RSS feed not working

  • Resolved Harrison_Grey

    (@harrison_grey)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    I’m having trouble with the RSS feed on my site LuchaQuest. I can access it fine through my computer, using both the tiny link in the footer and the button I’ve installed in my menu, but using another computer in my house I can’t access it at all.

    Is it working for anyone else? What could be messing up my RSS feed?

    EDIT: Hang on, I’ve been viewing it through Firefox which has a built in RSS reader, but the browser on the other computer doesn’t. Is that it? Is the RSS page a jumbled mess without an RSS reader installed, and if so how can I fix that?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Yes, an RSS feed is a stream of XML data meant to be interpreted by a feed reader, like http://rssowl.org/ or http://newsblur.com/ not a browser.

    At the moment, Firefox is the only browser with a built-in feed reader, and there really is no difference between http://www.luchaquest.net/home/ and http://www.luchaquest.net/home/feed/ except that the feed looks worse in a browser. 🙂

    So, anyone looking for your feed won’t be viewing it in a browser anyway. If they’re looking for your feed, they’re already using a separate feed reader.

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Your feed looks fine in IE, FF, Safari and Chrome.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Are you using a feed reader extension in Safari and Chrome? At http://www.luchaquest.net/home/feed/ in default Safari you’ll see a button asking you to download a feed reader, and in default Chrome you’ll just see a stream of XML data.

    I haven’t checked IE recently, but at launch IE 11 also directed you to download a feed reader by default, so if that has changed that’s awesome. 🙂

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    It is IE 11 and as far as I know IE always had a reader included.

    With Chrome it is an extension, although I don’t remember adding it. I know for a long time Chrome did not have a reader.

    FF has always had a reader AFAIK.

    In my Safari if you go to a site and it has a feed, the RSS button shows in the site url. Click on that and the feed opens. If you go to http://www.sitename/feed it will just open the feed. I couldn’t find that as an extension – maybe a plugin.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Ah, you must be on an older Safari. This is what Safari 8 does now: https://cloudup.com/cgy9bnvE0kn

    Good to know about IE, thanks!

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    I have 5.1.7 Never use it except to check sites.

    Apple really wants you to go the the store!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Either that or they don’t want to maintain an RSS reader anymore. 🙂

    Thread Starter Harrison_Grey

    (@harrison_grey)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Yeah, looks like that’s it. The issue was compounded by the fact that I noticed this while I was adding a custom button for the RSS to the menu, and had part of the URL wrong. So I first was having issues because I was clicking a button to an incorrect URL, but was getting completely different responses from different computers and browsers.

    Anyway, problem solved. Ish.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Excellent, please let us know if you have any more questions!

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