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asymptote ([personal profile] tree) wrote in [community profile] getting_started2009-04-27 08:14 am
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prompting to create feeds that already exist

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.
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[personal profile] matgb 2009-04-26 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you restarted Fx? It only starts working onc eyou've restarted. If you have, gimme a screenshot of the bit of about:config and I'll see if I can spot an error.

[personal profile] ex_beautyofgr925 2009-04-26 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I have restarted several times. :/

Here's a current screencap.

My only option on the pulldown menu is Google/Chrome, obvs.

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[personal profile] matgb 2009-04-26 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That's weird. Two guesses.

First, you've got dw.org/syn/?url=

I think it should be dw.org/syn?url= (ie remove the / after syn)

If that doesn't work, try deleting 3, 4 & 5, and renumbering your DW one to 3—it's possible that they need to be sequential but I don't think it's the case, pretty sure it's the extra /

G'luck.

[personal profile] ex_beautyofgr925 2009-04-26 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, renumbering it worked. Thank you for your help!