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TUAW RSS feed woes? We're working on it
Thanks to diligent tips from readers, we're aware of some issues with our RSS feeds. Depending on what you use to pull our feed (Bloglines, NetNewsWire, Netvibes, Google Reader, etc.) your subscription may be "stuck" and won't automatically update. Rest assured we are working on this with the major feed reader folks and hope to have a resolution soon. Sorry about that!Also, we are working to allow mobile Safari users to access the full site in addition to the i.tuaw.com optimized page. Again, sorry about the delay.
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oz_paulb said 5:38PM on 11-05-2008
>> Also, we are working to allow mobile Safari users to
>> access the full site in addition to the i.tuaw.com
>> optimized page.
Cool! I've been looking for a good way to reboot my browser!
:)
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Dave said 5:41PM on 11-05-2008
LOL....
Victor Agreda Jr said 5:50PM on 11-05-2008
You would be amazed at how many people request this.
Dave said 5:40PM on 11-05-2008
I've noticed that regardless of how the feed is accessed (Google Reader, Firefox live bookmark, Safari RSS reader, wget, curl, whatever), it is updated with new posts about 30-minutes after the new posts appear on the main site. It's been this way for months/years/ever... Kind of annoying.
Maybe you do it to drive traffic to your site to increase your ad revenue??
I use Google for the feeds most of the time and I honestly just blame them. They have great services but they're up and down more than a roller coaster.
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Victor Agreda Jr said 5:50PM on 11-05-2008
I assure you it isn't some elaborate scheme to drive traffic to the main site (conspiracy theories always assume far more coordination than we're capable of, frankly). We've been using Feedburner for a long time and recently a number of our feeds started having real issues. I have no idea why there would be a 30-minute delay. Gremlins?
Nick Hodulik said 6:13PM on 11-05-2008
Actually, now that you mention feeds, what's with the new disclaimer at the bottom of each Weblogs Inc. feed? It's rather unnecessary, superfluous, and, for lack of a more constructive or descriptive word, dumb. Can a TUAWer shed some light on this?
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Victor Agreda Jr said 10:43PM on 11-05-2008
We cribbed from Merlin Mann:
http://www.43folders.com/feedfooter
Nick Hodulik said 11:32PM on 11-05-2008
Oh. I take that back. Not so dumb after all. Smrt!
Aaron Davies said 5:02AM on 11-06-2008
I don't care. 50 obnoxiously colored pixels of clutter is, much like DRM, a price you impose on the 99% of honest feed users which has no effect at all on the 1% you're trying to affect. Do you honestly think feed thieves haven't already filtered this out? It's simple: the footer goes or I do.
Big John said 6:03PM on 11-05-2008
Doesn't seem to be any issue with my Google Reader-pulled feed, for what it's worth.
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Brian said 6:38PM on 11-05-2008
I suddenly had problems with Tuaw, Engadget, and Autoblog all at the same time where they weren't refreshing. Deleting the feeds and resubscribing did the trick for me. All have worked since.
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matt.tehonica said 8:18PM on 11-05-2008
Same thing here. glad to see some acknowlegment of the problem. Thought I was going crazy!
Mez Jr said 6:30PM on 11-05-2008
Who's checking your Omniture? I'd imagine you'd see a drop in traffic to new articles pretty rapidly. This is the first time I've been to TUAW since the feeds "froze" I can't be the only one.
You guys gotta whip your analytics person if your first indication came from readers.
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Mez Jr said 6:32PM on 11-05-2008
Sorry to reply to myself, but this is happening to other family sites but not all, Engaget is fine, but Joystiq and Autoblog are also boned.
Aaron Davies said 5:05AM on 11-06-2008
Also, the only browser I can post comments from is IE7, and the only browser I can activate comments from is MobileSafari. Seriously, does anyone ever test this place, or are you too busy adding new sidebars and ad frames?
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Alex Robert said 11:13AM on 11-06-2008
For about a week now, I noticed that the TUAW and the Engadget feeds were not automatically updating then to find out that no latest news were being available through those feeds. Accessing them by Google solved the problem. I guess I'll be going through them until The problem is fixed.
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