How to subscribe to the "Announcements Forum" ?

[erich37]

I have tried to "subscribe" to the Announcement-Forum via RSS, but somehow this does not work.

I have not used RSS before and not sure how to do this.

Is RSS the only way to subscribe to a specific XF-Forum-category ?

Which also leads me to the suggestion of "subscribing" to a specific Forum-category without RSS. Any way to build this feature into XF ?

 

[Crazyfruitbat]

Look on the right hand side of the post there is link stating 'watch this thread' - that gives you options about what type of subscription you want to have

 

[Floris]

Go to the frontpage, there's a big ass RSS icon next to each forum.

 

[erich37]

Go to the frontpage, there's a big ass RSS icon next to each forum.

yeah, but subscribing via RSS did not work for me somehow........ is it working properly for you ?

 

[Floris]

My RSS reader accepted it just fine. and when there's new content it will update it with such. yeah.
what are you using, what is not working?

 

[erich37]

I just clicked "subscribe" on the RSS-page. But I did not receive any update on the second post Kier posted into the Announcement-Forum (regarding release date and pricing).

 

[Kier]

Forum RSS picks up new threads.

 

[Floris]

Exactly.

So subscribe to the forum for new threads
Subscribe to the thread where they announce the 24h has started, by watching it.

 

[erich37]

Forum RSS picks up new threads.

aha, so that was the issue.
Thanks for explaining.

Can we have a feature in XF to have users "subscribe" to a Forum, besides "subscribing" to a specific Thread, like e.g. subscribing to the "Announcements Forum" in order to receive updates per e-mail ?

I assume many users have no clue about RSS and how this works.

 

[Paul B]

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-add-the-ability-to-watch-a-forum.3476/