forum registration mandatory, but RSS can still work?

[sross]

I have problems with bots so have mandatory registration to use my forums. However I think this basically disables my RSS feed since my forums are not 'open'

Is there a way to allow rss feeds inspite of forum restrictions? I just have a few users that want to use rss but i don't want to open my forums to make it work.. if that makes sense. Thanks!!

[Colin F]

No, that's not possible.

[sross]

No, that's not possible.

ok, i have given unregistered/not logged in users access to view forums and threads, but doesn't seem to change anything. here is my external link code:

external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=13

is that right for my main forum which is id13?

does it just take a while to kick in or is something set wrong? thanks!

[Colin F]

That looks fine.
Possibly the cache has to update, wait an hour and see if it works.

[sross]

That looks fine.
Possibly the cache has to update, wait an hour and see if it works.

still seems dead. here is the link:

forums/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=13

and i have attached a screenshot of my rss settings, i bumped it to 15mins cache as well. My forums and threads are viewable to guests as far as I can tell. Thanks for any suggestions..

[Colin F]

forumids doesn't check child forums, and forumid 13 doesn't itself have any threads.

[sross]

forumids doesn't check child forums, and forumid 13 doesn't itself have any threads.

got it, it's working now