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For a while now my liked.rss feed from reddit has been well and truly knackered. You can see the results of this on the right-hand side of this page, in my sidebar — just keep scrolling, you’ll reach it eventually…
Yesterday I found out why: apparently all reddit rss feeds now require a login cookie. This is fine when you’re logged in to reddit and viewing my liked items, but not so good when you’re trying to display a feed in a feed reader or on a blog. This has been reported on both the bugs subreddit and vanilla reddit, so far without any response — not even an acknowledgement that there’s a problem.
And that’s not the only unfixed problem: I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve tried to submit a link, only to be told “you’re submitting too fast!”. Well, I’m not the only one. This has been reported again and again, and there still hasn’t been any response.
In general I do value the quality of reddit as compared to digg et al, but all these problems are beginning to take the shine off somewhat.
UPDATE: 17/10/2007: It’s fixed! Reddit changed their code at the weekend and revamped most of the site. With this came a change in the way RSS feeds are handled. The upshot is it now works fine, so I’m happy!
Tags: bugs, Reddit, RSS, Social Bookmarking
October 12, 2007 at 9:12 am
Totally unrelated, but I thought you might enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vei8lDklas
October 12, 2007 at 11:33 am
Indeed I did! It’s great that he has a new song idea, which he then has to test in front of some stunning vista. This is the way you have to be if you play a hang.
June 4, 2008 at 2:12 pm
[...] October 11, 2007, lostmoya wrote a post describing similar issues. While lostmoya’s October 17 update states that the problem is fixed, I have not found [...]
June 4, 2008 at 2:15 pm
lostmoya, is your feed still working for you? May I ask what URL you subscribed to? I am not experiencing success subscribing to my own “liked items” feed at Reddit. I went to my own page on Reddit, then clicked the “subscribe to RSS” button in Firefox. While I can subscribe to the RSS, no stories are piped through.
I wrote a brief post about this issue and will update as the status changes:
http://www.scanningthehorizon.com/2008/06/04/reddit-rss-feed-for-liked-items-status-broken/
Thank you,
Dimitri
June 4, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Thanks Dimitri. I’ve replied on your blog too, but my liked feed is:
http://reddit.com/user/lostmoya/liked.rss
If you can’t get at yours through Firefox, try substituting your reddit username for lostmoya in the URL above and see if you get any success.
June 4, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Er… I am having a “mentally slow day.” It is fixed. The error was entirely my own.
Thank you for the comment!
June 10, 2008 at 8:48 am
Semi-update: I just realised that they’ve changed the feed URL within the last few days. It’s now:
http://www.reddit.com/user/lostmoya/liked/.rss
Note the extra /! I’ve updated my blog so that the feed now displays correctly.
June 10, 2008 at 10:53 am
Thank you for the update, Lostmoya!