Does anyone access the forum through other readers?

Genoma · 15 Aug 2013 at 19:38

Had a search around but didn't really find anything that would be good to provide offline reading / extra features to the OCUK web forums. Are there any?

Was looking for something that would show me my subscribed threads and say the number of unread posts posted in them once people replied?

Something along the lines of AMEOL if anyone remembers it

Genoma · 16 Aug 2013 at 18:09

Guess not!

httk · 16 Aug 2013 at 18:29

Genoma said:
Guess not!

Haha. Certainly looks that way.

Soundood · 16 Aug 2013 at 20:39

Windows 8 lets you store pages for off-line viewing, if that's what your looking for

Genoma · 16 Aug 2013 at 22:51

No, there are some utilities that interface with various forum servers (vBulletin in OCUK's case) to provide offline access. I was after something that gave you more 'reader' type functionality like someone replied to a subscribed thread, new posts, etc.

Genoma · 17 Aug 2013 at 09:12

A quick search around suggests there is no API to integrate with vBulletin

Pawnless Endgame · 17 Aug 2013 at 10:00

I don't think you can archive a forum as a normal user. You would need access levels equivalent to a Don to extract the database offline. Not sure about vBulletin (the software that this board runs on) but I have seen it happen before elsewhere.

Genoma · 17 Aug 2013 at 17:31

What just expecting an API to allow you to select the posts you can read normally. But I can see this could be pretty heavy on the server it it was polled constantly.

Genoma · 17 Aug 2013 at 17:32

Also it could bypass advertising which wouldn't make sense for OCUK.

arknor · 17 Aug 2013 at 18:25

I access it via readers wives

(sorry couldn't help my self)

Energize · 17 Aug 2013 at 18:47

It's pretty trivial to create a such a simple program in any case.

Marky · 17 Aug 2013 at 18:48

Energize said:
It's pretty trivial to create a such a simple program in any case.

vBulletin has no APIs to use and little RSS support (This forum has it disabled) - so you'd be creating a web browser as opposed to a forum reader.

The only way to access this forum is through a web browser.

Genoma · 18 Aug 2013 at 09:25

Energize said:
It's pretty trivial to create a such a simple program in any case.

"A quick search around suggests there is no API to integrate with vBulletin"

Energize · 18 Aug 2013 at 13:07

Just create a program that requests the urls of subscribed threads from the user cp and then tells the user when another post <div> has been added to a thread. Not exactly difficult...

Absomalutely · 18 Aug 2013 at 14:40

Energize said:
Just create a program that requests the urls of subscribed threads from the user cp and then tells the user when another post <div> has been added to a thread. Not exactly difficult...

When are you going to make this simple program available for download then?

Energize · 18 Aug 2013 at 20:12

When you pay me to make it?

Genoma · 20 Aug 2013 at 22:01

Thought about trying to parse the user subscriptions view page for that kind of thing, that could be viable with some JS http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/subscription.php

But to then check each thread, I'm sure the boards will throw a wobbly if you try and pull 100 subscribed threads together via a script. Could look like a DOS?

Maybe not since I could in theory just create a bunch of bookmarks in a browser folder then open them all at once to the same effect...