MetaTalk

Last month, an apparent error in Feedburner caused several of MeFi's legacy RSS feeds to not update for up to a week (at least in my popular feed reader, Feedly). The problem has been fixed -- for now. But it's an important reminder that the Feedburner platform is increasingly unreliable -- if it were ever shut down by Google, the thousands of readers who rely on those feeds to keep up with the site may lose contact without even realizing it. The good news is that the site has a new set of self-hosted feeds that should remain active no matter what Google does. So, if you read the site using an RSS reader, please take a moment to update your reader to the new feeds -- and check the related posts on MetaFilter and Ask MetaFilter for a list of posts you might have missed during the outage.
posted by Rhaomi on Mar 11, 2024 - 2 comments

I would like an RSS feed for Ask.Metafilter popular favorites of the last 24 hours. Please. Thank you.
posted by bigmusic on Jan 7, 2010 - 7 comments

Is there an RSS version of http://ask.metafilter.com/home/popularfavorites? [more inside]
posted by pwnguin on Oct 31, 2009 - 6 comments

Bug? Anon ask.me post came up as less-than-anon in (my) RSS feed. [more inside]
posted by lowlife on Oct 22, 2007 - 28 comments

Why is there no line break before the (more inside) part in AskMe RSS? [more inside]
posted by dixie flatline on Oct 14, 2007 - 9 comments

The rss feed for "ask metafilter" tagged empty sets returns an error. (For Example.) I wanted to add a bunch of esoteric tag links to google reader that would allow me to answer those questions that I consider myself an expert in. This works fine in those situations where questions currently exist for the specified tag, but not so good when nobody has asked a question about that subject before.
posted by seanyboy on Jul 9, 2007 - 11 comments

Is there a way to not receive posts matching a given tag? [details inside]
posted by avriette on Feb 11, 2007 - 36 comments

AskMeFi RSS feed: Could use some sort of delineation between the question text and the More Inside text.
posted by staggernation on Jan 30, 2007 - 14 comments

For some reason the Ask Metafilter RSS feed quit working for me a few days ago. I'm reading it through Bloglines and the last post which shows up is from November 22, 2006 at 6:54am. Is anyone else seeing this issue?
posted by dgeiser13 on Nov 26, 2006 - 13 comments

It's a pony, but one a lot of people would want to ride, I hope.

I'd love to see an RSS feed of the comments of AskMe questions I post (and for that matter, blue and grey too, though separately), so that I can keep an eye on the responses to me over time.
posted by Kickstart70 on Nov 23, 2006 - 7 comments

Er, is there a problem with the AskMe RSS feed? I haven't gotten anything in at least two days, despite MeFi and MeTa feeds working fine.

I'm viewing in Google Reader, if that matters.
posted by Chrysostom on Nov 15, 2006 - 10 comments

Just in case you were wondering "how often is that AskMe feed really borked, anyway?" [more inside]
posted by AmbroseChapel on Aug 20, 2006 - 104 comments

Just to keep you up to date, the AskMe RSS feed was invalid at

• Wed Jul 19 22:00 EST
• Thu Jul 20 08:00 EST
• Thu Jul 20 08:30 EST
• Thu Jul 20 09:00 EST
• Thu Jul 20 10:00 EST
• Thu Jul 20 15:00 EST
• Fri Jul 21 05:00 EST
• Fri Jul 21 05:30 EST
• Fri Jul 21 06:00 EST
• Fri Jul 21 06:30 EST
• Fri Jul 21 07:00 EST
• Sat Jul 22 09:30 EST
• Sat Jul 22 10:00 EST

posted by AmbroseChapel on Jul 22, 2006 - 21 comments

Sigh. I think the ask.metafilter rss is borked again.

I get this message:

XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 1, Character: 0)

with no updates for the last 3+ hours. Not that I'm addicted or anything.
unexpected text (non-whitespace text outside root element)
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
posted by filmgeek on Jul 11, 2006 - 7 comments

Is it just me, or is the AskMe RSS Feed reported to be broken on BlogLines more often than not?

"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 AmbroseChapel on Jun 29, 2006 - 20 comments

Ask feed in Bloglines has been borked all weekend.

feedvalidator gives the following warning:

This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing these problems.

line 525, column 58: title should not contain HTML: north New Brunswick & Gaspé Peninsula [help]

< title> north New Brunswick & Gaspé Peninsula
posted by achmorrison on Jun 25, 2006 - 6 comments

Love/Hate: I can't read AskMeFi (CSS help?). Does anyone have an external CSS file or a setting or a magic pixie dust that makes these pages we're on more readable?

I tried posting this question to askmefi, but got prompted with a "prob better on metatalk" denial. There is no Category for help, so I'm putting this under feature requests...

I'm using firefox (which offers more solutions) to read these pages and I find the colors, indentation, lack of structure so hard to follow. I would love something that had alternating row (posts) colors and a way to really tell the difference between a post, a comment, a response, whatever.

Any usability specialists out there with the same beef? I love the content, its just the presentation that drives me batty. (I do use RSS to choose what to read, but once I click in...boomsucka...I feel like I'm in a all green library with green books green carpeting a couple yellow magazines and no cataloging of any sort.

I've got this "developer" extension for firefox installed so I can change/tweak/alter a lot of things including fonts, external css files, whatever. Please send help...I'm sinking.
posted by wogbat on Jun 13, 2006 - 20 comments

Is the AskMeFi RSS feed intermittently dropping questions?
posted by Melinika on Jun 6, 2006 - 6 comments

RSS feed for AskMeFi broken in Bloglines.
posted by Gamblor on Mar 23, 2006 - 10 comments

RSS error on ask.me reads: (mi)
posted by bigmusic on Mar 21, 2006 - 5 comments

AskMe rss not working?
posted by team lowkey on Mar 17, 2006 - 3 comments

Is anyone else getting "Connection Failure" from the AskMe RSS feed?
posted by blag on Mar 11, 2006 - 2 comments

I wish there were a "notify me of follow-ups", especially on AskMeFi
posted by lrivers on Mar 8, 2006 - 12 comments

AskMeFi RSS feed broken in Bloglines. Regular MeFi feed working fine.
posted by Dean King on Mar 4, 2006 - 13 comments

AskMe RSS feed isn't working. It's linking to MeFi.
posted by trey on Feb 14, 2006 - 4 comments

It's broke again. The Ask.Mefi RSS isn't updating.

the XML yields:
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://ask.metafilter.com/rss.xml
Line Number 156, Column 18:
posted by filmgeek on Jan 1, 2006 - 4 comments

Request: An RSS feed for Best Marked Answers page

http://ask.metafilter.com/bestanswers.cfm
posted by unceman on Dec 28, 2005 - 3 comments

Google's new RSS reader might be pretty useful for following ask metafilter (screenshot). You can click the little star to mark a thread as a favorite.
posted by mathowie on Oct 7, 2005 - 14 comments

Can we have a separate RSS feed showing only answered questions?
posted by Mwongozi on May 20, 2005 - 6 comments

When I subscribe to the Ask Metafilter rss feed (using Firefox's Live Bookmark feature) only the title tags show, making the list come up as Question #123523, Question #675745, etc. Could the description tag be copied to the title tag in the RSS feed? Maybe the first 25 characters and then a "..." if necessary? Is there another way of seeing questions using this? Thanks.
posted by zelphi on Dec 23, 2004 - 4 comments

Individual RSS/Atom feeds for Ask MeFi would be a good place to test the feasibility for the rest of the MeFi network. Besides, at the moment - Ask Mefi is the site that has the most need for people to easily track responses to their posts. It's also the least trafficed of the 3 sites, (I believe) and will allow Matt to get a decent idea of how implementing individual feeds will affect the entire site.

Or....just do a drive for a new processor/ram for the server so we can implement them across all 3 sites. ;)
posted by bkdelong on Dec 13, 2004 - 2 comments

RSS for AskMefi and MeTa: Do they exist or am I just missing them? If they don't exist, can we have RSS-flavored ponies? If they do exist, can they be made more plain? How many past discussions of this topic have I missed? What other interesting facts will I learn inside? Fezzy minds want to know.
posted by Fezboy! on Dec 8, 2004 - 11 comments

AskMeFi-related: Would it be possible to change the RSS feed from AskMeFi to put an excerpt of the question in the title tag, or whatever it is that's appearing in my Thunderbird newsreader as "Question number [#]"?
posted by Big Fat Tycoon on Nov 30, 2004 - 6 comments

So, I'm addicted to Ask, aka the green.

What I really want to do is subscribe to the comment threads - when a new post occurs, I want someone to run into my office (my home, my bedroom, whatever) and shout up and down the answer is here. Or there was a followup question. (6 new) just doesn't help - especially if a thread a scrolled off page.

Or it could be a little link on the homepage (customized for me for threads I'm watching/participating in.)
posted by filmgeek on Nov 11, 2004 - 3 comments

I've just started playing around with NetNewsWire Lite, and was wondering... are there RSS feeds for MetaTalk and AskMe?

I've been searching, but maybe I've been looking in the wrong place...

Thanks.
posted by jpburns on Oct 31, 2004 - 5 comments

The Ask Metafilter RSS feed seems to be displaying anonymous questions before they are approved to be displayed on the website itself. (Nobody panic, though; it does not reveal the identity of the person posing the question.)
posted by ook on Oct 14, 2004 - 3 comments

Are there separate RSS feeds available for Ask mefi and MeTa? And if no, why not? I've found the main MeFi feed, but nothing else.

Thanks.
posted by blindcarboncopy on Sep 30, 2004 - 9 comments

Could AskMe get an XML feed like the main site? Pretty please with a cherry on top?
posted by Masi on Sep 3, 2004 - 17 comments

I did not like the way the current AskMeFi RSS feed had the titles (Question xxx), so I created a new feed that shows the first 100 characters of the question as the title.

Here is the RSS 0.91 feed
posted by sebas on May 22, 2004 - 6 comments

Is there an AskMe rss feed?
posted by signal on Jan 13, 2004 - 5 comments

The MeFi RSS feed works great. While I can envision the reason(s) for ommitting this feature for metaTalk, wouldn't it make sense to have on for AskMeFi ?
posted by Fupped Duck on Dec 22, 2003 - 1 comment

Ask is very cool - but where's the RSS?
posted by LukeyBoy on Dec 10, 2003 - 15 comments