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RSS Feed help?

24th July 2008

RSS Feed help?

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I don’t know much about how RSS feeds work… but evidently when I switched the blog from being at the front page (joyfulabode.com) to joyfulabode.com/blog, something got messed up and I lost a LOT of subscribers (their feeds aren’t being updated).

I run my feed through feedburner and have updated the feed source address from joyfulabode.com/feed to joyfulabode.com/blog/feed and it seems to be working through feedburner… (when I plug in either feed address, it gives me the updated feed).

But my subscribers are still missing, about 250 of them. Anyone know what might’ve happened? Or other things I could try to fix it? I like having a new front page to act as the “hub” for my site, so I don’t really want to put the blog back where it was before.

If you don’t know but you know someone who might, please pass this problem on! I’d love any help I can get.

Thanks so much!

PS If you’re subscribed and you can still see this, how did you subscribe to the feed? If you’re no longer getting RSS updates from Joyful Abode and you came to the site to see this, what method is no longer working?

Edited to add: I just realized that the livejournal syndicated account isn’t updating, and that’s nearly 150 subscribers right there. So I put in a support request to livejournal, and hopefully they’ll fix it soon! I’m still missing about 100 other subscribers… I think feedblitz might be part of the problem. I’m not sure what else though.

Edited again 7-25: I fixed the feedblitz problem, but I’m still waiting to hear from livejournal about the syndicated feed there.

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  1. 1 On July 24th, 2008, sherri said:

    I subscribe to your blog via GoogleReader. Saw this post just fine. Good luck.

  2. 2 On July 24th, 2008, Joyful Abode said:

    Thanks, Sherri. That’s helpful!

  3. 3 On July 25th, 2008, LynnSF (UK) said:

    Hi

    I have your blog posts through an RSS reader - got this post OK. I have NewsGator reader and including myself it says Joyful Abode has 4 subscribers.

    Best wishes, Lynn (UK)

  4. 4 On July 25th, 2008, Joyful Abode said:

    Thanks, Lynn! I’ve never heard of NewsGator before!
    I love that feedburner will tell me who is subscribing to Joyful Abode from all the different subscription methods. Otherwise I’d never know I had this many “followers”!

  5. 5 On July 26th, 2008, Kim said:

    Eep, I thought you were just really busy and hadn’t been updating! They’re showing up on the livejournal feed again now though =)

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