removing "&goto=newpost" from the RSS feed URLs

Hi there,

This vBulletin-based forum I use frequently has the RSS feature enabled, which is great. However, I've noticed that all the "new thread" URLs sent out via RSS include "&goto=newpost" appended to them, which makes absolutely no sense to me because if you're getting an RSS message/post/whatever about a new thread, surely you want to check out its FIRST POST, right? As in start from the beginning?

Does anyone know how to stop "&goto=newpost" from being appended to the URLs sent out via RSS? The person running the site claims "that's the way it's coded." *sigh*

I would be super-appreciative!

Well, he's right, there are no settings allowing fine tuning of it. The only "options" are url based and there is none allowing what you want to do. Additionally, AFAIK there aren't any hooks that could allow to write plug-ins for this part of vbulletin, so your admin would have to go into the PHP and make changes directly to have it work the way you want it. And that's a pretty daunting task if your admin's not knowledgeable in PHP.

Well, he's right, there are no settings allowing fine tuning of it. The only "options" are url based and there is none allowing what you want to do. Additionally, AFAIK there aren't any hooks that could allow to write plug-ins for this part of vbulletin, so your admin would have to go into the PHP and make changes directly to have it work the way you want it. And that's a pretty daunting task if your admin's not knowledgeable in PHP.Damn... that sucks. I could modify the PHP myself if I had access but... well... yeah, obviously I'm "just" a user. Does anyone know WHY it's coded this way? It seems totally counter-intuitive to me...

Well, since the RSS feed is cached to lessen the load onto external.php, I could guess they thought it could be a better functionality if they sent you to the latest post since the first post is available in the feed, but it's true, to the end user is totally counterintuitive.

Hmmm. As far as I know, it actually sends you to the last unread post. When you're a member, that works quite well. As a guest, well that might depend on your cookie settings and how regularly you pop by.

Hmmm. As far as I know, it actually sends you to the last unread post. When you're a member, that works quite well. As a guest, well that might depend on your cookie settings and how regularly you pop by.Nope, that's not the case with me... it sends me to the newest post in the thread, and that's when I'm a logged in member.

Plus, this is the RSS feed for NEW threads, not existing ones (there isn't one for existing ones as far as I know). So if I'm a member and I've been to the thread without first checking my RSS feed, I'm not going to use my RSS feed to go back to it.

I wish there were an "all posts" feed but I've been told it's just new threads or nothing.

This code sorts and produces results based on the last post in a thread on my forum.

Change the sitename - check whether your forum folder has an s on it, and give it a whirl.
http://www.theforumsa.co.za/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&lastpost=1

This code sorts and produces results based on the last post in a thread on my forum.

Change the sitename - check whether your forum folder has an s on it, and give it a whirl.
http://www.theforumsa.co.za/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&lastpost=1Okay, yeah, it does... I got that working. But I want something that produces a list of the all the new threads but doesn't skip me down to the latest post in those new threads... so basically, I want the URLs produced to take me to the beginning of all the new threads. Right now they take me to the last message in all the new threads.

Maybe I should explain how I do this: I have the RSS feed in Thunderbird to let me know when there are new threads... then I use the URLs in those "messages" to jump to the new threads so I can read them. Of course, it's jumping me to the bottom of the new threads now, which is very non-ideal.