OMG! gone silent in RSS? Oops. My fault.

By , Published September 5, 2010

Somewhere in our switch-over we seem to have mislaid 4000 RSS readers – and it’s my fault!

Whilst the majority of subscribers (over 13,000) are still receiving their feed as normal and do not need to change anything those that have found us, well, a bit quiet of late (most likely those using desktop-based reader) need to update their feeds to point to: -

  • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/feed

or

  • http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od

This points to our feedburner feed which provides -full- length articles for reading in your reader of choice.

We recommend using Google Reader for web-based users or Liferea for those seeking a desktop client.

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  • http://thealphanerd.wordpress.com/ Calvin

    It works fine for me in SeaMonkey 2.1 here. It’s set to the feedburner feed here.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Fingers crossed that it’s just a hitch then!

      • http://thealphanerd.wordpress.com/ Calvin

        Well I added it when we were at blogger. During the move and my ISP’s DNS still didn’t update, I could get the feeds, but not the actual posts.

        Odd, but at least it worked!

      • Anonymous

        d0od can you add a tab next to top posts on the right, with the latest posts !?
        i think thats the only thing missing, specially for new peeps who are nope subscribed

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          I’ve added something akin to that for now, hopefully we can get the issue fixed…

  • Goaliefight

    This site does not work well on the iPhone since the redesign. It’s complete unusable. Please fix it.

    • Anonymous

      u r not giving much detail what doesnt work.
      maybe they can have a mobile version for android, iphone users, etc.

    • Anonymous

      We’re working on a mobile version, give us a couple of weeks.

      • http://cldx.blogspot.com/ Joern Konopka

        I wrote a temporary fix:

        @media screen and (max-width:480px) {
        #upper { display:none; }
        }

        ;)

      • http://thealphanerd.wordpress.com/ Calvin

        Didn’t you have one on MoFuse or something?

      • http://thealphanerd.wordpress.com/ Calvin

        Didn’t you have one on MoFuse or something?

  • Anonymous

    Thank you!!!!!!! I missed you guys on my reader account!

    Hey Joey I think there’s a bug on the site. When I come here the Home page doesn’t have the newest articles. Most of the time what I see is Danrabbit’s “file browser” idea on top. To see the newest posts I have to reload the page, sometimes more than once.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Still? Eurgh. We thought we’d fixed that, obviously not…

    • Ken Ham

      Ctrl-F5 (in Chrome anyway) should get you the latest home page.

      It’s because the site’s caching setup is over-zealous, setting the web server (nginx, llighhtpd, apache) to tell browsers not to cache HTML pages should fix it.

    • Ken Ham

      Ctrl-F5 (in Chrome anyway) should get you the latest home page.

      It’s because the site’s caching setup is over-zealous, setting the web server (nginx, llighhtpd, apache) to tell browsers not to cache HTML pages should fix it.

  • http://ubuntudroid.blogspot.com ubuntudroid

    I would also add Feedly to the list of recommended web-based feed readers as I personally find it way better (and more stylish ;) ) than Google Reader and it fully supports omg articles – that means I never noticed any issues.

  • Paul Somebody

    I am using Feedly, which is based on Google Reader, but nevertheless I got the that problem too.

    • http://ubuntudroid.blogspot.com ubuntudroid

      Veeeery strange – I’ve never had any problems with Feedly and OMG!Ubuntu feeds… I’m using feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od as feed address – do you use that, too?

    • http://ubuntudroid.blogspot.com ubuntudroid

      Veeeery strange – I’ve never had any problems with Feedly and OMG!Ubuntu feeds… I’m using feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od as feed address – do you use that, too?

  • Paul Somebody

    I am using Feedly, which is based on Google Reader, but nevertheless I got the that problem too.

  • ninjapirate89

    I use the ‘Brief’ Firefox addon to read my feeds. Its the one addon preventing me from switching to Chrome.

  • Xraya4t

    I’m using sparse reader on my Android phone as my hard drive just died on my Ubuntu laptop and I can only see summaries.

  • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

    Wow that is really an amazing amount of readers. Thanks for keeping up such a useful and fun blog.

    • woodfrog

      yep, google reader says 7.523 subscribers.

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        Ahh i never knew how many subscribed in google-reader specifically. That’s hell of a lot less than I would’ve guessed though! Half of our subscribers are using something else…

        *off to investigate what*

        • Anonymous

          just using the normal rss subscribe in firefox
          i just like launching my browser and not login anywhere :)

          i might use google reader if i begin switching computers or start testing distros again

 
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