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!

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 9 months 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?

[@mckrazie Member 16 years, 9 months 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?

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 9 months 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

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 9 months ago]

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/WWW/Feed_Readers/

[@howtogeek Member 16 years, 9 months 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.

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 9 months 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.

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 9 months ago]

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

[@howtogeek Member 16 years, 9 months 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.

[@mckrazie Member 16 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks all!