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Patzer
Current goal: an Olympic distance triathlon. Did two of them! New goal: a half-ironman?? Did that too. New goal: I'll have to get back to you.
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.
Imminent Catastrophe
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?
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
"To obtain the air that angels breathe you must come to Tahoe"--Mark Twain
"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
√ Javelina Jundred Jalloween 2015
Cruel Jewel 50 mile May 2016
Western States 100 June 2016
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.