Comments on: ProBlogger Feeds Down in Bloglines

By: Dick Costolo

Dick Costolo — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:58:52 +0000

Hey Darren, couple things – if anybody here ever simply blames another company for something without listing all the possible reasons some event might have occurred, email me about it. I hope in my personal email to you that I was clear about the myriad reasons that a feed might appear red-exclamationed at Bloglines. Could be that we didn’t have a valid version of your feed cached the last time they checked; could be that we timed out the last time they checked; could be that your feed just went off the rails there for some reason without an issue from us. As to the My Yahoo issue, I also see your feed correctly updated there, however, as I think the My Y! folks would tell you, they seem to have different caches for different feeds, and in rare instances, one may be correctly updated while another isn’t. Sometimes even just hitting shift-refresh does the trick on My Y! but I confess I haven’t had an issue like this in many months there.

As a general fyi for your readers (i know you know these), you can always check your feedmedic in FeedBurner to see if we’re having any source feed issues, and you can always check http://www.grabperf.org to see how FeedBurner is responding to feed requests. Grabperf’s an independent external monitoring system that Technrati hosts that checks on various blog related services. they’re a good way to verify whether some system is generally available and responsive or not.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:17:28 +0000

That’s strange Denise – it seems to come through ok on my MyYahoo…. very odd

By: Denise O'Berry

Denise O'Berry — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:45:54 +0000

Darren — I read you via My Yahoo! and they haven’t been updating your feed for quite some time. All I get is the title ” Pro Blogger.” Doesn’t stop me from coming over here and reading, but it sure would be nice if it was straightened out. :-) It’s been like this for a good couple of months now.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:27:44 +0000

thanks all – seems fine here also.

By: John Evans (Syntagma)

John Evans (Syntagma) — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:17:15 +0000

It’s just come back in Bloglines, Darren. At 10.15am GMT.

By: ~Dawn

~Dawn — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:14:38 +0000

I read the feed in bloglines at 1014GMT 2/16/06

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 05:02:13 +0000

It can read it via the b5media mega feed in Bloglines but not directly??? strange

By: Cary

Cary — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:07:23 +0000

Bloglines has been doing this to me quite a bit lately.

It’s not too big of a deal though, because they at least give you that little red “!” to let you know the feed’s not getting updated.

In fact, I noticed it and came right over :)

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:05:34 +0000

Darren, I got to this entry via Bloglines. Seems OK to me. And there’s no red exclamation mark next to your feed in my sidebar.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:05:25 +0000

Well they work okay in Feedlounge

By: Liam Daly

Liam Daly — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:54:31 +0000

Darren I read this as a feed ok in BlogLines – it’s the FeedBurner Feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney?m=1608