Well, it took me about a week to break Thesis, although I have no idea what I have done to it.
I’ve never had issues with my rss feeds in the past. Granted, I don’t think I’ve ever had more than 25 subscribers, but still, everything always worked just fine. When Google took over Feedburner, I waited as long as I could, but finally migrated over to the “new” service a couple of months ago. For a few weeks, I didn’t notice anything, likely because I wasn’t posting much.
But then I got Thesis and started fiddling with things. When I started working on the footer, trying to get more usability out of it with some pretty hefty changes. Alas, none of the changes worked the way I wanted them to, so I went to bed after setting everything back the way it was. Or at least I thought I set everything back to the way it was.
I woke up the next morning with the following message waiting for me in my inbox from the good folks at Feedburner:
Sorry
This feed does not validate.
In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendation.
[help]
Source: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobbFlynn
Looking into it a bit further, I discovered that I had also lost all my subscribers except for 1 (which I think is me, oddly enough. Guess I’ll find out when I publish this post!), and that the 2 “help” links were really anything but help. I know what Feedburner does, but I don’t know how it does it, so their explanations as to what is actually wrong with the feed doesn’t go very far in telling me how to fix it.
So right now, I have a subscribe link that doesn’t subscribe, and I’ll have to wait until the weekend to try and figure out a. how to fix it, or, b. some sort of workaround. Drag. If anyone has suggestions or random thoughts on the matter, I’d love to hear them.
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