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dannycorkers
04-15-2009, 13:33
I did a quick search about this and didn't find anything but then again I'm not exactly sure about what I'm asking lol. I'm sure some of you use iGoogle, but if you don't I'll quickly explain. It basically lets you have RSS feeds (I think) on your google homepage that gives you links to the most recent articles on a selection of websites. This is my iGoogle for instance:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2549/igooglej.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/my.php?image=igooglej.jpg)
Now, in the top right you can see the feed for PS3Forums, which used to work great. However, some time recently it stopped updating any of the links (this has also happened to a friend of mine who has the feeds on his page) Now this may be because of the domain name change, I'm not sure, but does anyone know of any way to make it work again? Hope you know what I mean and thanks in advance lol :D
iGoogle rocks! it's interesting and loads fast. I mostly have the joke of the day and the weather.
It works fine for me. It updates when it needs to
Have you tried to re-add the feed or refresh the page
silentmemory
04-15-2009, 18:41
Perhaps Google isn't honouring the default TTL and polling the feed hourly. Perhaps someone recently changed how the feed is generated and neglected to incorporate the TTL element, perhaps adding it would fix the problem. Or perhaps that's nothing to do with anything :lol:
In the meantime you might try a different aggregator.
*edit: Check your feed URL:
PSU: - http://feeds2.feedburner.com/LatestNews-Psucom
Forums: - http://www.psu.com/forums/external.php?f=0
Aksirly, that second one has TTL, so perhaps that's not the problem. Someone really should sort that CSS out though, it's gopping.
chartwel
04-15-2009, 22:38
i am in the same position. ps3forums never updates for me. hasnt for months. started using firefox rss brief and still the same problem. very unfortunate.
silentmemory
04-15-2009, 23:43
i am in the same position. ps3forums never updates for me. hasnt for months. started using firefox rss brief and still the same problem. very unfortunate.
There are a small number of improvements which could be made to the Forums feed which might improve its compatibility with various aggregators.
The PSU feed doesn't even validate.
dannycorkers
04-16-2009, 12:26
There are a small number of improvements which could be made to the Forums feed which might improve its compatibility with various aggregators.
The PSU feed doesn't even validate.
The link you gave made PS3Forums work again thanks :) And on the PSU one, clicking on news stories works but if I click on 'Latest News - PSU.com' the URL is wrong lol. It comes up as www.PSU.com>/ which obviously doesn't work. Is that what you mean with validating?
silentmemory
04-16-2009, 13:58
The link you gave made PS3Forums work again thanks :) And on the PSU one, clicking on news stories works but if I click on 'Latest News - PSU.com' the URL is wrong lol.
Dunno what you're trying to say, the PSU feed works to click on, as do the links within it.
Is that what you mean with validating?
No, I mean its formatting is broken: http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds2.feedburner.com%2 FLatestNews-Psucom
Igoogle is great for getting the latest news.
dannycorkers
04-16-2009, 19:20
Dunno what you're trying to say, the PSU feed works to click on, as do the links within it.
No, I mean its formatting is broken: http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds2.feedburner.com%2 FLatestNews-Psucom
This is how it is for me lol :S
http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/8210/76100023.jpg (http://img2.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76100023.jpg)
The bit I put a red box around links to http://www.psu.com>/ for some reason, even using the link that you gave me.
silentmemory
04-16-2009, 23:15
The bit I put a red box around links to http://www.psu.com>/ for some reason, even using the link that you gave me.
Ah, that makes sense. Someone's mistakenly encoded a 'greater than' character in the channel link of that feed: <link>http://www.psu.com></link>
I subscribed to both earlier, seems the forum feed is updated every 3 hours, making it pretty much useless for any fast moving forums.
dannycorkers
04-17-2009, 18:21
Ah, that makes sense. Someone's mistakenly encoded a 'greater than' character in the channel link of that feed: <link>http://www.psu.com></link>
I subscribed to both earlier, seems the forum feed is updated every 3 hours, making it pretty much useless for any fast moving forums.
So there's no way to fix it? Oh well isn't too bad lol.
silentmemory
04-17-2009, 19:23
So there's no way to fix it? Oh well isn't too bad lol.
You could fix it if you knew scripting and had some web space to upload the amended feed to, but it would be a huge waste of your time and bandwidth for a problem so small ;)
It's almost certainly the fault of one of the PSU.com webmasters, although it's feasible that it could be a VBulletin or Feedburner bug. Someone should fix it for the sake of professionalism if nothing else, it's (likely) a 2 second fix but it's probably not high on their list. Chances are you're the first to even notice it.