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