Football Feeds

**dahamsta** · 26/08/2006, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by thejollyrodger

whats with all the football feeds ? Does that many feeds really need to be posted ?

If you don't want to see them, follow the instructions in post 28 in this thread.

**mypost** · 08/09/2006, 4:00 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

it is a way of bringing current news to the forum, rather than relying on users to go out and look for it and bring it back.

Either way, it's an experiment, if people generally don't like it I'll kill it.

Just had a flick through some of the threads, very few are viewed more than 10 times, and most of them are not replied to, so posters don't seem very interested.

Should you continue with the experiment, or even scale the number of threads down if posters aren't looking at them?

**Closed Account 2** · 29/11/2006, 8:35 PM

Hi,

Just so you know, with some of the feeds from Uefa.com there are occasionally problems with international characters (letters) in the headline.

For instance the following:-

Keeper Zili? saves day...

As you can see the ć of Zilić is replaced with a [ ? ]

I dont think it's in anyway a significant problem, but just thought I should flag it having spotted it.

**dahamsta** · 29/11/2006, 9:08 PM

Thanks cfdh_edmundo. The feeds are handled internally by vB so I don't have any direct control over it, but I'll report it. I may move the feeds into an aggregator anyway, they seem to be causing some confusion.

adam

**GavinZac** · 02/12/2006, 5:54 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

Thanks cfdh_edmundo. The feeds are handled internally by vB so I don't have any direct control over it, but I'll report it. I may move the feeds into an aggregator anyway, they seem to be causing some confusion.

adam

i reckon you'd be better off with the 'AboutToday' extension for vB, rather than vB's built in feed reader.

**dublinred** · 28/12/2006, 12:26 PM

Is their anyway of blocking the football feeds todays posts ?

**dahamsta** · 28/12/2006, 1:35 PM

http://foot.ie/showpost.php?p=513545&postcount=28

**GavinZac** · 02/05/2007, 1:11 AM

Is there any chance you could get the new posts button to exclude the football feeds section? you just have to add "&exclude=90" to the link. Or even just adding this link to the drop down "quick links"/"tools" section?

While they can be interesting, they are usually just arranged in order of when they were posted anyway, inside the FF forum.

**Dodge** · 02/05/2007, 7:54 AM

http://foot.ie/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=90

Bookmark this.

**GavinZac** · 02/05/2007, 9:59 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

http://foot.ie/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=90

Bookmark this.

i use computers in 4 different locations, one an office where we rotate around 40/50 computers.

just another brainwave there (takes a few hours for the next one to go through), could the feeds be offered in the form of an aggregated feed that people could read in their feed reader rather than into a forum?

**Dodge** · 02/05/2007, 10:05 AM

If they wanted that they could go to UEFA, FAI, RTE etc and get the feeds themselves surely?

**GavinZac** · 27/12/2007, 9:54 PM

If i write a small plugin for vbulletin that'll put an option in the user control panel to ignore the football feeds forum in the new posts section, would it be used?

it'd just be a little checkbox that decides whether &exclude=33 is placed in that link on the navbar, or not.

**pete** · 29/06/2008, 9:07 PM

Looks like they are on the blink as 20 pages of them.

Unless this site is getting paid to display they seem pointless at the best of times.

**dahamsta** · 30/06/2008, 8:25 AM

Originally Posted by pete

Looks like they are on the blink as 20 pages of them.

Eh?

Unless this site is getting paid to display they seem pointless at the best of times.

Someone's reading them though pete, look at the Read column.

**pete** · 30/06/2008, 9:07 AM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

Eh?

I got 20 pages of them when clicked new posts yesterday. Maybe was only my account as a lot of them were old feeds from months ago...

**dahamsta** · 30/06/2008, 9:24 AM

TBH I'd like to turn it off but with a replacement in place, and I haven't had time to configure and skin the replacement. We're looking at reskinning everything later in the year so it'll probably happen then.

adam

**the 12 th man** · 30/06/2008, 8:08 PM

Originally Posted by pete

I got 20 pages of them when clicked new posts yesterday. Maybe was only my account as a lot of them were old feeds from months ago...

I got them as well-seemed to be all the feeds since Euro finals started?.
I wouldn't miss them as I very seldom look at them.

**De Town** · 04/09/2009, 4:18 PM

Is there any way I can ignore the football feeds section of the site? I never read anything from there and its just a nuisance having to mark it as read every time I log in.

**thischarmingman** · 04/09/2009, 5:24 PM

Never cared enough to make a topic on it, but now there is a topic might as well add I think it's a really pointless forum. You only need to see the thread views to see that.