bavarianking

Character fault called 'being an engineer'. It's also really handy to have things go straight into your feed reader along with every other blog I follow

I joined in order to get notifications for the blogs that I can't get feeds for, so this is rather important to me. In order to get RSS feeds, you have to inspect the page source, do a CRTL+F and search 'rss'. If it shows 7 times, there's no feed for that subforum/blog/thread. If it shows 8 or 10 times, there is (obviously the text of the posts can interfere with this count). If it's 8 or 10, you got to each occurrence and find the link for it (format is https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/183-irish-railways-group.xml/ or https://www.rmweb.co.uk/blogs/blog/rss/2515-snitzls-main-blog/ for blogs). If that link is not there, you can't just make your own link from the URL of the page, it doesn't work like that (for some reason). My question is, why the inconsistency? Is it due to the age of the blog/subforum? Or is it something else? I know it's not due to authorship, as https://www.rmweb.co.uk/blogs/blog/2626-playing-with-150-scale/ has a feed (here: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/blogs/blog/rss/2626-playing-with-150-scale/) but https://www.rmweb.co.uk/blogs/blog/2091-kelvinbank-a-caledonian-railway-project/ doesn't. My favourite, Snitzl's Main Blog, has a feed though, so I'm quite happy with that

I've spent a fair few hours today digging, and while I can find the edges of the implementation here , I can't find anything beyond that it exists and has some sort of superiority to the NRMA standard of RailCom. I'm approaching this from an Electronic Engineer viewpoint, I want a nice spec sheet with timing diagrams, but I'll take what I can get.