Interactive RSS feeds?

I'm in the process of moving a Proboards board to SMf. I just know I'll lose many of my casual members and visitors in the move. I saw something on the SMF support forum about Echo Forums---basically software that integrates feeds. The gist is whenever your board's members reply to whatever feeds you chose on your board, their posts are also posted on the source board..with your link in the poster's signature.

I thought this was a fabulous idea, but unfortunately it seems that Echo Forum has dropped the ball on this. They are not responding to any requests for info even from current users. There's no way I can even install something like that without at least an active support forum.

I've searched Google to no avail for something similar. Does anyone here know of any other program like this?

Thanks!

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This program must be great, and I am sorry that this is the first time I hear about it.

As for the rss I have made a script that posts feeds into this forum, but it doesn't do the reverse thing that you described.

But I heared that the new version of IPB will have something like that. Maybe you should search their site.

I checked here:
http://www.invisionpower.com/ip.dynamic/products/board/index.html
And couldn't find anything.

I read on the SMF board that this was set up similar to how some old bbs and usenet groups were back in the day. So, I'm thinking that writing the code shouldn't be too difficult with some research. Whoever pulls it off can make a bundle. I was willing to pay $45/year for 10 feeds.

It increases posts and traffic on your board as well as advertise your board with every reply to an RSS post.

A thing of beauty.

I have never heard of such a thing but it definitely sounds interesting. I would like to give it a go is there is such a thing. Can you direct me to the page where this is mentioned?

The Echo Forum site main page itself has a notice that it's down for maintenance.

However, I was able to activate a membership on Monday so I can get in through the backdoor, sort of:
http://www.echoforum.com/contactus.htm

I found one thread on SMF here:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=40059.0

I have never heard of such a thing but it definitely sounds interesting. I would like to give it a go is there is such a thing. Can you direct me to the page where this is mentioned?

If you get it working, I need help. Desperately.

Update: I just read on the SMF board that Echoforum hasn't been supporting this since Sept. No word on why. Some regular subscribers are unable to get their feeds or their emails answered. I had such hope for this.

Does anyone here know of a similar service?

What does the "RSS Feed" designation you have next to certain boards here signify?

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Does anyone here know of a similar service?

I don't know of any, but I could create one in the future. How much they charged for this?

What does the "RSS Feed" designation you have next to certain boards here signify?

These are the latest topics in the boards in rss format, so you can read them with your rss reader, or syndicate them to your site

Does anyone here know of a similar service?

I don't know of any, but I could create one in the future. How much they charged for this?

What does the "RSS Feed" designation you have next to certain boards here signify?

These are the latest topics in the boards in rss format, so you can read them with your rss reader, or syndicate them to your site

They offered a free three month trial membership that allowed you 3-5 feeds and the next level up was an annual membership that allowed up to 10 feeds for $45. They said they offered thousands of feeds. The transition from free trial to annual was supposedly seamless.

What really interested me about it was the interactivity. The RSS posts we responded to on our board would be displayed on the orginating board, too, with our link in the signature. More people to post with right off the bat and more advertisement for our board with every one of our posts.

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That's a very nice service.

The only time consuming thing in the development is that you should have a way to get the blog comments and add them as replies to your postings.

Maybe I will try to implement it when I have some free time, but propably it will take some months.

I think you would do really well with it in conjunction with your Topsites site.

Here's the blurb from the Echoforum site:
EchoForum allows webmasters to easily import into their discussion forums many types of content, including member created shared communities, UseNet Newsgroups, RSS Feeds, Listservs, and Newsletters. As messages are posted and replied to, they are seamlessly "echoed" to all participating members and vice versa. This allows webmasters to add discussion content from our ever expanding library that would be of interest to their forum's visitors, resulting in instant activity, greatly enhanced content, better retention, and increased discussion forum value. Currently, EchoForum supports the following forum software types, Simple Machines, vBulletin, PhpBB, InvisionBoard, UBB Threads, and XMB, with other software types, as well as, new sources and categories of content being evaluated for addition to our vast library of over 100,000 content feeds.

We started EchoForum in response to the growing demand over the last couple of years from forum owners to be able to link their communities together, sharing and exchanging their content, similar to Fidonet and the other echomail networks that were so popular back in the heyday of bbses. In addition to this, we have noticed a rise in the number of forum operators wanting to import newsgroups, RSS feeds and other content to give their members a wider variety of topics to participate in. It was from reading these messages over and over, we finally decided to form a company and provide a service similar to the old Fidonet, but with all the extra powers, bells, and whistles that the internet allows for today. This was the beginning spark of the service we now call EchoForum, and with your help, a lot of hard work, some creativity, and a touch of innovation, we will realize the vision of The EchoForum Network and develop it to its full potential.

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Wow. It seems that they done a lot of work for this.

Thanks for the information

Thank YOU, if you decide to give it a try. I'll be your first customer!

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That's good, but I will never get money from you

Aww, aren't you sweet.   

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Check this thread :

http://www.webdigity.com/index.php/topic,974.0.New+service+%3A+RSS+feeds+integrator+for+SMF+forums+BETA.html

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