Subscribing to TheBroth’s RSS feed
February 6th, 2007 in New Features · By Dolph aka Zaphod BEach user can now subscribe to an RSS feed of the latest snapshots, comments to tracked snapshots, comments to subscribed blogs, and comments to your own blog. Read on to learn how.
For those intending to use external software to subscribe to the feed, the URL is
http://www.thebroth.com/feed/notificationsXXXXX.xml (XXXXX corresponds to your user id). On your profile page, just mouse over the orange RSS icon and copy that URL into your reader.
Desktop Feed Readers
Modern browsers such as Firefox 1.5+, IE 7+ and Safari2+ can handle RSS feeds such as TheBroth’s, but in general desktop software for feed reading offer a lot more features such as images, audio/visual notifications, and much more.
Recommended feed reading software for your desktop (all of these are free):
- Feedreader (Windows)
- Vienna (OSX)
- Liferea (Linux)
If you know of any other good feed reading software or can think of anything else that should be included in the feed, please mention it in the forum.
Important: Please don’t set your feed reader to check for updates at an interval any shorter than 5 minutes. Doing so will not be of any benefit as the feed data are currently cached with a lifetime of 5 minutes.
Subscribing to the feed using your browser
To subscribe to the feed using Firefox 1.5+
Visit your profile page. A ‘feed’ logo should appear in your browser’s address bar (it’s the little orange logo):
Click on the orange icon and click on the ‘Subscribe Now’ button that appears on the next page.
A dialog box asking you to ‘Add live bookmark’ will appear.
Click ‘add’ or ‘ok’ (the actual text can depend on what OS you’re using).
A new entry should appear on the bookmarks toolbar folder:
You can click on this to see the feed content.
To subscribe to the feed using IE7+
Visit your profile page. A ‘feed’ logo should appear below your browser’s address bar (it’s the little orange logo):
Click on the orange icon and click on the ‘Subscribe to this feed’ link that appears near the top of the next page.
Click ‘Subscribe’ on the dialog box that appears.
To view the feeds that IE7 is subscribed to, press CTL+SHIFT+J.
To subscribe to the feed using Safari 2+
Visit your profile page. A ‘feed’ logo should appear in your browser’s address bar (it’s the blue ‘RSS’ logo):
Click on the ‘RSS’ icon to view the feed, and then click on the ‘Add Bookmark…’ link that appears in the sidebar.
