Shiny Donkey: Request for comment: Shiny RSS feeds

Request for comment: Shiny RSS feeds
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05/08/08 12:01 PM EST
posted by JER email web

Blearns is always ragging on this site's RSS feeds. Is there a standard syntax that I'm not following for maximum compatibility? Perhaps there's a tag that's missing or incorrect? Google Reader handles the feeds just fine and I never get duplicate articles (A List Apart) or a broken feed (Sports Pickle).

For your consideration, here's a typical item from my feed:

<item>
      <title>Stop the Clocks Chords and Lyrics</title>
      <link>http://www.shinydonkey.com/thread.aspx?Thread=698#msg2275</link>
      <dc:creator>JER <a href="mailto:webmaster@shinydonkey.com">email</a> <a href="http://www.shinydonkey.com/" target=_blank>web</a></dc:creator>
      <comments>http://www.shinydonkey.com/thread.aspx?Thread=698#msg2275</comments>
      <slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
      <guid>http://www.shinydonkey.com/thread.aspx?Thread=698#msg2275</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 01:09:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>some text here</description>
</item>

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05/08/08 03:46 PM EST
posted by nate web

I haven't seen any RSS issues...I seem to remember the original RSS complaints being that 1.) there was no comments feed and 2.) once there was a comments feed, that the original post wasn't included in the comments feed. Everything seems fine now.

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05/08/08 04:23 PM EST
posted by Doug1

I guess I was subscribed to XML II feed, which has comments. Is that the standard for a comments feed? I have really not messed with comments feeds before. And wasn't aware I was subscribed to the feed with comments when I subscribed, and was slightly annoyed at getting all those Lindsay Lohan comments when no real posts were happening :-o

But it seems to work fine for me in Bloglines as far as no dupes, etc.

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05/08/08 06:31 PM EST
posted by Blearns email web

I just didn't receive any updates on my Google Reader for months, but there were a few new posts or comments.

Also the "dc:creator" element doesn't seem to support HTML in Google Reader so it's a bit messed up.

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05/12/08 10:13 AM EST
posted by JER email web

Ah, there were no updates because the server security settings would constantly change, so my RSS writer never triggered because Network Service had no rights to the directory. That's yet another reason I switched to self hosting.

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