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I do see updates in the freshness column without fail – after I refresh the page.

I do ”’not”’ have anything like page refreshes being pushed out periodically, which would eliminate the need for manual page refresh but introduce other issues, particularly when posting comments! (Say you are in the middle of composing a comment when the pushed refresh happens – not good!).

If you want code to show up with indents unscathed, paste the code in, select it with the mouse, then click the “code” button on your edit bar.

like this:

void function(int &a, int& b) {
   // just some junk to illustrate
   a = b;
}

An RSS feed is not the same thing as an email update subscription – as you seem to be finding out. What both of you seem to want is a way to get an email update for any new posting to the forum (or perhaps to the entire site). Apparently nobody in the WordPress ecosystem has either done this – or if they have, they have not shared it.

While it would be possible to redirect the RSS feeds to feedburner, that is a free service now owned by Google and now, for a variety of reasons, feedburner is not expected to be available much longer.

What we all apparently really, really want is a more global “Subscribe” capability, and surprisingly I am just not finding it. In fact, I have found out through experimentation that subscribing to a forum category is surprisingly limited in that it does not appears to include sub-categories. The only WordPress plugin I have found would require me to manually subscribe all who are to receive email concerning all updates, and that is just not scalable at all.

In the meantime you could use Firefox’s “Live Bookmarks”. Your tastes may vary, but I would not check Firefox’s “Always use Live Bookmarks to subscribe to feeds.” because I see user comments about that being a very difficult decision to undo. I have no experience at all with any of this RSS feed world, in spite of having daily frequented blogs and forums for decades.

Yes, WordPress (or the bbPress plugin in particular) does do comment threading.

I now have the correct box checked to turn this on! (defaults!! Aarrgh!!)

A lot of the links in a reddit thread I saw ended in /index.html

I just added a couple of global re-directs in our website to make those work,
should be all better now. At least the re-directs worked in my testing…

I’m not sure what you mean – the /docs page still exists. Does each talk topic in the forum need a link to /docs? Or do you mean each talk’s abstract under /docs needs a link to the corresponding forum topic?

Sorry about that, one of the old links from the conversion didn’t make it.

The slides should be there now…

There is apparently a difference that I don’t yet completely appreciate between a “page” and a “post”. The one entry I made on your behalf to the FAQ was made as a “post”, and it showed up in the RSS Site Feed. Other changes I made, such as to docs/metadata, were changes to a “page”, and did not show up in the RSS Site Feed. “Page” changes can only be made by an administrator (I think), while “author” and “editor” level users can submit and possibly edit a “post”. To the unregistered site visitor there may be no visible difference between and “post” and a “page”.

Alternatively, if you want an email for each new posting, you can subscribe to a forum category. There will be a listing of the forum hierarchy under the main title and to the right of that will be a blue subscribe link (that changes to unsubscribe if you are already subscribed).

The catch is that there has to be at least one posting in the category in order to subscribe to it. Another catch is that I couldn’t find a way to subscribe in that manner to all of the forums, so earlier today I added the RSS feed for all forum postings. As you have likely discovered, the “RSS Site Feed” does not include forum postings. 🙁

On the Forums page check out the new RSS feed link under the page title.

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I took the avatar size from 80×80 to 40×40.

I also made the whole website’s content area wider (from 474px to 674px)

I will take a look at it, but before changing over to WordPress I did a fair amount of research. The bbPress plugin impresses me as still being “young”, in that some features that I would have thought obvious (like subscription to the entire forum or a forum category) are not yet implemented. From browsing the bbPress trac site I see that they have thought about implementing this “when they have time…”.

In fact, from looking at their trac site I see that being able to subscribe to new topics in a forum was only released in Dec 2013.

OK, now I am seeing what you are saying. This is a php coding error of some sort… I will take it up with the bbPress folks.

And until we get an update to bbPress 2.5.3, remember to check the “Notify me…” check box before submitting if you don’t want to be Unsubscribed!

I was able to fix your link by changing
<a href="http://ootbcomp.com/docs/encoding" title="Encoding"></a>
to
<a href="http://ootbcomp.com/docs/encoding" title="Encoding">Encoding</a>
The link dialog is not intuitively obvious to me either. Why bother with “title” when it only misleads the user into thinking it will be something else.

Apparently “title” is the hot tip displayed when the user hovers the cursor over the link, ”’not”’ the text of the link!

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