What happened to the Tor feed?

[carbonel]

Normally I read the Tor blog via LJ using the tag tordotcom. I recently realized I hadn't seen it for a while, and when I checked, "a while" was over two weeks -- the last visible entry was the the Harry Potter reread post about the epilogue. Which I suppose is fitting, but I want it back.

The question is, is there something wrong with the feed, or with me?

One of the things that drives me nuts about LJ is the fact that there doesn't seem to be a way to search for RSS feeds. You can scroll through the most popular ones, but you can't search for a name. If you can guess it (as I did for Ex Urbe), you can go to [tagname].livejournal.com. But tor.livejournal.com goes to a Russian site, and torblog.livejournal.com isn't registered.

Anyone have any suggestions for both the specific (Tor) and general (finding feeds) problems?

Comments

[the_rck]

I'm not sure about LJ and feeds. I mostly use the Feedly app on my phone to follow blogs, and that has worked very well for me. Feedly works on my laptop, too, but I have it logged in with the old Meta News account and haven't bothered to figure out how to change it. I read the Tor blog through that and haven't had any trouble getting posts in the last couple of weeks.

There was a point, last year, when the Tor folks overhauled everything and suddenly Feedly wasn't getting posts. As I recall, I had to start a new subscription on Feedly (with the same url!) in order to get around the problem. The old subscription started working again after a couple of weeks. I have no idea at all what happened. So it could be something that Tor did that means the LJ feed isn't connected to the exact right place any longer.

[sraun]

The easiest way I've found to find a specific feed is to attempt to create it. If it exists, I'll get told that.

If an old feed stops working, and you can identify the old feed on LJ, and what it should be, you can file a support request to get it fixed.

[carbonel]

Okay, that's useful data.

I went to the to http://tordotcom.livejournal.com/ profile page, and indeed it says the feed is http://www.tor.com/feed/ -- which is correct.

It also says "Last checked: 26 May 2016 22:26:18 (Parse error)
Error Message:500 Can't connect to www.tor.com:80 (No suitable addresses found) Next check: 26 May 2017 22:27:18"

Can you tell anything about what's wrong from that? (It can't be as simple as the lack of http://, can it?) And how do I file a support request to get it fixed?

[sraun]

It may just need to be kicked on the LJ side.

Per http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/150.html:

Syndicated accounts are not owned by anyone; they automatically collect content from the source feed. You cannot log into a syndicated account, nor can syndicated accounts be deleted or renamed. Other account types cannot be converted into syndicated accounts, and syndicated accounts cannot be converted into other account types.

However, a syndicated account's external feed URL can be changed by opening a support request in the Troubleshooting category, making sure to include the username of the feed on LiveJournal and the desired feed URL. Do not create a new syndicated account with the new feed URL as this will complicate making the change.

The link to open the support request is:

https://www.livejournal.com/support/submit/?category=troubleshoot

[jazzfish]

sraun's method is the one I use for finding feeds, both on LJ and DW. It's at the bottom of http://www.livejournal.com/syn/ .

In this particular case: when I paste what ought to be the main tor.com feed address http://www.tor.com/feed/ into the field, it tells me there's no feed for that URL. Curiously that's the same URL that's at http://tordotcom.livejournal.com/profile (whose last status is an error message). So... I got nothin. Maybe the same kind of problem that therck mentions?