Feed link seems incorrect

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  jonpatch · Member · Jan 13, 2006 at 11:54 pm

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  Folks, I’m new to wordpress, and just set up a blog. The RSS link on the page contains:

  feed:http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/feed/

  However if I set this up in Feedreader, it reports, “feed doesn’t contain any items”
  I played with it and if I link to:

  http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/rss

  I get the posts, but I don’t think I’m notified of new posts.

  I’m concerned that anyone subscribing to my blog will get nothing.

  Jon

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  cairnpoint · Member · Jan 14, 2006 at 6:28 am

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  Try resetting it

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  jonpatch · Member · Jan 14, 2006 at 6:14 pm

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  cairnpoint, thanks for the reply. However, I’m not clear on your answer: what do I reset?

  Jon

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  nemarasu · Member · Jan 17, 2006 at 6:00 pm

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  I’m having the same problem. I’ve been messing with it all morning with no luck.

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  matt · Staff · Jan 18, 2006 at 6:07 am

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  http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/feed/

  Looks just fine here.

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  jonpatch · Member · Jan 18, 2006 at 3:57 pm

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  Hi Matt, thanks for checking. That link works fine, yes, but that’s not quite the link that appears. So if a user was to cut and paste the link into their newsreader, they would get “feed:http://jonpatch.wordpress/feed” which does not work.

  Jon

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  wank · Member · Jan 18, 2006 at 5:43 pm

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  Yeah, it’s a bug in the theme. You’re supposed to click directly on the link rather than cut and paste it. But people who don’t have a feedreader installed and are wanting to subscribe through bloglines or another web-based service will be in trouble as their browser will choke on it.

  I’d suggest putting an additional link to http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/feed/ in your blogroll so that everyone can subscribe without problems.

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  jonpatch · Member · Jan 18, 2006 at 5:52 pm

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  OK, that makes sense, and that’s a good workaround, thank you. I did change themes, so that would explain why it used to work.

  Unfortunately some older browsers do not recognize the “feed:” command, so that’s a bit iffy.

  Jon

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  wank · Member · Jan 19, 2006 at 12:25 am

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  heh, I’m on Firefox 1.5 and that doesn’t recognise the feed: command, so I don’t know what browser they think we should be using ;)

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  jonpatch · Member · Jan 19, 2006 at 12:42 am

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  I’m thinking (from a place of ignorance) that this may be more a function of whether your newsreader installs a browswer plug-in of some sort. When I installed FeedDemon, FireFox 1.5 now recognizes that link and directs me to FeedDemon.

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  drmike · Member · Jan 19, 2006 at 6:59 pm

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  What I find interesting about this is the RSS and the feed links provide different outputs. The feed link includes the content of the post.

  -drmike