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Dear TypePad: Stop Breaking Your !@&$ing Feeds!
I woke up this morning to 32,152 new posts in my aggregator. See, Six Apart released a new version of TypePad last night. It allows for comment and trackback moderation (how very 2004…). In order for this to work, of course, they had to (for some reason) redo all of the feeds. As a result, I’m left with thousands upon thousands of new entries in feeds.
I’m not sure if this is at the platform level (ie: ALL TypePad feeds) or if it’s just as users turn it on.
Either way, I likely missed hundreds of valuable posts this morning.
Thanks SixApart. Way to screw everyone over. Again.
This kind of thing happens at the regular blog level all the time. It simply cannot happen at the platform level. People should know better, and this should be a major part of testing a new release.
Update: Anil from SixApart responds that this is most likely an aggregator-level issue. I’m not convinced, but I do appreciate him hopping over to leave a comment. It means a lot, and shows that SixApart hasn’t lost complete touch with the real world of blogging.
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about 6 years ago
Bloglines isn’t the best at showing updated entries (it defaults to showing them as new). You have tell it to ignore updated entries. Ideally there should be another choice, much like NetNewsWire where it shows the new stuff in green.
about 6 years ago
This is a little tongue in cheek, as I have been a dedicated LiveJournal user for quite some time now, but that’s what happens when you start co-mingling technologies.
about 6 years ago
“Thanks SixApart. Way to screw everyone over. Again.”
Sorry for the frustration you’ve had with the feeds, but best practices for reading feeds dictates that, for example, Atom clients with the same unique ID and last modified date *not* be treated as updated. It may be an issue you want to raise with whichever aggregator client you’re using.
Just curious, how did we screw anyone over in the past?
about 6 years ago
Anil: Thanks for the info. I guess Bloglines, Newsgator and Sharpreader aren’t using these best practices (I checked in all 3, to make sure it wasn’t just a Bloglines issue before posting).
Even if this was a Bloglines-level thing, it’s still the kind of thing you could have prevented, or at least tested for (and communicated with Ask about).
Ah well, if this is the only time it happens, I guess I can live with it. Mistakes happen.
about 6 years ago
Rubbish is all I can say about Anil’s comments, I mean seriously how can all the aggregators (I’m running a few in trial as well now) be wrong and SixApart right? And it’s a regular occurance with TypePad blogs as well: Steve Rubel’s blog seems to repeat itself every couple of weeks for example.
And to Anil, don’t play dumb: MT3.