"Active content" search?

Started by Silvermink, May 11, 2010, 12:23:39 PM

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Silvermink

One of the other boards I'm on, Fountain Pen Network, has an "active content" search that will show the threads from all forums in order of last post, such that you can look in a single location for anything new rather than jump from board to board. It's incredibly convenient. Does SMF have any similar functionality or plugins or the like?

I tried doing this through Search but it forces you to specify search terms - you can't just "search for everything".

Vanilla Skunk

You can use the board's RSS feature for this.

Silvermink

Where's the RSS at? Possibly I can't see it because I'm using the basic style...

Silvermink

I guess there's also "View the most recent posts on the forum" under Forum Stats, though that's a per-post view and what I was thinking of is a per-thread view.

Vanilla Skunk

Using Firefox, there's an RSS button in the address bar.  That's all I know.  I had it hooked up once, and I would get every single post that hit the forum in a dropdown in my favourites bar.

Which I found annoying, because the forum games was the most active at the time, and I don't even visit there.

Silvermink

Oh, I guess "Show unread posts since your last visit" works fine, too.