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carbonel ([personal profile] carbonel) wrote2016-06-16 03:32 pm
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What happened to the Tor feed?

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?
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[personal profile] the_rck 2016-06-16 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
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.