Note to livejournal people

Please stop writing and asking me to resume blogging. I never stopped.

For some reason the lj feed of my blog is broken and has no posts after 18 December. So while I have blogged every day since then none of those posts have shown up on that feed. I have no idea why and no idea how to fix it.

Perhaps one of you lj people knows how to fix it? I’d be much obliged.

Sadly, though my writing about this here is completely useless given that lj people rarely venture outside the world of lj. Oh well.

Posted by Justine at 21:35, 2 January 2009 under Admin, Bloggery | 15 Comments »

Comments

El Says:

I just followed your link and a link or two beyond it. It says there’s a parse error; every once in a while, for no reason I’ve ever been able to understand, LJ feeds will get a parse error. As long as the post with the error is still extant, the RSS feed doesn’t work. Once the post rolls off (generally when 25 posts have succeeded it) everything will suddenly come back as though it had never gone anywhere.

Afraid my RSS-fu isn’t good enough to actually do anything about it, though.

January 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 pm
2. Justine Says:

El: Actually, that’s really helpful. Now I know what to say to the people bugging me. Bless you!

January 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Harriet Says:

Actually, it’s not just Livejournal – my Google Reader stopped picking up the feed as well. Once I realised you hadn’t stopped blogging, I had to unsubscribe and then resubscribe to get it working again.

January 2nd, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Julia Says:

You are coming through loud and clear in Bloglines, and you have 117 of us subscribed there.

January 2nd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Cheryl Says:

If you are on WordPress you might want to consider using the LiveJournal cross-post plug-in which automatically sends everything you write to a LiveJournal account. I use it, and I think Jay does too. It is not perfect because occasionally LJ throws a fit and blocks everything, but at least you get an error message when it does. Email me if you want details.

PS Sorry about the cricket: disasterville.

January 3rd, 2009 at 12:04 am
David Cook Says:

Actually, you have two feeds on LJ – larbalestier.livejournal.com (the one which isn’t updating), and justinelarbales.livejournal.com, which is updating correctly, because that’s how I’ve ended up at this post.
“larbalestier” seems to be using this URL for the feed :
http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/wp-rss2.php
And “justinelarbales” uses this URL :
http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?feed=rss2

Also, on the “larbalestier” info page on LJ, it has the following syndication status :
Last checked: 2009-01-03 08:27:24 (Parse error)
Error Message: 404 Not Found

I’m not familiar with the details of setting up RSS feeds in (I’m guessing) WordPress, but have there been any upgrades or configuration changes made … around the 18th of December ?

January 3rd, 2009 at 4:17 am
Karen Mahoney Says:

I’m one of those pesky LJ peeps, but I hate LJ feeds and always read non-LJ blogs through Google Reader (*loves Google Reader*). I’ve had no problems with Justine’s posts with GR, so I don’t know why Harriet’s feed stopped coming through…

Anyway, Happy New Year Justine!

January 3rd, 2009 at 4:35 am
Dave H. Says:

Some of us LJ people wander into the bigger world of the InterWeb from time to time, but it is scary!

I use Bloglines for RSS feeds, and it did have a burp with yours a few weeks ago. I had to unsubscribe and resubscribe – I’d guess that’s when the LJ feed broke.

(If I remember correctly, you blogged about having some kind of troubles with the website at the same time. The two are probably related.)

January 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Annalee Flower Horne Says:

As noted above, http://syndicated.livejournal.com/justinelarbales/ comes through just fine. The other 11 subscribers and I don’t seem to have experienced any interruption.

January 3rd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Liz Says:

I opened an LJ support request to get the feed URL changed as the old one doesn’t seem to be working – hopefully that will sort it.

January 5th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Angie Says:

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/larbalestier/profile
Just pulled a bunch of posts, so it must be working again.

January 5th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Harry Connolly Says:

Now, if only someone could sort out Nathan Branford’s LJ feed.

January 6th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Karen Smith Says:

Venturing out of LJ to comment directly…so THAT’S why my LJ is suddenly full of Justine bloggeration! A lot to catch up on, to be sure, but I’m glad it’s working now.

January 6th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Jennifer Says:

The bloglines feed I was using stopped updating, I had to resign up.

January 7th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Stephanie Leary Says:

Hey, guys… Justine’s web person here. I finally figured out what was going on with this — basically, WordPress used to automatically redirect the old feed URLs to the new ones, but it doesn’t in the latest version. I had upgraded WordPress on, you guessed it, December 18.

Anyway, I’m now manually redirecting those old feed URLs, and any subscriptions still using them should get a flood of posts… right about now.

January 23rd, 2009 at 2:23 pm