Subscribing to non-existing threads

[jesusin]

I have a question.

When I participate in a thread, I subscribe to it, so that I receive in my email notifications of new posts in that thread. It's very convenient.

Now, I would like to subscribe to threads that doesn't exist yet, like "GOTM11 results", or "GOTM13,saves available". Is that possible?

 

[jprc]

... which means that you want to receive an email warning when a thread is created with some key words you define beforehand, is it this?
(I don't have any answer, but find the idea interresting. Perhaps this is for the forum "Site Feedback"?)

 

[DynamicSpirit]

I have a question.

When I participate in a thread, I subscribe to it, so that I receive in my email notifications of new posts in that thread. It's very convenient.

Now, I would like to subscribe to threads that doesn't exist yet, like "GOTM11 results", or "GOTM13,saves available". Is that possible?

Subscribe to the forum that the expected threads will go in (with those examples, the GOTM forum), then you'll get notified of new threads started in that forum.

 

[AlanH]

DynamicSpirit has the simple answer.

Another approach is to use an RSS-capable browser and tell it to monitor the RSS feeds for the forums you are interested in. I have subscribed my Safari RSS browser that way, and it tells me when there are new threads or posts in any of the forums I'm interested it. If you go the the GOTM Home Page you'll find RSS buttons that you can use to subscribe to the Civ3 and Civ4 forums.

 

[Goodenuf]

Is there an RSS feed available for a specific thread (such as this one, for example)? I have it set up for the Civ IV GOTM forum, and I receive notification when new threads are created, but nothing when new post are added to an existing thread, or better yet a specific thread. This would be handier than receiving an email each time a post is made in a specific thread.

I am using the RssReader application for RSS management.

 

[AlanH]

I'm not aware of an RSS feed per thread, only an RSS feed per forum.

Until the latest forum update it only fed you new threads, not new posts, but now, at least, the feed is updated to notify you of each new post in the forum.

Each RSS 'link' element in the raw feed data contains the thread number, and points to 'newpost'. And the 'title' elements are the thread titles. So, depending on RssReader's features, or your scripting ability, it might be possible to filter the RSS feed you get for a forum using the thread info as a criterion.

As an example, the feeds on the main GOTM page are actually filtered using a PHP script, and they only display threads whose titles start with 'News:' and whose creators are members of the GOTM staff.

 

[jesusin]

Thank you very much, everybody. Now I will be able to work without stopping to refresh the page of the GOTM forum every 45 seconds!

@Goodenuf
Maybe the easy solution is to visit those new threads you are notified and manually subscribing to the ones you are interested in.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Thank you very much, everybody. Now I will be able to work without stopping to refresh the page of the GOTM forum every 45 seconds!

How do you survive if your network goes down?

 

[Murky]

I prefer Firefox with the Sage add-on to see the Civ RSS feeds for the Gotms.

 

[AlanH]

Take care which threads turn up in the RSS reader ...

 

[Murky]

Take care which threads turn up in the RSS reader ...

I was wondering about that. With the SGOTM threads you can only see the 1st post unless you click the link to the thread. That is where I don't go.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

I was wondering about that. With the SGOTM threads you can only see the 1st post unless you click the link to the thread. That is where I don't go.

I have to admit, although I have my SGOTM team thread bookmarked, I usually go to it via the main SGOTM subforum page so I can see what else is going on, and I'm absolutely terrified of one day, accidentally clicking on the wrong link in the morass of team thread links and suddenly finding I'm in the wrong thread and I've just got myself disqualified

I can't think of any other place on the Internet where I've been so careful/paranoid of what links I click on, every time.

 

[Methos]

I have to admit, although I have my SGOTM team thread bookmarked, I usually go to it via the main SGOTM subforum page so I can see what else is going on, and I'm absolutely terrified of one day, accidentally clicking on the wrong link in the morass of team thread links and suddenly finding I'm in the wrong thread and I've just got myself disqualified

I can't think of any other place on the Internet where I've been so careful/paranoid of what links I click on, every time.

Easiest way I've found is to access your SGOTM thread with your UserCP only, than from your SGOTM thread access the SGOTM forum to look around. Since typically when I look around in the SGOTM forum I have no intention of accessing any thread.

I rarely every access my SGOTM thread from the SGOTM forum....

Yeah, I'm a bit paranoid about mis-clicking as well, hence my paragraph above. Lol!

 

[Silu]

Sorry about the massive thread necromancy, but I was looking for exactly this, and it seems there isn't complete unambiguous closure on the matter. If I subscribe to the GoTM RSS feed (to get push-info about the solo XoTMs) and am participating in the SGOTM, can I get myself in trouble just from that? Or do I need to accidentally click those bad, bad threads in the feed to get into that trouble, enabling careful use? Or is there an option C that has arisen in these three years that I missed?

I could overcome my rulebreaking paranoia otherwise, but it would be horrible to bring trouble to the whole team in addition to myself

 

[AlanH]

Subscribing to the GOTM feeds runs the risk of seeing spoiler information, not just for SGOTMs. I recommend you don't do it if you are a competitor.

 

[Silu]

How about a filtered version of that feed? I whipped one up with Yahoo Pipes that takes the GotM feed and filters out all posts that contain "SGOTM" or "Spoiler" in the title, which should be sufficient as long as the posts aren't accidentally called "Spoliers" or "SGOMT"-related? Or were you referring to some other source of spoilers I didn't think of?

 

[AlanH]

I can't create the filtered version myself, and in any case I can't enforce its use. Obviously if you can do so yourself that's fine.