RSS Feed issues in Google Reader

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Arithmomaniac · #1 Post by **Arithmomaniac** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:56 pm

80% of the posts in this site's RSS feedare missing when I use Google Reader. They show up using Firefox.

Any independent confirmation or help?
Thanks.

#2 Post by **Andrew Lee** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:23 am

Could you try http://www.portablefreeware.com/feedburner.php and let me know if it works with Google Reader?

Arithmomaniac · #3 Post by **Arithmomaniac** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:39 am

So far.
Thanks.

Arithmomaniac · #4 Post by **Arithmomaniac** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:44 am

Actually, that one stopped working too. Both have issues:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url= ... .com%2Fpfc
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url= ... burner.php[/url]

#5 Post by **Andrew Lee** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:59 am

I have just fixed the RSS feed. Thanks for letting me know.

Arithmomaniac · #6 Post by **Arithmomaniac** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:48 am

Just a minor issue. Can you fix it?
Thanks,
Arithmomaniac

#7 Post by **Andrew Lee** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:36 pm

Any idea what is the exact error?

I just validated the feed using Feed Validator and all seems well, except for two warnings that I always get.

keppo · #8 Post by **keppo** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:05 am

I can confirm that there still seems to be some problems with the feed in Google Reader.

Don't know where exactly seems the problem. My last entry is from "6 feb" before that is "26 jan".

When I use the feed in ie7 that everything seems ok and is proof that google is holding out on me.

I tried both the supplied feeds... different result but not as much as within IE7...

No error here from Google Reader.

Anything I can test over here? Any other info needed?

regards
Patrick

keppo · #9 Post by **keppo** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:37 am

Hmm my problem seems to be related to only the feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/pfc

The forum is working good for me because I saw my own entry on the forum within 15 min in GoogleReader.

hope this helps

#10 Post by **Andrew Lee** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:10 am

Just hazarding a guess. I remember reading that Google Reader does not report edited feed items as "New". Perhaps that could be the problem?

The TPFC feed items uses the same article ID for each app for updates. Maybe that's why updated apps are not showing up in Google Reader, since they are regarded as "edits"?

keppo · #11 Post by **keppo** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:16 pm

Perhaps your right, I really can tell.

I recieved yesterday 2 feed items. "7-Zip Portable V4.57" and "ImgBurn V2.4.0.0" which both claim to be updates in the header that is,

If your guess is right than these 2 shouldn't be edits but should have new ID's. Can you confirm that this is the case?

If so than there is probably nothing we can do to remedy this situation and I have to find another solution to reed the TPFC feed.

I'm also curious about the differences I noticed between the http://feeds.feedburner.com/pfc and the http://www.portablefreeware.com/feedburner.php feed. They differ from each other.
The last entry in I have in the first feed is Jnes V1.0 with has the [new] in the header so your guess could be right for this feed.

regards

#12 Post by **Andrew Lee** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:02 am

I recieved yesterday 2 feed items. "7-Zip Portable V4.57" and "ImgBurn V2.4.0.0" which both claim to be updates in the header that is,

If your guess is right than these 2 shouldn't be edits but should have new ID's. Can you confirm that this is the case?

Nope, they don't have new IDs. So my hypothesis is wrong.

Tell you what. I will sign up for a Google Reader account and see if I can figure out what's going on.

#13 Post by **Andrew Lee** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:50 pm

OK, I have fixed up the RSS feed for Google Reader.

*@&#^$ Google Reader is not satisfied that the item ID be different. It wants the URL to be different as well!

So I have added a timestamp parameter to each link that does nothing but caters to Google Reader's quirk. Now you should see every single item in the feed as it gets published.

keppo · #14 Post by **keppo** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:22 am

GREAT!!! 31 new/updated items!

Indeed that does the trick! Sorry for making your work so hard for it.

I thank you VERY much, for solving my issue!

Arithmomaniac · #15 Post by **Arithmomaniac** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:36 pm

Excellent. (I'll also take this advice to other sites).
Arithmomaniac

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