RSS Feeds Are Broken

Aardvark · 12-14-2007, 10:13 PM

About 10 days ago the RSS feeds stopped working. An example feed URL is http://www.nassaufdrant.com/forum/ex...2&forumids=23# that now returns a blank page. Any moderators that can fix them?

**Rant Boss** · 12-15-2007, 10:13 AM

I will have tech support look into it, it may take a few days.

Pugs135 · 12-15-2007, 10:41 AM

what are those feeds? how do they work?

***valdet*** · 12-15-2007, 03:45 PM

I just looked over the RSS2 Feeder and everything is looking good there.

You might have placed a wrong URL to the feed, as yours is

Code:

http://www.nassaufdrant.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=23#

and clearly it leads to nowhere.

The correct one should be in this format

Code:

http://www.nassaufdrant.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&amp;forumids=23

This code will provide you with the latest threads from Transmit the 10 forum as that is the correct forumid (23).

The general RSS2 feed URL is

Code:

http://www.nassaufdrant.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2

Best regards from Val.

Aardvark · 12-15-2007, 04:28 PM

To Pug135: RSS feeds allow you to monitor various forums for new messages using a newsreader such as those built into IE7 and Thunderbird, or a standalone reader such as GreatNews. It is an easy way of automating the search for new messages in the various forums without having to go and visit each forum in your web browser. Any messages you see can still be read through the web browser. I subscribe to many different newsfeeds on various websites and it is much easier to see a list of new headlines in a reader than it is to go and visit each individual web site. When I saw that this sites software supported RSS feeds I immediately plugged the links in to my reader to make getting updates easier. Unfortunately that only lasted about three weeks before the problem happened.

I went back and checked the URL above:

Code:

http://www.nassaufdrant.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&amp;forumids=23

but it returns the general RSS2 feed as if you do not specify any forum at all as in:

Code:

http://www.nassaufdrant.com/forum/external.php

I am pretty sure the "type" must be "rss2" in lower case as that is how the FAQ documents it:

Code:

http://www.nassaufdrant.com/forum/faq.php?s=&do=search&q=rss&match=all&titlesonly=0

and this forum software is the same as that used by two other sites I subscribe to and they use the same RSS URL format; wirelessadvisor.com and howardforums.com. The funny thing is one of these sites experienced the same RSS feed problem many months ago and I cannot for the life of me remember what the admin did to get them working again.

Manually entering the RSS URL for the Radio Room forum into IE returns a blank page rather than the XML output that it should:

Code:

http://www.nassaufdrant.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=24

For now the general feed is updating correctly.

Aardvark · 12-28-2007, 11:55 AM

Just an FYI for anyone who may be using the new iGoogle startup page introduced earlier this week at www.igoogle.com, you can add RSS feeds to your Google home page by going to http://www.google.com/ig/directory?h...t=/ig&dpos=top, clicking on "Add feed or gadget" and putting in

Code:

http://www.nassaufdrant.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2

for the link. If the other feeds eventually come back to life, you will be able to add the individual forums you wish to monitor as well.