Elemental RSS feeds don't work

At least, the Dev Journal one doesn't. You can see the stories, but the links to them all give 404.

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Reply #1 Top

I believe this is actually more widespread. Thanks for letting us know!


Mike

Reply #2 Top

Yeah the problem's the same for the Demigod dev journals. It gives a really long link, but if you delete the question mark and everything after, you end up with the standard forum address and it loads the correct page.

Reply #3 Top

This is still a problem, is anybody going to fix this?

Reply #4 Top

Im still having this problem as well!

Reply #5 Top

Do any RSS feeds work yet? I can't seem to get them..I just get a 404 - File or directory not found

Reply #6 Top

What specific RSS are you trying to get to, and what reader are you using to access it?

 

Reply #7 Top

I'm using FF and the Live Bookmarks bar. I'm trying to access recent posst. Usually, when there is an RSS feed available you get, as I'm sure you know, a subscribe button in the URL bar. This no longer seems to exist on any forum here.

 

The RSS feed in my browser still works, I still get the titles of the posts, just when I click on them I get the 404 error. The RSS feeds URL is :-

Feed Location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/1/recent?format=xml

Site Location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/Wincustomize/recent

 

All other RSS feeds from all other sites still work as normal.

 

 

 

Reply #8 Top

I'm using the iGoogle homepage reader, I clicked on the rss button in the subforum, it takes me to a feedburner page where I select google, then google homepage for a reader. From my homepage I click on a link to a recent post and it takes me to the 404 page with a really long url; if you truncate the url then you get the correct url.

https://forums.elementalgame.com/375087?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Stardock%2F27%2Fforum%2F513+%28Elemental+Forums+%C2%BB+RSS+Feed+%C2%BB+Elemental+Dev+Journals+Posts%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Reply #9 Top

Same issue with FF and Google Reader.

Here's the link:  https://forums.elementalgame.com/376076?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Stardock%2F27%2Fforum%2F513+%28Elemental+Forums+%C2%BB+RSS+Feed+%C2%BB+Elemental+Dev+Journals+Posts%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

And here's the error:

404 - File or directory not found.

The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Reply #10 Top

Likewise.  Been annoying me since forever.

Pretty much the forum fails to parse the querystring when its appended to a url.

An Easy fix might be to have your 404 page redirect to itself without the querystring unless there is no querystring, then just fail with proper 404.

 

Reply #11 Top

This will be fixed in the next forum update (looking at end of next week, if not earlier, for next update).

Bara