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filofel
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Feeds broken?

Post by filofel »

Did anyone else notice that the RSS / ATOM newsfeeds are broken?
According to Thunderbird, last time they worked for me was Nov 6th, 2006.

The feed
http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/newsfeed_rss.xml
now gives a page not found,

while the RSS and ATOM links in the upper right corner of page
http://www.reactos.org/en/newsletter_14.html

have been changed and now contain
http://www.reactos.org/en/newsfeed_rss.html
http://www.reactos.org/en/newsfeed_atom.html

none of which looks very feedish to me (nor to Thunderbird...)
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Post by frik85 »

Please try out the following links:
http://www.reactos.org/en/newsfeed_rss.xml
http://www.reactos.org/en/newsfeed_atom.xml

The linking seems to be a bug, I will fix it soon. The issues have been introduces as we switched to version 2 of page-generator. I have tried to test most of the website, everything I have tested worked fine.
As I don't usually use news feeds, I simply forgot to test them. :oops:
No one else has mentioned something.

Thanks a lot for reporting the issues.
filofel
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Post by filofel »

Actually, I only discovered by chance that something was broken: I didn't see any Thunderbird complaint about the broken link, I just didn't have any ReactOS news message since last November. I found out I was missing stuff while browsing the site.

Hmmmm...
When I try to add this to my Thunderbird News Feeds, Thunderbird pops an "Alert" dialog box saying:

http://www.reactos.org/en/newsfeed_rss.xml is not a valid RSS feed.

Ditto with the Atom link.

When using
http://www.reactos.org/en/newsfeed_rss.xml
from FireFox, Firefox seems to recognize this as an RSS feed. But OTOH, what it displays doesn't really matches what the xml source shows. And I'm not knowledgeable enough in RSS stuff to see what's wrong there.
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Post by frik85 »

I have seen that too, it's because of the content is not escaped, means that some characters are not allowed in XML syntax and need a conversation. I will fix it, when I have time.
filofel
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Post by filofel »

Ah! Clue:
What I see in Firefox is merely the link and description for first <item> of the four that are on the page ('ReactOS News - ReactOS Website back online again').
The next 3 items don't even appear.

Comparing the xml with valid feeds from other sources, like
http://www.alex-ionescu.com/?feed=rss2
it looks like it expects real articles there rather than links.
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Re: Feeds broken?

Post by LRN »

Are they broken again? http://www.reactos.org/en/newsfeed_rss.xml shows that last newsletter is #44, while it should be #46
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Re: Feeds broken?

Post by bz00mmer »

I create RSS feed for ReactOS news, updating 3 times per day.
http://www.ponyfish.com/feeds/42339PfsgkZZn
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Re: Feeds broken?

Post by coldReactive »

LRN wrote:Are they broken again? http://www.reactos.org/en/newsfeed_rss.xml shows that last newsletter is #44, while it should be #46
It seems to be fixed now. By the way, these RSS can't be saved to the PSP, since the PSP needs a special RSS reader to read NORMAL RSS Feeds. Which I find annoying.
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