I’m sorry about the recent deluge of old posts in the RSS feed.
In case you haven’t visited the site recently, last week I launched a completely redesigned Hivelogic, ditching my old blogging tool in favor of ExpressionEngine. Of course there’s more to this story, due in an upcoming post.
Rather than wait until then to spill the beans about this change however, and as much as I enjoy your fervent and sometimes frustrated emails, I’ve decided to let you (my patient readers) know that I’m aware of the recent double-post of ancient articles. It doesn’t have to do with the new publishing system so much as a change in the way I was encoding the content, which was slightly incompatible with Google Reader. Changing the publishing system also changed the unique ID’s used for the posts, potentially causing a second set of posts to appear new in your reader.
Fortunately, with the fix in place and a more reliable tool at my disposal, we can put this mess behind us. It shouldn’t happen again.
Onward.
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JB
30 March 2009 at 7:32 pm
I’m amazed people get upset at trivial things like that. A quick “mark all as read” and problem solved. It wasted maybe 2 seconds of my time, something I expect no apologies for ;-)
Keep up the great writing.
joecab
30 March 2009 at 8:35 pm
Anyone with an RSS feed knows this happens ALL THE TIME; I’m surprised they even bothered complaining. Don’t worry about it.
One good thing came out of it: it reminded me to buy the Voyager Q Drive Dock to finally get my long ovedue backup plan started.
Francois
31 March 2009 at 8:30 am
it seems every time you change your “feed sponsor”, Google Reader pops up all 10 or 15 last posts as if they were new
Dmitry
31 March 2009 at 12:01 pm
Happens all the time to all of us :) No worries—as JB says, 1 click on “Mark all as read” fixes it. Incredible to see people complain about this.
Colin Devroe
31 March 2009 at 8:09 pm
Thank. Goodness.