People are asking for RSS feeds for a cruciforum. My policy on this was
initially defined by “no”, as per a post to the forum ; I examined Joel Spolsky’s reasoning in Building Communities With
Software and found it convincing. However, people
want it. If it happens, it’ll be one feed for a whole forum, with no
per-thread feeds; that way people can’t just subscribe to their
question. It shouldn’t be that difficult to do; just have an rss item
template, and make sure there’s only the most recent ten posts in the
RSS feed (so that it doesn’t grow without limit). It’d be worth looking
at ETags for this, perhaps, although there’s not a lot that we can do to
influence that since the feed will be a static file like all the other
post files.