RSS feed problems. Now *this* is compelling content.

July 24, 2008

Lately, a bunch of my RSS feeds have been silent all day (or sometimes longer than a day), then popping up with dozens of new items all at once. Usually it’s a bunch of posts I haven’t seen yet, but occasionally it’s a bunch of old ones. What I want to know is whether this is a Google Reader problem, or, e.g., a GawkerPlex problem. Have any of you who don’t use Google Reader (are there any of you?) run into this problem?

Second problem: For some reason, as of a week or so ago, Google Reader is including all of my shared items (which, pretty much by definition, I’ve already read) in my “Unread Items” count. It’s also including them in my “All Items” stream, so I can’t practically use that to scan my new items.

Is this what resting on your laurels look like? Or is Google’s development team busy working out the kinks on Google Reader 2.0?

Update: Well, that’s one feed accounted for. But my general query remains!

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