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March 26, 2005
Hey! Bloglines! What gives?!
I posted a while back the folks subscribing to this blog via Bloglines would likely be experiencing problems receiving updates to this feed. For some inexplicable reason, the feeds weren't updating though both validate just fine. In the end, the only explanation I received from Bloglines was: "we are currently experiencing some difficulties with our server." At the time I was just happy that they got it working again and didn't pursue it any further, but now I'm getting annoyed. Neither the rdf or xml files have updated since Tuesday (March 22nd). I have contacted them again, and haven't heard anything. Now that Bloglines has been sold to a major search engine, shouldn't it be working?? Well, it looks like I'm not alone. Michael Feldstein over at e-Literate has been experiencing the exact same thing, and has gone so far as to tell his readers not to use Bloglines.
New and improved RSS 2.0 feed
So needless to say, I've removed the 'sub bloglines' icon from the front page for now, and I've taken the opportunity to spiff up the 2.0 feed. This feed now displays comments along with the entries, so if that's something that interests you, you may want to switch by subscribing instead to the RSS 2.0 feed.
UPDATE:
I just randomly spot-checked my Bloglines subscriptions against my Sage feeds (because I inherently distrust Bloglines now) and my feed is not the only one that isn't updating. Skype Journal, for one, hasn't been updated since last Wednesday through Bloglines (though if you go to the blog you'll see several postings since then). This is troublesome, to say the least. I've already exported all of my feeds to NewsGator and Sage.
Posted on March 26, 2005 4:11 PM to misc news