RSS feed delay

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  membracid · Member · Dec 29, 2010 at 3:03 am

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  Mine seems to be working now as well, although super creepy mullet dude is still scraping my content. *shudder*

  His exact duplicate of my twitter post feed actually appears about 1 minute before mine does:

  Tweets by mod147

  (No idea who he is, but the other blog he’s scraping appears to be Amnesty International. Not asking for WP help on that; just sharing the creepy.)

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  blackroseheart · Member · Jan 4, 2011 at 7:38 am

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  I’ve been having a problem with my RSS feed, as well. I use Yahoo for my feed reader.

  It’s been 4 MONTHS since it’s updated my RSS feed, which was just a regular RSS feed.

  After reading here, I decided to try an Atom feed, and that works perfectly! I don’t know if the problem is the feed, or the reader, but RSS doesn’t work and Atom does.

  I went to the Feed Validator, and this was the response:

  This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

  * line 28, column 148: Unregistered link relationship: search [help]

  … com/osd.xml” title=”Shaking The Tree” />

  Source: http://blackroseheart.wordpress.com/feed/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 4, 2011 at 7:53 am

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  @blackroseheart, your feed validates completely with no errors, so the feed coming out of wordpress is fine. http://blackroseheart.wordpress.com/feed/

  Yahoo and a bunch of people involved in the RSS standards have been going round and round about whether the standard calls for an ending “/” or not, with Yahoo the loudest and most boisterous naysayers to the point that they will not even attempt, or at least would not a while ago display a feed if you ended it with the trailing slash.

  In your yahoo reader settings, try the feed URL without the trailing slash.

  http://blackroseheart.wordpress.com/feed

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 4, 2011 at 9:19 am

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  Technorati is a WEEK behind in my RSS feed. Just the one for my most important blog; all the others work just fine.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 4, 2011 at 9:26 am

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  Technorati? I thought they slipped into irrelevance about two years ago when they did their last big marvelous “update” and flushed about half of their users blog data down the toilet. They never did recover those two lost years of my data and started me again at zero.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 4, 2011 at 9:55 am

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  Yeah, I believe you, but this is about the WP.com RSS feeds. They’re accurate on all EIGHT other blogs to which I contribute. And I’m observing a similar failure with Facebook and Tumblr as well, both of which are dependent on RSS feeds to pull in the blog. The blog is at least a week overdue unless I post it manually.

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  blackroseheart · Member · Jan 6, 2011 at 1:07 am

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  @thesacredpath – I tried it both ways, and neither way works. With or without the ending “/”, my feed is 4 months old.

  Any other ideas?

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  blackroseheart · Member · Jan 6, 2011 at 1:13 am

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  @thesacredpath – I thought I’d test out the theory of the ending “/” with the Atom feed.

  http://blackroseheart.wordpress.com/feed/atom/
  and
  http://blackroseheart.wordpress.com/feed/atom

  Both work perfectly in Yahoo.

  I don’t know the difference between a regular RSS feed and an Atom feed, so I can’t explain why one works and the other doesn’t. And if the regular RSS feed is picking up stuff from 4 months ago, why isn’t it picking up stuff from more recently?

  Can you get the RSS feed to work in Yahoo?