http://folding.typepad.com/ RSS problem

rhavern · Post by **rhavern** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:59 pm

I used to have this feed, but it ceased functioning some days ago. I have tried to re-add this site to my yahoo rss, but it fails. I click on the "Subscribe to this blog's feed" (http://folding.typepad.com/news/atom.xml), click to add it to my feeds and it fails with the entirely unhelpful "There were some problems while loading your page: Sorry, we were unable to add this feed. Please try again later". Manually entering the feed URL in yahoo also meets with fail.

Search of the net shows nothing helpful and I am able to add other typepad rss feeds successfully. Odd.

Post by **VijayPande** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:59 pm

ok, that's strange. I'll ping the typepad folks (I didn't change anything there).

rhavern · Post by **rhavern** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:09 pm

Still broken for me too.

Post by **bruce** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:39 pm

Have you complained to typepad?

Post by **VijayPande** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:00 pm

I have an open ticket with them (Ticket ID 4NWMEMERK7RE), but more people complaining would get their attention.

rhavern · Post by **rhavern** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:35 pm

I have messaged typepad via their Contact Us page with a copy of my initial post in this thread.

rhavern · Post by **rhavern** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:26 am

I got this reply from typepad:

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Nov-21 07:34 pm (PST):

The feed for the http://folding.typepad.com/news/ blog is not valid due to errant characters in some of the posts. You'll typically be unable to subscribe to a blog with an invalid feed.

The author of the blog is aware of the invalid feed, and we are working with him to resolve the issue. We would recommend trying to subscribe to the feed later.

Post by **PantherX** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:14 pm

Has there been any progress on this issue?

Post by **VijayPande** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:01 pm

The typepad people claimed it is fixed. Sounds like it isn't?

Post by **PantherX** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:36 pm

It still broken on my end.

Setup:
Firefox 8.0.1 where I have subscribed to the RSS Feed. It states "Live Bookmark feed failed to load."

rhavern · Post by **rhavern** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:56 pm

I too am using FF 8.0.1.

Still broken.

anandhanju · Post by **anandhanju** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:01 am

I tried the feed link with IE and it (surprisingly) was helpful in pointing out what was incorrect:

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An invalid character was found in text content.
Line: 167 Character: 567

This can be seen in the article http://folding.typepad.com/news/2011/10 ... aches.html soon after the text "specifically two previously reported 100 ". It also appears after "timescales of 5.0 ". I think the micro symbol got messed up when pasting the abstract in typepad. Firefox renders the character as a box with 0001 in the typepad post but displays the symbol correctly on the abstract page (at pubs.acs.org).

Fixing this should resolve the broken feed issue.

anandhanju · Post by **anandhanju** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:24 am

The feed appears to be fixed now

Post by **PantherX** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:08 pm

Yep, it is now working on my end

rhavern · Post by **rhavern** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:09 am

Agreed, my feed is now working correctly. Thanks!

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