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Do You Read This Blog Using an RSS Reader? [Updated]

by Joey deVilla on Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:04 AM EST | Permanent Link | Cosmos

[Update at end of article]

If so, I need you help trying to solve a little problem here. I've received a few emails telling me that my RSS feed is showing only the titles of my entries. This seems to be the case on the Mac, but not Windows.

If you can, could you please look at my RSS feed and report in the comments what platform you're using, what you're using to view the RSS feed and whether you see whole articles or just the titles? Thanks.

Update: It looks as though there's a problem with the RSS feeds for a number of Blogware-based blogs. The Blogware team's looking into it right now. Hopefully, they'll be able to resolve the issue soon.

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Re: Do You Read This Blog Using an RSS Reader?

by extra88 on Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:18 AM EST | Profile | Permanent Link

This morning I found in (OS X program) NetNewsWire Lite 2.0b23 that some older articles had reappeared with only headlines. I found the same thing at work in (Windows .NET Framework program) SharpReader v0.9.5.1.

Looking at your index.xml right now, it does indeed lack the body of your articles.

Re: Do You Read This Blog Using an RSS Reader?

by Anonymous on Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:20 AM EST | Permanent Link

Windows user here, no descriptions in your feed.

Re: Do You Read This Blog Using an RSS Reader?

by Anonymous on Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:21 AM EST | Permanent Link

Mac 10.3.8 NetNewsWire Lite 2.0b23
The full text disappeared yesterday, I think at the same time that all the posts in AccordionGuy suddenly appeared as unread.

Bloglines is showing different behavior:
All posts older than "Reminder: PUBLICity This Thursday!" show the full text, but the Reminder and more recent posts show only titles.

~~Charles No Longer By The Charles
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Re: Do You Read This Blog Using an RSS Reader?

by Anonymous on Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:22 AM EST | Permanent Link

Mac user of NewNewsWire - only the headline, no body.

Re: Do You Read This Blog Using an RSS Reader?

by Anonymous on Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:23 AM EST | Permanent Link

you need to include and excerpt of the beginning of the entry in a description tag. but rss protocol has a limit on how much you can put in the description field...if you exceed the limit, it's erronous rss and won't be read correctly.

Re: Do You Read This Blog Using an RSS Reader?

by Anonymous on Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:27 AM EST | Permanent Link

Using rss2email on Linux. Yeah, it shows only the URL, no summary for your entries, AG.

Dave.
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Re: Do You Read This Blog Using an RSS Reader?

by Anonymous on Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:29 AM EST | Permanent Link

NewsFire on OS X; just the titles. When I grab the feed with curl, all entries have empty description elements.

Re: Do You Read This Blog Using an RSS Reader?

by Anonymous on Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:33 AM EST | Permanent Link

I don't understand how some platforms could be seeing descriptions and some could not, since I don't see any descriptions in the feed itself (http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/index.xml).

Here's the RSS for this entry:

<item>
<dc:creator>Joey deVilla</dc:creator>
<title>Do You Read This Blog Using an RSS Reader?</title> <link>http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/3/15/436185.html</link> <guid>http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/3/15/436185.html</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description></description>

<category domain="http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/Announcements">Announcements
</item>