How do YOU keep up with forums?

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So, I have to ask.

I’m more familiar with the old school BBS-style Bulletin Board System, and not all these whizbang online forums. I’ve never found them to be as useful or easy to keep up with.

So, I’m curious, how do you guys keep up with forums and communication?

I have RSS stuff, which I could facilitate as well. But I couldn’t find any RSS feeds on this forum engine.

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Well…

  1. Open tab with forum

  2. Read stuff

  3. Once it read - periodically see if there’s something new (you’ll see it on main page right away).

That’s it! :upside_down_face:

P.S. I believe there was some RSS stuff here before, maybe admins turned it off?
Usually things move so fast on forum, that there’s just no need for that anyway, unless you want to track something specific like announcement thread maybe…

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The post volume is fairly low on most of the Linux forums. I just use the “Latest” view. It shows all the topics listed by date/time. There really aren’t that many topics.

I also don’t read every topic. Only the topics that seem like something I am interested in or could help with.

If you try to go in and out of all the categories it is super painful.

You can get an rss feed of the entire forum or a specific category. I don’t find it to be a great way to interact with the forum though since it isn’t really organized properly.

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Yeah, That’s kind of what I’m starting to do. I put the forum in my Ferdium so I have it consistently available, so we’ll see. :slight_smile:

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Then this forum has New and Unread views, they are the ones I use mostly. After I’ve seen them, I can go to the Latest view to see if I had missed anything that looks interesting or useful.
And of course there is a button in the upper right corner where you’ll see messages where you are already involved.

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You can use Discourse as a mailing list,if you prefer that.

There is also an official Discord (Hub) mobile app that is super useful if you are on more than one forum.

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I just load it up in the web and as mentioned above check the latest and unread. The only other thing which is easy to see is if I have a notification check it

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I usually skip Latest.

First I check Unread to see new posts on topics I follow.

Then I check New to find any new topics to follow.

The different tiers of following a topic (and setting a reminder) are super useful too.

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https://forum.endeavouros.com/posts.rss

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Easily, I’ve bookmarked forum/latest, then scan the titles for the topics that apply or interest me.
https://forum.endeavouros.com/latest

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Try adding a “.rss” to any category or group title URL or whatever they are called.

Important Notifications is: https://forum.endeavouros.com/c/important-notifications/125

RSS feed is https://forum.endeavouros.com/c/important-notifications/125.rss

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