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Better visibility for RSS

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on 03-03-2009 04:14 AM

Lithium provides great possibilities for RSS feeds. With Advanced Search, anyone can create custom feeds with practically no limitations.

However, many users never find the feeds as they are hidden in the Options or Search Options dropdowns.

How about making the RSS logo prominently visible in every place where you can create a feed?

These should include feeds from

- community level (new topics / new posts)

- board level (new topics / new posts)

- post level (replies)

- search options (custom feed based on search terms)

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JuhisH, I agree with you. When we have the option to subscribe to content with RSS, why hide it and make it hard to find, especially when RSS is a common action an end user would look for. This is a question we ask ourselves quite often. Thanks for bringing this up!

Social Bookmarking for all Community content (opt-in)

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on 03-26-2009 10:37 AM

We have identified that allowing users to actively share their own content or that of other members could help grow the community and add value for our members. Having seen the social bookmarking icons in the Ideas tool, how can we utilize this within all threads, or better yet, all posts?

I envision this as either part of the signature, i.e., check box "Add Social Bookmarking Bar to my Signature," or embedded in the User sidebar of each post (again, maybe an opt-in feature). Alternately, if not available on a post level, add the bar automatically to the title-bar area (on right?) of the first post in a thread. This perhaps would be a community-level auto-opt-in setting with an opt-out checkbox for the message composer.

This is about choices on how to share content - both at the community level and the thread/post level.

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I saw this one coming

. Good idea, no doubt. In order to be consistent with how we share the social bookmarking bar "share this" in ideas and blogs, we will have a similar way for adding the bar to forums. Question for you all: Does it make sense to have the "share this" option for all posts or only for the root message (thread)? I think the latter makes more sense.