Is the AskMeFi RSS feed b0rked?

July 31, 2006 2:47 AM

Is the AskMeFi RSS feed b0rked? Only I keep getting the same 150-odd posts in my bloglines...
posted by Happy Dave to Bugs at 2:47 AM (9 comments total)

I'm sure matt (or jess) will chime in that it was an illegal character, etc.

What I think is a more relevant question....

Is why the Ask.mefi feed gets borked (several times in the last month) and the blue and gray do not?
posted by filmgeek at 3:21 AM on July 31, 2006

I've stopped bothering to ask about the Askme feed. It dies pretty much daily with bloglines, and then suddenly 100 questions will show up at once.
posted by antifuse at 4:09 AM on July 31, 2006

Yeah, I got a truckload of new questions too for the tag feeds.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 4:22 AM on July 31, 2006

I have the same thing happening! It's not even new questions, it's the same ones over and over. The newest post dates to the 27th.
posted by divabat at 4:32 AM on July 31, 2006

Agreed Divabat, I've been seeing the same ones over and over too
posted by Happy Dave at 4:57 AM on July 31, 2006

And they're only odd questions? No normal ones?
posted by crunchland at 5:22 AM on July 31, 2006

i see it die once every couple of days or so, but I just assume it's a little hint that i need to get back to work.
posted by fishfucker at 9:25 AM on July 31, 2006

I think the answer to this question may be "Bloglines kinda sucks". At least every time I've tried to use it it's been hopelessly broken.
posted by reklaw at 10:47 AM on July 31, 2006

Regardless of bloglines' suckitude, as filmgeek points out, it's only the AskMe feed that gets broken, and it's broken just about all the time. If it was really a problem with bloglines, wouldn't you expect it to be happening for other MeFi-related feeds as well?
posted by Gamblor at 11:12 AM on July 31, 2006