Deleting RSS Feeds

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  travertinefarm · Member · Dec 15, 2013 at 11:11 am

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  The edit function for Blogs I Follow does not update. I have tried to delete the RSS feeds from Blogs I Follow, but the feeds will not be deleted. I have also tried to go to the site to look for the “follow” button in the toolbar to click on it and “unfollow” the site. I do not see this option either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Dec 15, 2013 at 11:06 pm

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  That is a glitch we are working on fixing.

  For the moment however, staff has to remove those feeds manually. If you list them here, I can delete them for you.

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  travertinefarm · Member · Dec 16, 2013 at 11:29 am

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  I would prefer not to have any RSS feeds for now. They can all be deleted. Thanks for getting back to me so soon.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Dec 16, 2013 at 6:38 pm

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  That should be deleted now. However, the deletion didn’t act quite the way I expected. Can you double check for me and let me know if it is still appearing for you?

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  travertinefarm · Member · Dec 18, 2013 at 11:35 am

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  They are still there. Thanks again for going to the trouble to help fix this for me.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Dec 19, 2013 at 12:18 pm

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  Hi there, sorry that didn’t fix it. We ran into a little glitch on our end, and we asked our team to help remove that RSS feed for you. We’ll let you know once that’s done. :)

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  travertinefarm · Member · Dec 20, 2013 at 11:04 pm

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  Thank you, rootjosh and rachelmcr. It must be a nasty bug. There must be something about RSS feeds that are difficult to manage, thus maybe Google’s reason for dropping RSS feeds from its browser products and functions?

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  rachelmcr · Member · Dec 23, 2013 at 11:35 am

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  Hi there,

  If there are special characters in an RSS feed URL, they can cause problems when you try to remove the feed from your subscriptions. Our developers can manually remove the feed subscription in cases like that. I’ll let you know once they’ve been able to do that with the RSS feed you’re subscribed to. :)

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  travertinefarm · Member · Dec 23, 2013 at 12:21 pm

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  What kind of special characters? Should I be careful of subscribing to these feeds so that I have the flexibility of adding them and deleting them? Thanks again for the help.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Dec 27, 2013 at 1:24 pm

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  Hi there,

  Sometimes, extra characters like quotation marks and apostrophes can cause a problem, but it really depends from case to case. When subscribing to a feed, be sure to use the exact RSS feed provided by the blog you’re subscribing to. (For example, WordPress.com RSS feeds are always the blog’s URL plus /feed/ without any extra characters after the final slash.)

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  travertinefarm · Member · Dec 28, 2013 at 7:52 pm

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  Thank you, rachelmcr. This is good to know. I will keep an eye out.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jan 2, 2014 at 9:20 am

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  Hi there,

  Our team removed that RSS feed you were subscribed to, so you’re all set there. Please let me know if I can provide any further help with that. :)

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  travertinefarm · Member · Jan 2, 2014 at 1:09 pm

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  I noticed! Thank you very much. It made for me a Happy New Year!!