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The URL could be something like:
http://www.runningahead.com/forums/post/d72bb32910c54ab893d436b725c1462f/rss
And there should be a <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="%threadtitle%" href= %feedurl%"> in the <head> section for easy subscribing.
Do not attempt.
RSS feeds require a lot of resources. A better solution is to allow you to subscribe to threads and you'll receive a notification, probably via email, whenever there's a new post. I'm planning to add this when I redo the forum code.
Or by Twitter?
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RSS feeds, done correctly, do not require a lot of resources. First, the server can tell the client how often to check. Second, they are higly cacheable, both on the server level and the HTTP level. IOW, since they can always be a "bit" behind, you can stash the complete reply in memcached or the like and serve the requests directly from there w/o a single SQL query.
Basically, if you do RSS right, the requests rate won't be high and 99% of the requests can be served from an inexpensive cache lookup.
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