Broken feeds... 3

Posted by Janka 09/10/2009 at 21:44

I hear that Google Reader disses my blogs feeds again and mangles several posts into one.

This seems to happen at least to the atom feed, possibly in some cases to the RSS feed, if there is broken HTML in the post itself. Unfortunately in the update something's gotten borked with the markup, so broken HTML happens, especially with the CF posts that have superscripts inside italics inside paragrapgs inside blockquotes, because I have to do some of that manually.

RSS seems to be stabler than Atom. To use that, make sure the URL you use for the feed ends in ".rss", not in ".atom" (or unsubscribe from the feed and resuscribe using this link or the one in the sidebar).

I seriously wish I knew how to completely fix this, but I don't. Apologies for the inconvenince, and please keep me posted when things break, so I can maybe at some point finally figure out what breaks it exactly.

At least the comments should work now. Maybe.

  1. Jouni 09/10/2009 at 22:38

    One thing that could help is checking your feeds with http://beta.feedvalidator.org/, which currently shows that you have a blockquote and an em element interleaved with each other.

  2. Janka 09/10/2009 at 22:47

    Thanks. I thought of a validator but I was so irked about the stupid markup having become stupid that I could not be arsed to Google for one…

    EDITed to add: Fixed that mistake. Some others in there too that I simply CBA to go through manually as they are not visible in the blog interface. Currently terribly irked by this version of Typo, seems to have way too many bugs.

  3. Mikko 10/10/2009 at 08:47

    I haven’t had any of the problems you mention with Google Reader. But perhaps the reason for that is that I’ve just feeded the url to your site rather than rss or atom.