Losing feeds

problem
#1

I’m periodically losing feeds from my account.

Ex:
https://airvpn.org/rss/forums/1-airvp…
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechn…

I’ve been removing the odd feed manually; but not these. I just added the Ars feed back. At time of writing, AirVPN feed is gone.

ETA: Sorry, AirVPN was a bad example. It was not missing.

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#2

I started noticing this problem over the weekend, and for me it was when I lost my ArsTechnica feed, also.

#3

Something must have happened with the ArsTechnica feed; I had it and lost it as well. Feed statistics on that site show only 4 subscribers right now, and I’d have guessed it was much more popular than that (which might indicate not everybody who lost it has realized yet).

#4

Luckily I can re-subscribe folks to auto-deleted feeds without a problem, but there still lurks a bug where a feed can somehow be de-duped, and then fail during transfer of subscriptions. I’m looking into it, but your subscriptions to Ars Technica should all be restored.

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#5

I had ~150-200 unread articles under Ars (yes, lazy). Is it possible to restore the feed history? I’d already added the feed back manually.

I can see there are other people subscribed to the same feed. Is there a way to restore feed history—just the extant, historical posts; not the [un]read status—from that?

One thing I always wished Google Reader had was a way of sharing feed history; most sites only provide 10-30 articles in a feed at the time you retrieve and parse it. Reader was *clearly* keeping statistics on how many people were reading which feeds (and probably de-duping storage with this information), yet adding a feed other Reader users had been subscribed to for some time got you the maximum number of articles available at retrieval time. Historical data was never available.

#6

Thanks, Sam!

It does seem like something changed on ArsTechnica’s end though. If you look at their Rss Feeds page, the “All News” option is listed as http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechn… ; the restored/deleted feed address is http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechn… – which has thrown a couple of (500) errors. Content appears to be identical, so I wonder if Ars just changed the address (though that doesn’t answer why NewsBlur would have deleted the site instead of just marking it as “misbehaving”).

#7

Actually, feature request: local and/or remote backup. The OPML that NewsBlur exports has only very bare subscribed feeds information. There’s practically zero metadata. There’s no [un]read data; intelligence training; or whatever else. I could be missing it, but I’m also not seeing data on saved stories.

Thanks!

#8

I fixed the feed address, so it shouldn’t throw any more 500s.

#9

Thanks again!