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RSS Feed Page is all Code?!!

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    Alright, I will fully admit I am a complete newbie to RSS feeds and while I'm trying to learn more... I have a weird error I think.

    When you have an active RSS feed on my forums it just shows a page with a white background and expandable/collasping script.

    Forums: http://forums.hooligans-gaming.net

    Help a brother out!

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    Works fine for me with Firefox and my Google homepage. See this after I added your feed:

    http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/iGoogle.png

    No problem at all. Where are you trying to view this feed?

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    Internet Explorer at my work :(

    So, you can't just view the rss.php page that is linked in the profiles? You need an external feeder to read it?

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    Yes, you need a feed reader. IE7 has one built in, Firefox does too, and you can add RSS feeds to a Google personalized homepage (which is what I took a screenshot of.)

    Autodiscovery works fine for your site. Here's your latest posts feed: http://www.hooligans-gaming.net/forums/rss.php

    Google Reader is a feed reader as well. Try viewing your feed there.
    http://www.google.com/reader/view/

    Really, I can't find any place it's NOT working:
    Google Reader
    http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Hooligans-Google-Reader.png

    Firefox 2
    http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Hooligans-Firefox.png

    IE7
    http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Hooligans-IE7.png

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    I'm sure the problem is that McKrazie is still on IE6, which displays RSS feeds as xml documents, since there's no reader built in.

    Sadly many companies have not upgraded yet.

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    I guess trying to view the RSS feed without a feed reader is kind of like trying to view a HTML page with notepad. You see something other than what's intended because your client doesn't support the content coming your way.

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    If the browser can't handle the feed, just use one of the feed readers from the dmoz list.

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    A workaround would be to use feedburner to burn the feed, because it'll display the friendly page. Would require some theme hacking, I'd think.

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    Thanks all!

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