wouldn't look nearly as nice.

Also, I've modified the SQL queries to generate the RSS feeds to be about 40x faster (necessary to grab the post content at a reasonable speed), but due to some of the optimizations there is a slight possibility that the generated feeds may differ from the active topics page. If anyone notices this, please let me know.

A great enhancement... Thanks Dibrom.

Trillian's news plugin must be really buggy or something is wrong.
See Attached image to see what I get.

I'm not sure but something strange has happened to the feed. When I view the validated news feed my font size changes and so does the colour. I'll take a screen shot of it soon.

I think the problem is that Trillian's news reader simply doesn't do any inline html rendering. This is why you were seeing linebreaks before, but other people weren't. Might be better to switch to a different client.

On the other hand, I could setup a separate feed without the post bodies and without any inline html. That'd probably be the easiest thing to do here.

Can you also give me info on what reader you're using?

It's possible that there is either bug in the markup being sent out, or that there is a bug in the rendering of the reader..

I haven't seen any display issues on my end yet though.

Just as an example, this is what the feed is supposed to look like, for those who are having rendering issues:

I think it'd be nice if the Latest News feed showed the actual news post (the first post in the thread) instead of the latest reply. It's a bit uncomfortable trying to guess the news from the topic title and a comment...

I might do this later. Actually I may end up making a couple alternate feeds for things like this, but it's not a high priority right now since it requires more custom coding and there are other things for the site that I'm working on.

firefox plugin ignoring linebreak.

I think that's only in the tooltip mode, when I tried sage before, the full screen view seemed to work.

Dibrom: All the forums use the same Feed Title - Hydrogenaudio Forums - it would be nice if it would use the actual forum name. For example, the one for the fb2k main forum would be "HA - foobar2000" or something like that.

I tried editing the title in Sage (my Firefox RSS reader), but it keeps resetting the title whenever I double-click on the title to display it.

[EDIT] Added 2nd paragraph.

best overal view i think would be one for the news, and one for the lastest topics... maybe split into two different RSS feeds, as not to get the content mixed up...

shouldn't be too difficult with invision..

It already does this. The HA feed embedded into the page itself is the news feed (if you have an RSS aware browser, you should see it), and the feed with the little rss link at is for the active topics.