Real-time notify of new posts

pixellany · 05-24-2007, 12:55 PM

Other than opening the "latest posts" view and continuously hitting the browser refresh button, is there a way to watch new posts as they arrive?

It would be handy while working on something else to have new posts pop up---a quick glance would tell if it was something to which I could contribute. This is directly analogous to how I operate with e-mail---I'm grinding away on a report while watching the inbox out of the corner of my eye.

Linville79 · 05-24-2007, 01:33 PM

I have the LinuxQuestion.org module added to my personalized Google homepage. That's pretty much exactly what it does, although I'm not 100% sure if it will refresh itself or not. Looks like it's just monitoring the Latest Threads RSS feed.

pwc101 · 05-24-2007, 01:36 PM

There's an RSS feed too, although how frequently it's updated I'm not sure. I think the google module uses that as its source.

jeremy · 05-24-2007, 02:53 PM

The "Latest Threads" RSS feed would be perfect for this.

--jeremy