arstechnica and slashdot removed from my list of feeds

problem
1

This morning when I last used Newsblur (in browser) both arstechnica and slashdot were there.  Now, this afternoon, they are no longer there.

1 Like
2

There’s something fishy about these feeds, because what I think happened is that you were subscribed to a lesser used address, which got swept up in the new feed cleaners i launched earlier today. Not sure why you weren’t subscribed to the correct feed, though.

Here’s Ars Technica: http://www.newsblur.com/site/6223925/ars-technica
Here’s Slashdot: http://www.newsblur.com/site/6257625/slashdot

3

It would be helpful to receive notification that a feed is being force removed from my subscription list.  Is there any way to know if others were removed?

2 Likes
4

I lost Ars Technica too. It was Ars Technica UK in my case.

5

It does still appear in my organise sites view.

6

It has been suggested to implement a function like this that would warn a user when a feed gets deleted (which has happened quite a few times the last year) but as seen yesterday it has not yet been done (https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/feed-disappeared).
I had my slashdot subscription removed as well and I was on a feed from http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot . Now that feed resolves to http://www.newsblur.com/site/6257625/slashdot but I don’t know if that was the case before.

Please don’t delete feeds from users. Really, please remove any automatic functionality that will result in the deletion of feeds. Please mark them or something but don’t delete them. I have no idea if a less used feed is gone.

4 Likes
7

I just noticed that for me, Slashdot is missing lots of entries between 14 May 22:30 and 17 May 15:00 - could that be related to the feed cleaners?

8

Presumably this “feed cleaner” feature explains why the number of sites in my account is at 149 today, whereas it was 150 yesterday, and 151 previously.

Like others in this thread, I’m not able to identify which feeds got “swept up” due to this feature. I’d appreciate some way to mark those feeds as inactive, instead of simply deleting them from the list of sites.

Is there some way for us to determine which of the feeds got deleted, so that we can hunt for a good RSS feed and add them back?

As a related issue, I was manually cleaning up my list of sites just now, and I noticed that when I delete a feed/site, that action doesn’t get logged in the Interactions/Activities. When I add a new site, though, it does get logged in the Activities section (i.e. as “You subscribed to …”).

1 Like
9

I have a “subscriber” RSS feed to Ars which includes the full text of the articles. It no longer updates - the generic feed doesn’t have the full text. Any chance of restoring this? (As it contains my subscriber ID, no one else would be subscribed to it. If I go to the site and tell it to manually parse it, it fetches new stories…)

10

Good news, i just fixed this bug. See https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/feed-fetching-1-15th-as-often-as-expected-dropping-read-… for details.

11

So I encountered this bug with Ars as well, and I just re-added it, and then after refreshing the page it disappeared again =(

I’ll note that the Ars paid subscriber feeds have a key at the end to verify the user so each one is unique. Maybe that’s getting caught up in the filter?

12

I just realized I lost my slashdot and Ars feeds too. Just jumping on the bandwagon.