Any way to see only new topics in RSS feed?

@Shamino David C.
Tue, 05 May 2026 19:21:53 +0000

YZ:

I am not sure I understand, how my Tidbits login status (if you meant just that) is related to my question.

I must have misunderstood. I assumed that you wanted the RSS feed to only show you articles and comments you have not yet read - which the web site tracks as you view articles.

I see now, after your replies, that when you wrote “new topics”, you meant a feed of top-level topics, not a feed of topics that you haven’t yet read.

YZ:

The root of the forum (https://talk.tidbits.com/) does not display any answer until you open the article, but these answers are somehow treated by forum engine exactly as new articles and are passed to RSS reader.

The current configuration for the site’s RSS feeds appears to be:

A “Latest topics” feed: https://talk.tidbits.com/latest.rss. This is the first post for each topic. This appears to be the feed you want.

A “Latest posts” feed: https://talk.tidbits.com/posts.rss. This is every post on every topic. It appears that this is what you are currently reading.

Per-topic comments feeds. For example, the one for this feed is https://talk.tidbits.com/t/any-way-to-see-only-new-topics-in-rss-feed/33411.rss. These feeds are dynamically created and destroyed as topics are created and destroyed.

FWIW, I use the Want My RSS extension in Firefox to create an icon in the browser’s location bar whenever there are RSS feeds available. This feature used to be a part of most browsers, but it has gone away and now requires an extension.

Without an extension like this, it can be hard to know what feeds exist for any particular site.