RSS support

[Zeborah]

If you do whatever needs to be done in the software to support RSS then I should be able to create templates for the xml files: one per group and one per thread, at least.

Ability for people to get RSS feeds for search results (eg search by author's name or by keyword or such) would be cool too but obviously depends on how the search function (q.v.) works.

It would be nice for people with an account to be able to get restricted groups via RSS but not sure about potential for abuse. If it's not technically possible/easy due to authentication issues that solves that. :-)

[ajk]

Restricted RSS is problematic, mostly because they have to handle Google Reader and similar things gracefully. For example, Google Reader isn't able to subscribe to restricted Blogspot blogs.

[ajk]

Partially addressed by changeset:45af145fba9488de1cc9d7106aaa6061d101fe2b

[ajk]

Replying to ajk:

Partially addressed by changeset:45af145fba9488de1cc9d7106aaa6061d101fe2b

Obviously, that was the wrong changeset. The correct one was cc0a570a9262613f7046938be649f27646987cb8

[ajk]

And 5a1670789eb0794a16ec88e8cea39aa9a46f9a8 completed it. We now have feeds for each group, containing recent messages in the group, and each message, containing the (sub)thread rooted at the message.

Restricted group feeds and (obviously) search feeds are not supported at this time.

Feel free to open tickets for any additional feeds needed.