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Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Matth Nortwan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:14:10 -0000

but not instrested..

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Tony — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:19:23 -0000

For those saying that their feed is cut off, read the comments here:
http://wordpress.org/suppor...
There's a fix there that helped me - maybe it will work for you too.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

eu führerschein — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:25:45 -0000

On mine it kuts off the description after a certian number of charters, it is somewere around 300 charters with spaces. I want ot use it so i can jsut update my blog, so i can grab that feed for my web page on my business.

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Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

theh — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:16:34 -0000

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Greg Caulder — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:55:38 -0000

The link for your old feed in the blob that is posted here is at http://radio.weblogs.com/00..., how did you get it to not cut off the description?

My feed is at http://www.door2doortechsol...

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Greg Caulder

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

George Brisbin — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:04:10 -0000

Your rss feed worked in Opera 8.5 with no problems

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Brad Gibson — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:34:14 -0000

Oh man, look what happened to my comment! Thanks Wordpress if I wrap a word in a "less than" and a "greater than" symbol to denote a tag, the word disappears. Great.

Here is what the post is supposed to have said:
Why does WordPress insist on putting the full text in content:encoded tags? Dave Winer’s site has full text in description tags; so isn’t that the right way to do it? I mean, come on, it’s self-evident. Drupal does not see the full text because it is looking at the description tags. Unless you go back to full text the way it use to be Robert, I will be pulling you out of my news feeds. Keep pushing WordPress

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Brad Gibson — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:31:24 -0000

Why does WordPress insist on putting the full text in tags? Dave Winer's site has full text in tags; so isn't that the right way to do it? I mean, come on, it's self-evident. Drupal does not see the full text because it is lookin at the tags. Unless you go back to full text the way it use to be Robert, I will be pulling you out of my news feeds. Keep pushing WordPress

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Geodog — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 03:27:13 -0000

You were a little mean, Scoble. You don't usually dis people this bad.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Matt Mullenweg — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:09:18 -0000

If anyone is still following this thread I tried to summarize the responses a few days ago here, I just forgot to ping this entry directly:

Scoble Sucks (and WordPress RSS)

(We don't think he sucks of course, just continuing the hyperbole.)

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Adrian — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:37:37 -0000

The RSS isn't broken Robert, it's just a little different than what you're expecting. The description is your excerpt and the content encoded is your full post. It's done this way so you can have characters embedded that rss itself doesn't support. It also allows you to have the rich tagging in your post that rss doesn't necessarily support either. Just about every feed reader I've used recognizes it and knows what to do with it, and it does validate.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Steve — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:17:50 -0000

I use SharpReader, and since the switch I've been getting this error sporadically:

"Error reading URL: The underlying connection was closed: The server committed an HTTP protocol violation."

I also run a WordPress-powered site but I have never seen this error on my own feed (mind you, I'm running WordPress on my own server, not as a hosted solution).

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

VxJasonxV — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:39:59 -0000

@domain:
It's an open option in the Wordpress Admin Panel.
No hacking involved besides clicking a radio button, and clicking submit.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

domain — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:38:49 -0000

i read there is hacking to get full posts in RSS2 ?
is this true?

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Scott — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:18:07 -0000

"No one was bad off. Weblogs.Com sites moved to Buzzword.Com after a couple of days. Sheesh."

Way to miss the point RC.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Aaron — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:08:23 -0000

Feed has always worked great in RSS Bandit.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

weiyen — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:27:20 -0000

always has worked in Feed Demon right from day 1.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Mark Napper — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:19:21 -0000

Works fine in Newsgator for outlook. Always has.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Phil Ringnalda — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:54:36 -0000

"I never got complaints" isn't a perfect measure of how good something is: for a while, when I was using Bloglines, I set my subscriptions to show "Summaries if Available" so I could quickly skim through, opening interesting posts in a browser tab. Since your feed didn't have separate summaries and full content, I had to scroll past your whole posts when they were on something that didn't interest me, but since I knew you were using a tool that wouldn't produce more flexible RSS, I didn't complain.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Roger Benningfield — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:33:09 -0000

Robert: Hosted services have to pick reasonable defaults for all customers. The fact that the default doesn't suit your specific needs doesn't mean it "sucks".

You know this, of course. So I'm left wondering why you'd waste time with virtiol instead of simply asking how to tweak the default.

"I just tried my Atom feed and I couldn’t even get it to load up in the browser. That certainly is not good usability..."

Agreed. That means your aggregator is broken.

When you request a properly-served Atom or RSS file, your desktop aggregator should launch and help you subscribe to it. Unless you use a web-based aggregator, in which case you should be clicking your autodiscovery bookmark instead of playing "hunt the feed".

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Gary Potter — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:02:28 -0000

I don't know that sucks is correct, how about inconsistent? I've been online for the past seven hours and my reader just picked up this post along with 19 others. Sometimes they're timely, sometimes they're not.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Damon — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:15:55 -0000

I read your feed through SharpReader, and I've had no problems with it whatsoever...

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Tim — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:59:52 -0000

eek Monday morning and I'm a bit slow..

Actually just checked my feed and I have the same issue - truncated post...I remember now I tried the full post WP function and got nada...it's very odd. Let us know if you find a solution...

It's odd because aggregated sites from my feed, such as Podcastalley et al show the full post? Curiouser and curiouser...

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Tim — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:55:30 -0000

I've had discussion with Matt via Dave Winer about the WP RSS feeds, the implementation regarding enclosures and podcasting usability is terrible - it turns all links to files as enclosures - not just the first or one...great functionality if you need it; if not you can't turn it off or delete the extra enclosures...in a Douglas Adams way the 'delete' button just serves to make you feel better about your life, but doesn't actually delete. So I followed Ben over at Tracks up the Tree and intentionally 'broke' that function...not great, and I'm not the first to do or say this.

I seem to remmeber I had to do some hacking to get full posts in RSS2 - initially I kept getting the summaries, NOT the post. There are two different WP functions, one for summaries and the other for posts, never the twain shall meet.

It's annoying, and a shame because WP is a great blogging platform...but for podcasting and for out-the-box it's got a long way to go...atm I can't really tell non-techy types to go WP when I know techy people have issues - WP's loss is Blogger's gain, sadly.

Re: WordPress.com’ RSS feeds suck

John — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:02:43 -0000

Yep, noticed your feed in Bloglines was down for a few days. Had to click on the main head to get through to your blog.

BTW I've had the same problem with RSS2 on my standard Wordpress blog (via Fantastico). I set it to full text, but nothing happened for a few days, then a partial feed arrived in tha aggregators. So it's a generic problem, not just Wordpress.com.