I wonder if there is a MaxCoderz RSS feed available that lists new forum posts? (or the latest active threads, like
http://www.junemann.nl/maxcoderz/search ... d=newposts )?
I have an active TI calculator channel where Netham45 added a bot that notifies us when there are new posts on United-TI, TI-Freakware, Cemetech and Omnimaga. For Cemetech and Omnimaga, it grabs new posts from RSS feeds and for UTI it grabs the Today's Active Topic list. However, the later method is not very reliable, because it is bandwidth-intensive. Since it would be nice to have MaxCoderz in as well, I wondered if there was a new posts RSS feed available so the bot doesn't need to go through the
http://www.junemann.nl/maxcoderz/search ... d=newposts page? Currently, Netham45 had to disable the TI-Freakware notifier, the most inactive of all, because just UTI and TIFW alone eaten like 75% of his monthly bandwidth.
Since the IRC channel is useable directly on Omnimaga website when logged in, members who have it maximized also gets notified of new posts on the forums the bot checks. Since Omnimaga forums currently have a lot of activity (31500 posts in 2010), the notifier bot brings traffic to other sites as well. Sadly, the cost is the bandwidth, so this is why I was asking if there was a RSS feed available. If there isn't it's fine, though, but then Netham45 would need to setup the bot to check for new posts like twice a day, so if at one point MaxCoderz got an activity spike, a lot of new posts would get missed (since the bot can only grab the very last one everytime)