RSS Import System

[FASherman]

I hate to give the Devil his due, but one of the features I really like in IPB 2.1 is the RSS Import System.

What it does is this. I define a newsfeed for a forum, how often to check it and how many new feed to process.

Every X hours, that feed is checked. For each new Y feed, a new topic is created in that forum.

This movie shows how its administered.
This one shows what the user experiences.

I would kill for something like this in vBulletin.

I'm willing to pay to help get this one started.

[shortbus1662]

already have it. Check out the "article bot"

[FASherman]

Gosh, I didn't see that listed in the 3.5 Plugins forum. :ermm:

To be fair, I didn't know that hack existed for 3.0.X, but I'm still willing to donate to make it a priority for the author to port it to 3.5 as a plugin.

[shortbus1662]

Sorry. I'm sure it won't take too long.

I know you were looking in the 3.5 Plugins forum, but since you said,

in IPB 2.1

I figured you weren't aware of it at all...

[Martin]

Ok, that's too funny. Matt claims that the RSS import feature is his own idea, but it's been a vBulletin Hack for nearly a year.

Too funny.

[shortbus1662]

who's Matt?

[Martin]

The Reverse Engineer who owns IPB

[Jenta]

here's another vote for this
would be nice if it came as a standard feature
would be bad for the competitors to have that edge

[Curll]

I'm looking for it, too.

[Jenta]

sadly this nice feature wont make it into 3.5
/me gives the devil his due