Posted: 3/6/2026 11:10:21 AM EDT
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My RSS feeds died a while ago and I just now noticed I wasn't getting updates on it. Examples: https://www.ar15.com/forums/rss.html?b=1&f=5 AR15.Com - General Discussion https://www.ar15.com/forums/rss.html?b=1&f=189 AR15.Com - Homeschooling & Parenting https://www.ar15.com/forums/rss.html?b=8&f=65 AR15.Com - South Carolina Looks like they died November 15. Is there a new URL to use for RSS or did RSS just get disabled? |
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Originally Posted By NvrBrdWes: RSS was not getting used enough to be maintained so it was sunsetted last year.  But yeah, there's no sense in maintaining it if no one is going to use it. |
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Originally Posted By Subnet: RSS is (and always was) incredibly useful, and it's sad that the modern Internet more or less forgot about it. I say this a lot, about a lot of things in tech. But yeah, there's no sense in maintaining it if no one is going to use it. Forgive my slight bit of pedantic retort, I was one using it.  I also do understand cost/benefit of it going away since I was probably one of 5 total who used it. |
Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.”
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Originally Posted By turtle2472: Forgive my slight bit of pedantic retort, I was one using it. I also do understand cost/benefit of it going away since I was probably one of 5 total who used it. Originally Posted By turtle2472: Originally Posted By Subnet: RSS is (and always was) incredibly useful, and it's sad that the modern Internet more or less forgot about it. I say this a lot, about a lot of things in tech. But yeah, there's no sense in maintaining it if no one is going to use it. Forgive my slight bit of pedantic retort, I was one using it. I also do understand cost/benefit of it going away since I was probably one of 5 total who used it. |
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
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Originally Posted By Subnet: YEARS ago (2010 maybe?), before there was an official RSS feed, I wrote an app in PHP that scraped the site and created an RSS feed you could subscribe to. It made the EE nicer for me, at the time. It was mildly popular for a minute, among fellow nerdy members. So…. I was actually thinking of how I could scrape the site after this thread confirmed it was dead. I won’t. I’ll rely on other things. Just means less time image for me though. Probably better that way. ETA: :grumble: It should have said "less time in GD for me". |
Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.”