Got a question about FeedLand?

[scripting]

This is the place...

[oevl]

Hi Dave, I can connect to Drummer with the new email-based system, but when trying to sign-on Feedland, it says "There was an error sending the email: There is no user with that email address."

I still can read my feeds, https://feedland.org/?username=oevl

Thanks in advance.

[scripting]

@oevl -- the two products don't share an identity system. you have to create a new account for FeedLand.

[oevl]

Because of those messages it seemed to me that that was the case.

And Feedland says my username is already taken.

[matthewl]

Hi Dave, I have an account on Feedland, but it now needs an email address to reset my password. I created my account when it was using Twitter as a login, but this has been dropped now. Can I be re-linked to my account on Feedland?

[scripting]

sorry -- you can't log in with twitter, so you must create another account (takes less than a minute), and subscribe to the same feeds you had on the previous account. if you tell me what the old account was (the twitter handle) i can show you how to do that.

[matthewl]

My existing account name (and Twitter name) is matthewlang.

[scripting]

It looks like you just have the default starter set of feeds.

https://feedland.org/opml?screenname=matthewlang

So there's hardly any point in restoring them. Just create a new account with your email address and when it asks if you want some starter feeds just say yes.

[matthewl]

Will do, thanks!

[scripting]

If you had more feeds, I would have suggested choosing the last option from the Subscribe sub-menu and giving it the URL of your old feeds. Here's a screen shot.

[AboutRSS]

Hi. Thers's a tiny issue that for instance "http://aaa.com/feed" and "https://aaa.com/feed" are treated as two different RSS feeds rather than being merged into one.

Thanks for the great work by the way.

[troutcolor]

Hi Dave,
I've got quite a lot of blogs that show errors and are not being updated in FeedLand. As far as I can see they are all WordPress sites. If I go to the feed page and "Check Now" I get an error: "There was an error checking the feed: There was an error communicating with the server."

My own feed was on showing errors (it just started) so I unsubscribed and then tried to resubscribe. After quite a while I got a dialogue: "There was an error communicating with the server." I can download the feed with curl: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/feed/

Is there anything I can check?

[scripting]

@troutcolor -- let's figure out what's going on.

It looks like you're using feedland.com and not feedland.org, yes?

I looked at your feed list there.

https://feedland.com/?username=johnjohnston

Is that the page in your screen shot?

Noted that you're viewing by Title, and when I did the same I saw what you saw.

There are a lot of red feed in the list when viewed that way.

I checked your feed in feeder, and it's able to read it. That's the same code that FeedLand uses to read feeds and it was able to read your feed.

https://feeder.scripting.com/returnjson?feedurl=https://johnjohnston.info/blog/feed/

That's always a good way to check a feed to see where the problem might lie.

I tried unsubscribing your feed and re-subscribing and found it took a long time, as you reported, but it did eventually come back with me subscribed.

BTW, it would be helpful if you did not address the question to me by name. If someone else might be able to help in my experience they won't if the request is addressed to someone specifically.