Do the RSS feeds work? And what do they do?

fatalrendezvous

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So, I'm sure many people have probably noticed the RSS symbols near all the forum titles when viewing the main forum page.

I'm interested in using these to help me be a better moderator, but I want to be sure that they work and I want to be sure of what information they relay.

Do they create a new feed entry every time a new post is made in that forum? So for example if I were to keep the RSS feed of the Announcements forum, would it alert me every time a new thread was created? Would it alert me if someone posted to a thread?

Just curious because I've been working on a spreadsheet detailing active RP threads to help me better manage them, and I think the RSS feed will help me easily see what things have changed, I just want to make sure it does those things before I start tinkering with it!
 
Fatal, I'm betting that the Admins would love someone to test it out to be sure it's working properly
 
After ten million years on the internet, I still don't even know what RSS feeds actually ARE and how they could possibly be useful to me. T___T

So yes, test them out and see? O__O
 
Welp, here goes nothing then.

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