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vrvince
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September 19, 2019
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No RSS feeds?

  • September 19, 2019
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Are there any RSS feeds for the new forums? Or plans to re-enable them?

I monitored feeds in Netvibes on several forums, along with dozens of other content feeds, using Netvibes. It's like Feedly.

 

It's very inefficient to have to visit a forum to browse the topics to see if anything relevant is touched upon.

RSS feeds are disappearing from many sites; is the entire world's productivity decreasing as a result?

I can see a site that depends on eyeball add revenue to do this, forcing you to the site. 

But a pure support contenet site like Adobe forums is not such a site.

 

p.s. You actually use the RSS icon in top-right user menue for "My Follows"...

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    Dave Merchant
    Legend
    September 19, 2019

    Yes there are feeds - for each board and each thread - but Adobe decided to hide all the visible links to them.

     

    You'll have to look in the source code, or your browser's "page info" tool. The URLs are not predictable, for example the feed for this thread is

     

    https://community.adobe.com/havfw69955/rss/message?board.id=community-help&message.id=54896

     

    which of course has no relation to the message number (10619036) in the HTML version. Go figure.

     

    Feeds can only be accessed for public pages, they don't give any information on who said what, and the formatting is completely jacked, but at least you get the whole page in one go - which is impossible via the website!

     

      trashcaneron
      trashcaneron
      Inspiring
      September 20, 2019
      Why did they do this? I'm trying to come up with a reasoning for this bad design of the new "Community" vs. the just fine Forum and I'd love to hear your take.. Making it harder for users?
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      Dave Merchant
      Legend
      September 27, 2019
      The servers running the old Jive forums couldn't cope with the traffic. The new site supposedly can, but it was implemented in a... cost-effective manner. Apparently by someone whose only inspiration was their Facebook timeline. There are supposed to be regular updates, so keep complaining about whatever bugs you and maybe they'll take heed.
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