Broken RSS Feeds

February 1, 2007 1:11 PM

It appears that the RSS feeds are down. Obviously I can still get to the rest of the site, but Firefox's Live Bookmark feature is coming up with "Blank" instead. Other bookmarks are correctly updating. When I try to browse to the correct location, I time out. Started around noonish today, EST, I think. Before I wiped away my MetaFilter list by requesting the bookmark, the most recent story was the one about Ellen Feiss. I know this is happening to MeTa, MeFi, and AskMe.
posted by Xoder to Bugs at 1:11 PM (8 comments total)

I see at least MeTa and MeFi feeds properly here, FF 2.0, Ubuntu.
posted by Skorgu at 1:16 PM on February 1, 2007

Try the links explicitly in your browser:
MeFi, Ask, MeTa.
posted by Skorgu at 1:18 PM on February 1, 2007

Looks fine in LiveJournal's RSS reader.
posted by mkb at 1:23 PM on February 1, 2007

And now that I restarted Firefox it looks fine to me too. Close (and delete?) with extreme prejudice.
posted by Xoder at 1:25 PM on February 1, 2007

[EXTREME PREJUDICE]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:26 PM on February 1, 2007

[CONTENTS OF BRACKETS]
posted by cortex at 1:28 PM on February 1, 2007

OTOH, does this happen to anyone else? Occasionally I'll leave this machine on at work and after a few (2-3) days it simply fails to get any RSS or Gmail updates. Loading web pages still works. Running Win XP Pro with Firefox 2.0.0.1. Restarting fixes the issue.

No particularly interesting (read, not network-access-based) extensions save NewsFox, which I don't use and will likely uninstall shortly.

Strangely enough ForecastFox still has no problem grabbing the weather. And my del.icio.us extension doesn't care either.

Only thing I can think of is that I've got Meebo running in the background which is a continuously updating AJAX IM site.
posted by Xoder at 1:29 PM on February 1, 2007

Weird, ok closing...
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:41 PM on February 1, 2007