Tuesday
Apr082008
Does anybody use the "combo feed"?
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 7:34PM
The blog provides three feeds, at least in theory. There is the main "Entries" feed, the "Comments" feed, and then a third feed that is supposed to provide Entries and Comments jammed into a single feed.
That third feed has been broken for a couple of months now (since my last Wordpress upgrade). It's working again sort of, but I don't think it lists comments anymore (so it's basically a duplicate of the Entries feed.) The first two feeds are provided in a "stock" Wordpress install. The third I had hacked together. I'm not sure why it's not working now, but I'm also sort of thinking "Well if nobody is using it then I'm just going to drop it."
So that's the question. Is there anybody using the Combo Entries+Comments feed? If there is, I can certainly make it work right again. But if nobody is using it, then I'm going to drop it as one less thing to worry about.
That third feed has been broken for a couple of months now (since my last Wordpress upgrade). It's working again sort of, but I don't think it lists comments anymore (so it's basically a duplicate of the Entries feed.) The first two feeds are provided in a "stock" Wordpress install. The third I had hacked together. I'm not sure why it's not working now, but I'm also sort of thinking "Well if nobody is using it then I'm just going to drop it."
So that's the question. Is there anybody using the Combo Entries+Comments feed? If there is, I can certainly make it work right again. But if nobody is using it, then I'm going to drop it as one less thing to worry about.
tagged Administrivia, RSS in Blog Administration
Administrivia, RSS in Blog Administration 
Reader Comments (7)
Not me! (Entries only)
I think I use two different feeds: entries and comments.
But I did notice a couple days ago that my RSS reader had stopped picking anything up a couple weeks back. I was going to let you know that it seemed broken, but all of a sudden it picked up all of the "new" content.
My reader now seems somewhat intermittent. For example, my reader may not pick anything up, but if I go to your blog page directly via a browser, I see a new entry. Later, my RSS reader picks up that entry. So, eh, WTF?
I can try to pay closer attention, if you care.
Well, sure I'd be interested in any more details about oddness if you see them. I've definitely noticed that the comment feed seems to only update when I post a new entry, not when new comments appear. I don't think I've ever noticed anything squirrely with the Entries feed. I wonder if you've actually got the so-called Combo feed, which now looks like a copy of the entry feed. For the record, the entry feed should be this URL: http://www.hiddenjester.com/~tsanders/?feed=rss2 (and http://www.hiddenjester.com/~tsanders/?feed=comments-rss2 for the comments).
There's also a major new Wordpress version available, so maybe I should look into upgrading.
I did use the combined feed. Then I gave switched off it a couple weeks ago when I figured out that you'd actually been posting stuff and the feed was broken. So while I did use it, I can't say that it would somehow be an advantage to switch back.
Heh. People if you find out something on the site is *broken*, let me know! Otherwise you're waiting for me to notice it, and I don't really use the combo feed, since I know about both posts and comments via other channels.
Having said that, if nobody says "I really want the combo feed" then I'm going to disable it.
I'm using the combo feed, but haven't been keeping up with my RSS reading until today.
Testing a change to the combo feed.