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It'd be nice if the forum had a working RSS feed: the 'Subscribe' button yields an RSS feed without dates in the XML, so all items come up as 'today' in feed readers...
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Argh, and since Luigi's recent post it doesn't validate at all anymore, to the point that liferea doesn't accept it anymore :S

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi? ... %2Frss.php
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.. and they also link to the first page of each topic, even if the post is not on the first page.
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Thanks for bringing this to my attention - the RSS plugin is pretty old and be from before a software update. I will try to look into this after the weekend!
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Okie dokie, updated the RSS plugin, and it validates!
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Much better, great thanks!
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Hrm, encoding errors again - i guess i should check if this is still present in the newest upstream version and submit bugreports/patches there :/.
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Blast. I can look into a different RSS plugin...
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nathan wrote:Blast. I can look into a different RSS plugin...
Which one are you using now?
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Simple RSS - http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 0&t=748885
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Looks like I fixed it at http://linuxmusicians.com/rss2.php - looks like I don't have permission to overwrite rss.php .
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Thanks raboof - updated the file.
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