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Main site RSS not working?
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I've noticed for the last few days that the main site RSS doesn't seem to work... I receive an error looking like so:
When I click the "Send Report" button at the bottom I'm directed to a page containing some unstyled XML:
I retrieve a cached copy of the feed from my own server which pulls it from feedburner and runs it through Tidy to avoid those special character issues that were breaking the feeds a while back. If this isn't the correct place to report this I apologize; could someone please point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
HTTP Error Code: 500 Detail: There was a problem retrieving the feed: com.burningdoor.rsspp.resource.impl.HttpConnectionException: Error getting URL: 503 - Service Not Available
When I click the "Send Report" button at the bottom I'm directed to a page containing some unstyled XML:
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value>
<struct>
<member>
<name>message</name>
<value>Exception processing ping request</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>flerror</name>
<value>
<boolean>1</boolean>
</value>
</member>
</struct>
</value>
</param>
</params>
</methodResponse>
I retrieve a cached copy of the feed from my own server which pulls it from feedburner and runs it through Tidy to avoid those special character issues that were breaking the feeds a while back. If this isn't the correct place to report this I apologize; could someone please point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/contest-etcetera/
when it should be just
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/
(note: the comic links still have the /comic/ portion)
Given that the feed is designed to force click-through, this grows tiring rather quickly.
The link tag however links to the issue. I leave it up to you and your RSS reader to decide which one you want to use, a link to the entry or a link to the issue.
I should include a link back to that issue, so you can see all of the newsposts or comics for that particular issue if you chose to view a specific entry.
-Alpha
Edit: By the way, this wasn't an advertising choice. The choice was a technical one, a GUID is a unique identifier for that entry.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Penny Arcade</title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/</link> <description>News Fucker 5000</description> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Penny Arcade, Inc.</copyright> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:37:46 -0000</lastBuildDate> <item> <title> News: How Not To Do It </title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/</link> <description> Tycho : This is an example of too many words: I'm not a fan of correcting people, but anything under 2,000 words is considered a short short or flash fiction. You lose. (CW)TB </description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:37:46 -0000</pubDate> <guid>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/how-not-do-it/</guid> </item> <item> <title> News: Contest Etcetera </title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/</link> <description> Tycho : We've had a couple questions, and since we're getting entries at a rate of about twenty a minute I thought I'd better satisfy them quickly. You can enter as many times as you like, but please try to contain all entries in the body of a single email. You aren't going to go to prison if you don't, but we're only two guys, and this is starting to get crazy. We do have a limit on shitty entries: we ask that you limit those to zero. To whet your appetite, here's a shot of what you're playing for: That's one ... </description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:32:41 -0000</pubDate> <guid>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/contest-etcetera/</guid> </item> <item> <title> News: Hoodies Have Returned! </title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/</link> <description> Tycho : The new hoodies with all the words on them are back in stock, in both dark and light polarities. Assuming you have not purchased another hoodie in the interim, one of these might be a good option. (CW)TB </description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:57:50 -0000</pubDate> <guid>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/hoodies-have-returned/</guid> </item> <item> <title> Comic: Cloaked In Twilight </title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/04/</link> <description> New Comic : Cloaked In Twilight </description> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate> <guid>http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/04/cloaked-twilight/</guid> </item> <item> <title> News: Cloaked In Twilight </title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/</link> <description> Tycho : I'm surprised it hasn't taken up even more time in the post and strip, considering how many of our actual conversations revolve around it. I think we've tried to shield you (by and large) from the burning heart of our affection for it. When we set up for a game, and I'm at the head of the table, it's strange how quickly old ways return. We rarely do contests, but this seemed like a good time, and we knew the right people. Between Blizzard and Upper Deck, they have unloaded a truly revolting amount of merchandise on us, and we'll ... </description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate> <guid>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/cloaked-twilight/</guid> </item> <item> <title> News: Good Lord </title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/</link> <description> Tycho : Tom Chick is just the Goddamned king of games writers. Just... wow. (CW)TB </description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:24:59 -0000</pubDate> <guid>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/good-lord/</guid> </item> <item> <title> News: Incredible </title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/</link> <description> Tycho : So many surreal things happen at an Anime convention that it would be difficult to choose one item. Well, usually. This time it wasn't very hard at all. This anguished man dressed as a female hedgehog communicates a great deal about what it is to be human. (CW)TB </description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:22:41 -0000</pubDate> <guid>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/incredible/</guid> </item> <item> <title> News: Greenhouse </title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/</link> <description> Gabe : So we got a lot of questions at Sakura-Con about the state of our game. Everyone seemed to want to know when it would be done. Well the truth is that episode 1 is done or at least what they call "content complete". We're actually hard at work on Episode 2 now and have been for a little while. Episode 1 is currently going through some hard core bug testing as well as Microsoft's own certification process. In the meantime we actually need your help to make sure that once the game is ready we'll be able to deliver it. ... </description> <author>gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:33:50 -0000</pubDate> <guid>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/greenhouse/</guid> </item> <item> <title> Comic: Nested Ironies </title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/02/</link> <description> New Comic : Nested Ironies </description> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate> <guid>http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/02/nested-ironies/</guid> </item> <item> <title> News: Nested Ironies </title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/</link> <description> Tycho : I don't have solid data, just my own year-to-year experience, but it feels like gaming cosplay has been on the rise since we first started attending Sakuracon. The Team Fortress 2 crews you've seen showcased on the gaming blogs are one of the newer ones, but Valve seemed to rule the crossover space this year: there were several Chells as well, as well as Aperture Science Technicians, their Weighted Companion Cubes in tow. These cubes were sometimes literally in tow, hoisted up on crates for easy transport. There was even a GlaDOS. I kept my distance. The more insular the ... </description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate> <guid>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/nested-ironies/</guid> </item> </channel> </rss>Feedburner Feed<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?> <rss xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Penny Arcade</title> <link>http://www.penny-arcade.com/</link> <description>News Fucker 5000</description> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Penny Arcade, Inc.</copyright> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:37:46 -0000</lastBuildDate> <atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/pa-mainsite" type="application/rss+xml" /> <item> <title>News: How Not To Do It</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/264231646/</link> <description>Tycho : This is an example of too many words: I'm not a fan of correcting people, but anything under 2,000 words is considered a short short or flash fiction. You lose. (CW)TB<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/264231646" height="1" width="1"/></description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:37:46 -0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/how-not-do-it/</guid> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/how-not-do-it/</feedburner:origLink> </item> <item> <title>News: Contest Etcetera</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/264153254/</link> <description>Tycho : We've had a couple questions, and since we're getting entries at a rate of about twenty a minute I thought I'd better satisfy them quickly. You can enter as many times as you like, but please try to contain all entries in the body of a single email. You aren't going to go to prison if you don't, but we're only two guys, and this is starting to get crazy. We do have a limit on shitty entries: we ask that you limit those to zero. To whet your appetite, here's a shot of what you're playing for: That's one ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/264153254" height="1" width="1"/></description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:32:41 -0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/contest-etcetera/</guid> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/contest-etcetera/</feedburner:origLink> </item> <item> <title>News: Hoodies Have Returned!</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/264101961/</link> <description>Tycho : The new hoodies with all the words on them are back in stock, in both dark and light polarities. Assuming you have not purchased another hoodie in the interim, one of these might be a good option. (CW)TB<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/264101961" height="1" width="1"/></description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:57:50 -0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/hoodies-have-returned/</guid> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/hoodies-have-returned/</feedburner:origLink> </item> <item> <title>Comic: Cloaked In Twilight</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/263967550/</link> <description>New Comic : Cloaked In Twilight<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/263967550" height="1" width="1"/></description> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/04/cloaked-twilight/</guid> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/04/cloaked-twilight/</feedburner:origLink> </item> <item> <title>News: Cloaked In Twilight</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/264101962/</link> <description>Tycho : I'm surprised it hasn't taken up even more time in the post and strip, considering how many of our actual conversations revolve around it. I think we've tried to shield you (by and large) from the burning heart of our affection for it. When we set up for a game, and I'm at the head of the table, it's strange how quickly old ways return. We rarely do contests, but this seemed like a good time, and we knew the right people. Between Blizzard and Upper Deck, they have unloaded a truly revolting amount of merchandise on us, and we'll ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/264101962" height="1" width="1"/></description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/cloaked-twilight/</guid> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/04/cloaked-twilight/</feedburner:origLink> </item> <item> <title>News: Good Lord</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/263967551/</link> <description>Tycho : Tom Chick is just the Goddamned king of games writers. Just... wow. (CW)TB<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/263967551" height="1" width="1"/></description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:24:59 -0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/good-lord/</guid> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/good-lord/</feedburner:origLink> </item> <item> <title>News: Incredible</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/263967552/</link> <description>Tycho : So many surreal things happen at an Anime convention that it would be difficult to choose one item. Well, usually. This time it wasn't very hard at all. This anguished man dressed as a female hedgehog communicates a great deal about what it is to be human. (CW)TB<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/263967552" height="1" width="1"/></description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:22:41 -0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/incredible/</guid> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/incredible/</feedburner:origLink> </item> <item> <title>News: Greenhouse</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/263967553/</link> <description>Gabe : So we got a lot of questions at Sakura-Con about the state of our game. Everyone seemed to want to know when it would be done. Well the truth is that episode 1 is done or at least what they call "content complete". We're actually hard at work on Episode 2 now and have been for a little while. Episode 1 is currently going through some hard core bug testing as well as Microsoft's own certification process. In the meantime we actually need your help to make sure that once the game is ready we'll be able to deliver it. ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/263967553" height="1" width="1"/></description> <author>gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:33:50 -0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/greenhouse/</guid> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/greenhouse/</feedburner:origLink> </item> <item> <title>Comic: Nested Ironies</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/263967554/</link> <description>New Comic : Nested Ironies<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/263967554" height="1" width="1"/></description> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/02/nested-ironies/</guid> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/02/nested-ironies/</feedburner:origLink> </item> <item> <title>News: Nested Ironies</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/263967555/</link> <description>Tycho : I don't have solid data, just my own year-to-year experience, but it feels like gaming cosplay has been on the rise since we first started attending Sakuracon. The Team Fortress 2 crews you've seen showcased on the gaming blogs are one of the newer ones, but Valve seemed to rule the crossover space this year: there were several Chells as well, as well as Aperture Science Technicians, their Weighted Companion Cubes in tow. These cubes were sometimes literally in tow, hoisted up on crates for easy transport. There was even a GlaDOS. I kept my distance. The more insular the ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/263967555" height="1" width="1"/></description> <author>tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/nested-ironies/</guid> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/02/nested-ironies/</feedburner:origLink> </item> </channel> </rss>Anyone else notice this?
Here's the raw feed I'm currently getting:
Try unsubscribing / deleting the live bookmark and adding it back in.
I'm seeing 10 entries from the last few days. There was another thread about someone seeing the main site stuck at the end of march... your ISP might be cacheing it for some reason.
Smasher's answer is most likely correct. Something is caching it because it's working just fine here.
http://penny-arcade.com/rss.xml
This is the one that seems to be stuck at the end of March. It's what's linked from the RSS icon at the bottom of all of the pages. (Including in the comic nav bar- next, previous, news, etc.)
http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/pa-mainsite
This one is set in a link tag in the head of the pages, so it shows up as the RSS feed icon in the browser. It is up to date.
So the question is- why two different feeds?
The old feed URL is a legacy url that should have been redirecting, and it looks like that redirect turned off a while ago. Give it a shot now.