To be perfectly honest, I don't think the RSS feed is all that useful. It will only show a thread when it's first created, and it only shows the subject and who created it.
Not that I'm lazy, but as of right now it only shows me when a new thread is created and not any replies to any threads, nor does it include the post text. It would be much more useful if it functioned like the feed on the previous site where it showed the last 15 or so posts and it had the actual post text in the item "description."
Those are just my thoughts, consider them as you wish. But implementing the feed in the first place is definitely a step towards improving an already awesome site! :tup:
If it helps, here's the RSS feed template used in the phpBB RSS mod which works the way I described before:
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>{BOARD_TITLE}</title>
<link>{SITE_URL}</link>
<description>{BOARD_DESCRIPTION}</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<lastBuildDate>{BUILD_DATE}</lastBuildDate>
<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
<generator>phpBB RSS Feed Mod</generator>
<managingEditor>{BOARD_MANAGING_EDITOR}</managingEditor>
<webMaster>{BOARD_WEBMASTER}</webMaster>
<!-- BEGIN post_item -->
<item>
<title>{post_item.FORUM_NAME} :: {post_item.TOPIC_TITLE}</title>
<link>{post_item.POST_URL}</link>
<author>{post_item.DISPLAY_AUTHOR}</author>
<description>
{L_AUTHOR}: {post_item.AUTHOR}<br />
{post_item.POST_SUBJECT}
{L_POSTED}: {post_item.POST_TIME}<br /> <br />
<span class="postbody">{post_item.POST_TEXT}
{post_item.USER_SIG}</span><br />
</description>
<pubDate>{post_item.RSS_TIME}</pubDate>
</item>
<!-- END post_item -->
</channel>
</rss>