As good as this component promises, recently there seems to be a bug that prevents the feeds from updating properly.
You can read all about it on the developer's own forum to which no replies have been made by the administrating staff.
http://www.joomlafun.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=2&func=view&id=37&catid=2
http://www.joomlafun.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=2&func=view&id=57&catid=2

Apart from this new bug, it's a fantastic component. Please, developers, please answer the cries of your users! :p

Thank goodness I finally found this and why was it so hard to find? I found, tried and uninstalled numerous RSS extensions before I finally found this one.

Installs easily, is easy to use and functions just as it should.

Where the Joomla core Syndicate and all the other rss components failed, this one is the one that actually WORKED!!

The best RSS component for Joomla 1.0.1!

Two very annoying bugs though:

1. Feed titles were followed by open and closed parentheses
2. The author's email address was included in the RSS feed

We fixed these bugs by changing ds-syndicate.php and feedcreator.class.php. You can download the fix I made here: www.goodwebpractices.com/joomla/rss-ds-synidicate-fix.html

This is my first review... DS-Syndicate is the only component that fix the problem of the partial feed vs. the full feed.

Now I can offer to my visitors a Feedblitz newsletter with full articles, including images!

Now, bloggers don't need to go back to wordpress.

The extended features play the game!!!

Just need help to solver same traacy's problem. The URL it's a relative link thant just dont work winth feedburner also Firefox RSS reader.

All I wanted was to be able to make a feed for my Latest News (which I have only for certain Categories/Sections). I searched everywhere for something that was easy to configure and use. This was it. I was able to figure things out for the most part without depending on any documentation. Very happy with the results so far.

It will be an excelent component for joomla, but I found some bugs in it:
- the button creator doesn't work on my site (gd2 installed)
- Thuderbird report: the feed seems like not valid rss feed (feed configured RSS2.0)

I tested it with joomla 1.0.13 ecommerce edition

Great component. I only miss one thing: to be able to choose only fulltext for the feed. All my site is preset to hide introtext when viewing fulltext. Since Technorati and similar services require fulltext in the feed, the only option DS-Syndicate gives me is to show both Introtext and Fulltext, which of course looks terrible when I often repeat the content of the intro in the fulltext.

Changing all my site is not an option.

If you would add the option to show only fulltext, I would recommend this component to everyone ;)

This beats the competing alternatives mainly by allowing embedded links and graphics if that is important to you--and for me it is. The ping manager/site ping feature is nice too.

Some small faults:

*Feed titles in the XML output are followed by open and closed parentheses: () ???

*Feed titles are truncated after 30 characters (not good) but when you are creating them this is not indicated--you can make them as long as you want, they will just be cut without notice.

*Statistic gathering is not very useful or manageable yet: just IPs and dates for machines accessing any of the feeds without indicating which.

*Button maker appears not to work.

*"Old Settings" option does not have an obvious function. I thought it was to override the default Joomla syndication, but it doesn't do that. At leas tnot the way I have tried.

Developer's site is down, so no support or docs...

This extension needs to be modified to allow embedded images to appear properly in the feed. There is a trailing slash missing in the main component php file where the tag is inserted. instead of "../images/stories" it should be "../images/stories/" -- further formatting of the images in the feeds can be done there.

I am having trouble still getting the images to appear in FeedBurner.

This is exactly what I've been looking for however there are a couple of bugs in version 1.1.1

1. When adding or changing a feed for some reason it logs me out when I go to another setting.
2. The pictures and urls are pointing to relative paths. This is annoying when using Feedburner/Feedblitz
3. When disabling images in feeds the feed wont display content of the feed.

Suggestions: In the default joomla syndicate my reader displays the categories where I can choose what ones to display. When using this one I am unable to sort by category to sort by and display can u add this to the next version

DS-Syndicate seemed like it would be the answer to my one qualm with every other syndication component available: the ability to syndicate content as HTML with images and links.

And it almost works, but images do not (the image paths are missing the slash between the .com and images, so the path is displayed as .comimages-that's no good). Worse, the official support site Joomlafun.com has been down for weeks, so there is nowhere to turn for support. I could have it misconfigured for all I know, but have no clue how to properly configure it.

In other words, this component is almost perfect, but this one little issue is really hurting it's usefulness.

A side note...if I define my sites Live Site url with a trailing / , the component does properly display images. However, it causes the rest of the site to break. So, that's no good.

This is one of the best components out there, I love how you can pinpoint what is and what is not a part of your rss feed. The way you can customize your feeds and the feed button generator are some of the strongest points in favor of the component.

I have only one problem with the component, I can't find a way to sort my arcticles the way they are sorted on the front page, I would love to be an option to sort a feed in the same way as the frontpage data. Second but minor problem is that the author website is not working, so it is kind of hard to get support and the only way to request it is from here.

Appart from that, this is probably one of the most useful component to use out there.

This component is certainly an must have for any Joomla based website using different sections and categories not published on the frontpage. I tried several ones, but this one does the job in 5 minutes! I could even create different categories of feeds without any knowledge changing codes or things like that.
Good job guys! Keep up the good work. THX

Best one out there yet, but have couple problems. First for sorting, I would like to see one by date/time, so the newest gets listed first. Next, with a lot of mambots out there that allows you to add content by using curly brackets {} like Josreplace, iJoomla Tags, JoomlaWorks video, I would like to see this also hide anything in curly brackets. Just looks cleaner. Otherwise everything I need!!! Thanks for a great upgrade.