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RSS Feeds Moved

Posted on Monday, October 16 at 15:26 by Jesse
I have just converted all of our news feeds to RSS 2.0. The filenames are the same, but ending with "rss" instead of "rdf". Please update your feedreaders to reflect this!

Example:

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/backend/vivelecanada.rdf
Becomes:
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/backend/vivelecanada.rss

In addition, I have made some changes to how the vivelecanada website works, which should greatly reduce the number of errors when fetching pages. (which have been rare but increasing).

If anyone has any problems, please report them in the site support forum.

[update: made it more clear that action must be taken by users of our news feeds! -JvH]

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  1. by boflaade
    Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:15 am
    My reader now finds the feed "invalid"and the feed can't be located.

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  2. by Fitter
    Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:08 am
    The net filter now prevents me from seeing the site. The filter identifies it as a chat site. There goes my lunch hour!

  3. by boflaade
    Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:17 am
    To add: None of my readers can validate/find the feed and the syndicated headlines are still showing as .rdf

    HMTL for time being, I guess.

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    Expect little from life and get more from it.

  4. by Wraun
    Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:00 am
    I have not had any troubles with sharpreader

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    Everybody got to deviate from the norm

  5. by avatar Jesse
    Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:19 pm
    Anyone unable to find the feed, note that the filename has changed, and you will need to re-add it with the new name!

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  6. by boflaade
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:08 am
    I'm using "Great News" & FireFox. Great News worked fine but wouldn't update indicating Vive Le was an error. I removed Vive Le and tried re installing it. The RSS field is indicated "not on the Server". I'm going to try again, now.

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  7. by boflaade
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:18 am
    Done and works okay. I simply copied the new address rather then target the Icon. I guess the Icon is not up to date yet.

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  8. by boflaade
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:23 am
    Thanks Jesse: I tried using the Icon at the bottom left of the page rather then the address you posted. All is fine in paradise now.

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    Expect little from life and get more from it.

  9. by gaulois
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:35 am
    Works fine for me too.<br />
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    Just one comment: I find the Vive RSS window display window quite wide and it stresses certain CMS such as e107. Check <a href="http://lecanardreincarne.freesoul.ca">http://lecanardreincarne.freesoul.ca</a> to see what I mean. You will note that most RSS feeds stick to a limited window width. You would need to size down your banner in order to be more compliant with the defacto width standard.<br />
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    The Globe&Mail recently changed the window width to include the IBM sponsor and I had to forget about the Globe. Can't do that with Vive being my favorite RSS feed.<p>---<br>"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"



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