Originally published at: LittleBITS: Main TidBITS Server Moving This Week - TidBITS
We plan to move the main TidBITS website on Tuesday night, so let us know in TIdBITS Talk if you notice any problems.
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My feed reader claims to still be getting an error when trying to retrieve the RSS feed from https://db.tidbits.com/feeds/tidbits.rss
Might be your reader? The W3C RSS validator is, other than a couple of recommendations, happy with it, and I successfully added it to Thunderbird.
I’m not seeing any real problems with the W3C validator either, and nothing should have changed with the feed format.
db.tidbits.com hasn’t existed for many years, so while we have redirects in place, it might work better to point at the current URL for the feed:
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… Works for me. And renders fine via the Want My RSS Firefox extension.
For those who may care, Want My RSS puts back two features that Firefox deleted many years ago:
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An icon in the location-bar showing when a site has RSS feeds. Click it to view their names and pick one to view the feed.
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When viewing a feed, render the content so you’re not forced to read raw XML. Includes buttons to hand-off the feed to 10 popular RSS readers:
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