prompting to create feeds that already exist

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after following echan's instructions on how to tell firefox to use dw as a feed handler, i proceeded to add my lj feeds to my reading list via the rss link from each feed's website. it was only after i clicked on the feed link at xkcd and was taken to a dw page that told me the address didn't have an account here yet that i started to wonder. (this was after i'd already created a second dinosaur comics feed which i'll have to delete once that function is available.)

something similar happened the other day when i tried to add the ill doctrine feed from the site (before i had set up firefox to attempt to subscribe automatically). i clicked the feed link at ill doctrine, pasted the feed address into the field at the syndication page and was told it didn't exist. however, when i tried to create the feed, i got an error message telling me that the username already existed. so i went looking for it and found the feed and discovered the address for that feed was http://feeds.feedburner.com/illdoctrine, but the address that i had been sent to was http://feeds2.feedburner.com/illdoctrine.

unfortunately the different address weirdness doesn't apply in the cases of xkcd and dinosaur comics, so i have no explanation. except gremlins, perhaps?

of course, now that i've subscribed to various feeds, when i click on them from the feed's website, i go straight to a dw page asking me if i want to modify my subscription. if i remove the subscription and try again, the feed is recognised.

i checked bugzilla and didn't find anything. i don't know if this is a bug or just me. :\ i r confused.

Comments

[matgb]

Feedburner specifically has a weird way of dealing with feeds.

feeds. is what sites link to, and has a human viewable feed witha bunch of annoying adverts for different feedreader services.

The actual feed is at feeds2, but DW can parse feeds as well, although the FX direct subscription won't work (if you copy the feeds. uri into the box on DW it'll do it though).

There is an issue with identical content feeds getting different URIs, and that's not something that DW itself can, I think, deal with, LJ has it as well.

It gets worse on some services—Wordpress blogs have an atom and an RSS feed. There are 6 different ways the same content can get syndicated just witha basic WP setup:
blog/feed
blog/feed/
blog/feed/atom
blog/feed/atom/
blog/feed/rss
blog/feed/rss/

I was going to submit the error page for name already existing as a bug, miss_s_b had created our mutual friend mark_pack_feed's feed using a different WP feed to the one I'd got, I cared not, I just wanted him on my reading page.

So I'll do that tomorrow unless someone tells me it's already a known bug.

[matgb]

Oh, and I had the same thing with XKCD—there are too feed URIs it issues, and I think there are others hidden, I meant to go look it up when I'd done the rest but haven't yet.