KotlinBy / awesome-kotlin

Hey there I am using theoldreader since google reader stoped working. However for some reason both full and last 20 RSS are not working for them.

I have tweeted and send them a support email but I strongly believe the issue is not theirs since I have never ever had issue with other feed but http://kotlin.link/rss.xml just doesn't work.

A quick check shows multiple issues:

This RSS feed is actually an Atom feed, so instead of

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Kotlin.Link - 20 latest" href="/rss.xml"/>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Kotlin.Link - full archive" href="/rss-full.xml"/>

it should be

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Kotlin.Link - 20 latest" href="/rss.xml"/>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Kotlin.Link - full archive" href="/rss-full.xml"/>

entries are missing updated fields. The reader just don't have any information about the publication dates. There is only a global updated and dc:date, but they might not work with The Old Reader. Anyway, it's just wron: feed timestamp is not equal to entries timestamps

The feed is generated only for "Articles":

awesome-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/link/kotlin/scripts/SiteGenerator.kt

Lines 66 to 72 in 373bd58

    
           override fun generateFeeds(articles: List<Article>) { 
        
               val rss = rssGenerator.generate(articles.take(20), "rss.xml") 
        
               val fullRss = rssGenerator.generate(articles, "rss-full.xml") 
        
               writeFile("$dist/rss.xml", rss) 
        
               writeFile("$dist/rss-full.xml", fullRss) 
        
           }

As far as I see, there are no new articles on the site for a loooooong time. Basically, the last update was two years ago. Since then, feed didn't change.

Question is: should we fix that at all? Is it an essential part of the site or could it be just sacrificed, having the fact it's stale for two years already…

I would love to have a working RSS since Kotlin is going strong this days and more and more stuff will be coming

Thank you @gochev and @madhead, I'll take care of this today

let us/me know when it is done so I can test it :)

@gochev please try now :)

http://kotlin.link/rss.xml still doesn't work

@gochev So w3c thinks that this are valid feeds, I see requests from freshrss.org, inoreader.com (Neat User-Agent! Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; inoreader.com; 10 subscribers), feedbin as well (Feedbin feed-id:1778771 - 3 subscribers), but I don't see any request from theoldreader. I'm created an account there and trying it out – no luck. My tt-rss work well with this feed at the same time.

I'm sending an email to the theoldreader support, let's see if they can help with the issue.

Apparently, theoldreader using FeedlyApp/1.0 (http://www.feedly.com) user-agent, but anyway – no request from him to the updated feed. I'll wait a little until their cache expire

Ruslan,

I am still looking into what could be going on with this feed. I also tried to subscribe to it and found it could not get the URL yet the feed appears to be valid. Once I know something I will update you.

Thanks for reaching out and thanks for using The Old Reader!

@gochev Issue seems resolved

Happy New Year! 🎅

	override fun generateFeeds(articles: List<Article>) {
	val rss = rssGenerator.generate(articles.take(20), "rss.xml")
	val fullRss = rssGenerator.generate(articles, "rss-full.xml")

	writeFile("$dist/rss.xml", rss)
	writeFile("$dist/rss-full.xml", fullRss)
	}

theoldreader doesn't like this RSS