how to make spacehey great again

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firstly, i absolutely love this site and how it allows all of us to be creative as heck. thing is, it does have its fair share of flaws and one of those flaws is a sheer lack of user updates for groups & forums.

ever notice that a forum or group you are in doesn't give updates whenever a new topic is posted? bulletins and blogs, yeah sure. we all get updates for those. but i've never seen an update for someone starting a new thread in a group or forum. which is a shame since it would be a pivotal factor for keeping any micro community active :O

GOOD NEWS - THERE IS AN ACTUAL SOLUTION!!

ofc this does involve an extra step which really shouldn't need to be taken, but until our webmaster an fixes things, it kinda is needed. so here we go okay? whew. this is what we all need to pay attention to (not just here in frens, but the overall site as a whole):

this is the universal symbol for rss (really simple syndication). if you're into podcasting, or vlogging (or if you're active on some other site where aggregated content exists), you've seen the rss icon. there's a good chance you've already seen it on here, just from aimlessly doomscrolling on spacehey. but what the heckadoodie IS it?

it's a means of syndicating dynamic content, and how many people choose to get their news and updates. there are many many rss readers around, some web based, some via apps, some via desktop. so if you want regular updates to a particular forum or group, then until an addresses this and applies a much needed sitewide update, you need to pay attention to the following:

https://rss.spacehey.com/group_forum?id=39162&show=recent

this is the rss link for this group, frens. feel free to use this post as a means of applying things to your own groups or forums but for purposes here, we're sticking with our own group's rss feed. what you need to do then is use an rss feed reader (again there are literally hundreds of these things around) and submit the url above!!

i just signed up with inoreader.com, which has a sleek interface and is very easy for newbs to get to grips with, but other popular feed readers include feedly, feedburner and newsblur. honestly, go with whatever works for you. then once you're set up, you will see regular updates and again, until this site is fixed, this really is the best alternative.

btw, this is what frens look like in inoreader:

despite not previously getting updates for new threads being posted, i am now!!

hope this is helpful for whoever reads it! <333

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likewise, this is the rss link for this thread right here:

https://rss.spacehey.com/forum_topic?id=185384

so if you wanted updates just for this thread

>copy above link
>paste into rss reader
>????
>profit

some of you are thinking, "why should we bother"

let me just reiterate here

you create a group and lets say someone posts a new topic to that group

unless you actually VISIT the page, how do you know if someone posted or not???

you don't get a "NEW THREAD" notif like you do for mostly everything else :O

likewise, you go onto the main forums and post a new thread

nobody else will know a new thread has been posted

not unless they actually GO there

this is 100% the reason why a lot of core sections of this site have extremely low activity

and that is despite spacehey having an almost 2million userbase :O

until stuff gets le fix, this really is the best alternative

ty <333

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posting some nick cage to see if he appears in the feed for this thread :O

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from inoreader just now:

edit: okay nick himself does not appear (i checked it and it's plain text) but

this really proves that using rss to sub to updates to your groups & forums works

and with enough ppl behind it, it would dramatically influence sitewide activity

ofc a BETTER solution would be an allowing people to subscribe to forums and groups

so that they're NOTIFIED via their profile updates

but until that happens, this is it - this is the way forward

btw ur all v welcome xoxo

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bro is using mint W

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MINTy fresh

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oh, this is cool as hell -- thank you

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tyty its def a 100% workaround to things an needs to fix stuff tho like omg ;__;

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omg thank u! that. that would improve engagement yes

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this is super cool omg? ty!!

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i’ll consider setting it up! it just sux that getting many notifications overwhelms me but hey

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just set this up on rssguard and it works niceee. hopefully if more ppl adopt this forum posters will feel like theres actually a reason to post, so we'll get more posts. im trying to figure out if theres a way to get notifications for topic replies too (without having to manually add an rss feed for each topic), ill update if i figure that out!

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I need to spread this post EVERYWHERE!!!!!

Cuz i fucking LOVEEEEE forums but damn it feel SO BARREN IT HURRRTTTSSSSS

So ty dude, also i think spacehey now notifies you for forum replies just no forum topics ig

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>i think spacehey now notifies you for forum replies just no forum topics

yea its the latter of the two here which all this is about

like you wouldn't know if there's a new post here

unless you went to actually look for one

you def dont get notifs for it

sad rly that we dont have a sub/unsub for new forum posts but oh well :o

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update: there have been some v recent (and v positive) developments :3 https://forum.spacehey.com/topic?id=236115

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Im gonna use that, thanx ~xoxo aajmsi

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