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Very Nice!!

INSTALLED

Some questions:

[S]1 - Where is the template defined for displaying the feed content on the abouttoday.php page? I would like to move the [Start/Join Discussion] button to the bottom of the cell.[/S]
figured it out - see below

2 - On the Home page "Upcoming Events", is it possible to display the feed headlines in multiple columns? Two or maybe three cols would be nice. Most headlines are short and punchy and they don't need all that room.

3 - Is there a way for an admin to skip over some items in a feed, like a news article that's off-topic?

4 - What is the necessity of "Force Feeds Update"? Can't that be a query in admincp on a feed-by-feed basis?

5 - I would like to move the admincp menu for "About Today" next to the RSS Feeds menu item. Got a quick way to do that?

6 - Abouttoday page seems to default to "List View" and I prefer "Summary View". Can there be a way to force this in AT's admincp?

Some minor Suggestions:

1 - Preview Feed button (like vB's RSS Manager has)

2 - Replace the Edit Feed and Delete Feed blocks with a Feed list and Add/Edit/Delete buttons

3 - Optionally allow title-less feed items to be skipped.

4 - When editing an existing RSS Feed, the button at the bottom of the form ought to say "Save Feed" not "Edit Feed".

5 - In the Admincp > About Today > Settings > Reason Section is Disabled, "maintenance" is spelled wrong.

6 - The "Get Feed Now" button doesn't really "get" the feed. I'm guessing it just displays what is in the cache. Rename it "Display Articles". OR you could add real "Get Feed Now" functionality to that button.

Some Major Suggestions

1 - When clicking a [Start a Discussion] button (to start a new thread), it would be nice to optionally allow the user to specify the forum where he wants the new thread started. It could be a simple form with a forum drop down list AND a small edit area where he can append his (optional) remarks below the feed content.

2 - And while I'm dreaming, I would like to be able to have 2 of these apps on my site. One for news feeds and one for opinion feeds. Short of tweaking all the base files to avoid variable overlaps and database conflicts, it would be nice if this could do it automatically.
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3 - Short of multiple instances of AT, implementing your Category concept for rss feeds could achieve nearly the same result. But I'd like to be able to display each category of feeds separately on forumhome.

Feedburner Problems

Have a couple RSS2 feeds that abouttoday doesn't seem to want to parse. The vB RSS Manager does parse them properly. (I was using a bot before to post threads in my forums from these feeds). Any suggestions or fixes?

Update: I'm guessing the issue is Feedburner as I see others here are having a problem too. Both IE and vB RSS Mgr handle them just fine.

I tried experimenting with the available feedburner links and for one feed I was able to find a working alternative feedburner feed address that worked. For the other, no luck. The problem feed (which is only offered in feedburner format):
http://feeds.feedburner.com/wdtprs/ZDys (G-rated)

One useful tip: you can submit a blog url to feedburner and it will scan the code for other feed types and give you their url. That helped me in another case.

Of course, the best solution is for abouttoday to parse fb feeds regardless of the format.
You outclass VB on handling the other feeds.


Environment _________________________
vB 3.6.5
PHP 5.2.0-8+etch1
MySQL Version 5.0.32-Debian_7etch1-log
Server API cgi/fast-cgi