As mentioned, I know very little about RSS, Atom, feeds, etc. but just try to take the minimum steps needed to make sure readers can follow the site that way if they wish. This note from a reader in Australia is not the first to indicate that our software upgrade and site redesign of recent weeks may have caused some disruption:
I hope you’ll accept my apology in advance, but it just occurred to me today that I hadn’t had any feeds from you for quite some time now. I use Bloglines as my newsreader. I tried to resubscribe to Overlawyered using a different type of feed and that seemed successful, but when I looked at what had been supplied with the different type of feed, all of the material was from mid-March. Are you able to throw any light on this? Is there some problem with Bloglines and Overlawyered? Is there something I can do to restore the feeds? Thanks for any assistance.
Knowledgeable comments welcome.
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I ran into the same issue, the last item for the longest time was “Rolling Redesign” or something like that. I unsubscribed and resubscribed, and I have all the latest headlines again.
I use google as my reader so it sounds like more than a Bloglines issue.
Must be a Bloglines issue. I use Sage RSS reader for Firefox; all feeds are up to date and there was no interruption during your site remodeling. Also, as a test, I just subscribed using the built-in feed subscription feature in IE7 and Firefox Live Bookmarks, the feeds are up to date on both of those.
Our correspondent sends another note: “Thank you very much. I’ll try unsubscribing altogether and start from scratch.”
I can confirm that this works. This is General Tech Support Principle #1: “Turn it off; then turn it on again.” It works about 50% of the time. Ted Frank can check my math.
Unfortunately, it does not work for automobiles, teenagers or spouses.