Application to watch forums??
 

Is there any application or tool to watch forums and specific threads? I am fed of visiting a bunch of sites everyday while there is no new post in the threads i am interested in. Am i asking to much?

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

mhm... rss feed? :D

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

Many forums have RSS feeds and some of these can be customised to only include specific boards or threads. If a board you are looking at supports that then that's the easiest way to do it.

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

At the moment, you can click the Thread Tools button and subscribe to the thread by email. Then just create a filter in your email client (or a server-side) filter to move these emails to a dedicated folder you can watch.

Edit: looks like you were asking for a more generic solution. Don't know of any easy one.

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

You can also subscribe to fora with "No email notification" and use the URL http://talk.maemo.org/newsub.php to get a list of all threads in all subscribed fora that have been updated.

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

Thanks for the answers. Seems there is no such tool.

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

Four people have just told you that the forums themselves are the tool. No-one is going to make an app to do something with forums that forums do natively.

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

Yeah man cool.

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

Whats a good RSS reader for the N900 since we are on that topic :D

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

I don't know about "good", but there's an RSS app in the default distribution. I haven't used it myself.

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

That's not so great. There's also FeedingIt which is a lot better (not sure it's made it out of -devel yet though).

Re: Application to watch forums??
 

Create a custom HTML page with a meta-refresh to auto refresh the page for some odd number of minutes; add an iframe on that page to your Subscriptions' page from the User Control panel, leave panel on desktop/mobile open and boom... without RSS you get those updates.

I also believe that the Subscriptions' page is also its own RSS feed (an authenticated one), so that would also work from one's RSS application.