[davidw]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

How often does it check the rss feed?

I think the RSS gets checked by either A) the time in between refreshes or B) the time setting in the RSS controls itself. A) won't come into play until after B) reaches its set time (which I'm not sure where the setting is located) but I think it is set for 1 hour (or 60x60 seconds). Finding and changing this to a smaller number will speed up the time that it gets updated and cached.

Originally Posted by nightbloom

Yup. Because it is a seperate from the main forum, many ppl link straight to the forum and often miss the news from the main page. I thought this may solve that issue without setting up an RSS feed post, which seems redundant.

I'm thinking that what you and I were viewing was the cached version of the feed. IF this was a recent post/even/etc. that fell within the cached period, that would explain why it was not included, but would not explain why there was only three if you set it to four. As for the RSS went, it most likely is a cache issue, which this might help fix it:

See if you can find a cache folder within your rss folder. CHMOD'ding the RSS folder 777 should fix this, but here's an secondary method.
In your rss folder (preferably), create a folder and chmod it 777. I will name it example in this example.

Then, open up /rss/rss_fetch.inc
Find (about 2/3rds of the way down):

    if ( !defined('MAGPIE_CACHE_DIR') ) {
        define('MAGPIE_CACHE_DIR', './cache');
    }

Replace:

define('MAGPIE_CACHE_DIR', './cache');

with:

define('MAGPIE_CACHE_DIR', '/var/foo/magpie/cache/dir/for/example');

Save and replace/upload.