AskMeFi RSS feed broken in Bloglines

March 4, 2006 8:45 AM

AskMeFi RSS feed broken in Bloglines. Regular MeFi feed working fine.
posted by Dean King to Bugs at 8:45 AM (13 comments total)

"Bloglines has encountered an error trying to fetch the latest version of this feed. Bloglines handles errors automatically, no action is required by you. The error was:

"The feed URL returns a page that does not look like an RSS feed. This can be caused by the feed URL being incorrect, or it can be caused by a configuration issue with the server hosting the feed. If this error continues, you should check the feed URL and, if it is wrong, subscribe to the correct URL."
posted by Dean King at 8:45 AM on March 4, 2006

Looks fine on the feed validator, so I suspect it was a temporary fuckup on the part of bloglines.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:35 AM on March 4, 2006

Sorry
This feed does not validate.
*line 1, column 0: XML parsing error: :1:0: syntax error [help]

Connection Failure
Source: http://ask.metafilter.com/rss.xml
1. Connection Failure
posted by Dean King at 2:46 PM on March 4, 2006

It's been broken for a few days now...
posted by achmorrison at 2:47 PM on March 4, 2006

Yeah, I've noticed this too.
posted by blag at 4:30 PM on March 4, 2006

Any chance this will get fixed soon? Just curious...
posted by achmorrison at 5:30 PM on March 6, 2006

I've sent a note to Bloglines asking if it's a problem on their end.
posted by Dean King at 6:17 PM on March 6, 2006

Bloglines has reset the feed.
posted by Dean King at 6:27 PM on March 6, 2006

That's excellent service. Great stuff.
posted by blag at 6:42 PM on March 6, 2006

It's continued to be pretty much broken for me. Did Bloglines say anything about the problem from their POV?
posted by dhartung at 9:35 PM on March 7, 2006

No, just to let them know if it broke again.
posted by Dean King at 7:25 AM on March 8, 2006

Happening again. The feed validates fine, but isn't showing up in Bloglines.
posted by blag at 9:33 AM on March 9, 2006

sent another note...
posted by Dean King at 10:51 AM on March 9, 2006