December 21, 2005

Admin - RSS 1.0 feed reincarnated

Well, bugger me, Alan’s right. I can’t take my dear RSS 1.0 feed away from you dear readers, because I love you all too much.

What was I up to? I was fed up with each feed having completely different formatting and content, and the utter lack of support in Movable Type for managing this stuff. So as I’m pushed for time, I thought I’d axe the apparently obsolescent one.

Now I know better. All three original feeds have been restored, with identical full feed info plus comments. And it’s 2am. At least I’m not being kept tonight up by the colic monster.

I’ve also narrowed down the choice for new readers to full feeds with or without embedded comments.

I’m sure it’s still all stuffed up a bit, but with a bit of luck you’re all too pissed after your office parties to notice.

UPDATE: Another reason to hate Movable Type: the post time defaults to when you first saved the article — even as an unpublished draft, not when you actually publish it. It really is almost 2am, honest.

Posted by Martin Geddes at 01:43 AM
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Well now none of your feeds are working...

Posted by: at December 22, 2005 02:23 PM

I agree unreservedly with the previous poster...perhaps we need to pay you money now? ;)

Posted by: at December 27, 2005 09:09 AM

Hi,

For http://www.telepocalypse.net/index.rdf

Firefox reports:

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: .
Location: http://www.telepocalypse.net/index.rdf
Line Number 105, Column 3:
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Happy New Year,
Hamish.

Posted by: at January 1, 2006 05:10 AM

You should have simply silently redirected (301 Moved Permanently) everything to your ATOM feed.

Posted by: at February 3, 2006 09:02 PM
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