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Hello RSS Readers, can you hear me?

Post author By Tom Coates
Post date May 11, 2020
78 Comments on Hello RSS Readers, can you hear me?

I’d like to ask you guys a quick favor. If you use an RSS reader to consume your online content and somehow you still find yourself subscribed to plasticbag.org after many years of abandonment and dereliction, I’d really appreciate it if you can let me know in the comments below if you see this post. If you could tell me what client or online service you’re using to consume the feed too, that would be really great.

The short background to this is that as part of my massive cleaning and reinstallation of everything, I deleted a hell of a lot of stuff from around the place, and I’m checking the error logs to see what things people are missing. At the moment, the largest number of 404 errors are coming from people looking for an index.rdf, index.xml or atom.xml file, which I’m assuming are all places I used to keep my feeds. WordPress has moved them to /feed/ and so I’ve made a few .htaccess updates to redirect everything to the right places. But of course it’s easy to make the redirects, and less easy to check that everything is coming through to everyone correctly.

Obviously, if you happen to stumble upon this post in another way and then realize that your RSS feed is not up to date, I’d also love to hear about it, but I suspect that’s a bit less likely to happen.

78 replies on “Hello RSS Readers, can you hear me?”

I can see you. Using Reeder as a client. Feedly for feeds.

Excellent. Much appreciated!

Looks good to me http://www.unmung.com/feed?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fplasticbag.org%2Findex.xml

Thank you for using Feedly, Bruce.

Similar – ReadKit as the client, Feedly for feeds.

I see it! I use Feedly right now, having migrated from Google Reader.`

Wonderful. Thanks so much! That’s one down.

I too see it, also from Feedly. Very excited that the Tombot 2000 has fired back up!

I saw it – using Unread as my client, subscribed via Feedbin.

Thank you for using Feedly, Simon ?

Also Feedly, with subscriptions imported from Google Reader

Aw. Thanks for replying! It’s really nice to hear from you xx

We’re grateful to serve, Seth ?

Coming through loud and clear here too.

I’m using Feedbin for the feeds and Reeder for a client.

Same here, comes through great ?

I see it. I’m using Feedly.

Yes – via Feedly

Yes – using FeedWrangler via Reeder. ?

Yep, another Feedly.

Hello! Yes, using Feedbin and Reeder.

? using Feedbin with Reeder.

Web-based feedly and it still works

Appearing fine in The Old Reader also.

Yep, got it! Using NetNewsWire 5.

I’m using Thunderbird. I didn’t see your return initially because it was using http://www.plasticbag.org/index.xml which was 404ing at the time (I see it’s back now, so I was just impatient :-D). I spotted you were back on Twitter and updated Thunderbird to http://www.plasticbag.org/feed as that seemed the new URL.

? Feedbin user here!

No problem – the article appeared – as if a number of articles from years back a couple of weeks ago – using Feedly (previously Google Reader)

Still here also, via Feedly. Great to see you back Tom

Using Feedly and the old feedburner url 😉

Loud and clear in NewsBlur ?

Also coming through fine on NewsBlur.

I saw it this morning: Feedbin and NetNewsWire

Hello! Reading this using FeedLab which I think is connected to Feedly, which is where my Google Reader feeds ended up. Lovely to see you back!

I see you! I’m using Feedly (and happy to see you in my feeds)

Yes. I use Feedly on both Desktop and iPad.
For me, your feed “re-activated” on May 1st with a post called “A brief review of Delicious Library…”

Another happy Feedbin+Reeder user!

I’m here from Feedly

Indeed, with Feedly

Yes, seeing this in Feedly.

Another Feedly user checking in here!

Feedbin … still reading the https://feeds.feedburner.com/plasticbag feed. Yikes.

Both this and the earlier test post showed up fine in NewsBlur, which thinks the feed URL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/plasticbag , for what that’s worth.

I have seen this via Feedly 🙂

All looking good from my Feedly account. A few days ago it suddenly showed four or five of your “best songs of the year” posts, followed by your “I might start blogging again” post. And now this one.