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OPML import fixed

In some rare cases the import of an OPML file was hanging which caused a lockup situation. This issue is fixed now, and the accounts where this occurred can give it another try.
Import your OPML file.

Posted on April 17, 2007 14:29 (GMT +01:00) by Robin | Permanent link | 6 Comments
Tags: update, opml

Comments

MadJo commented, on April 19, 2007 at 22:54 (GMT +01:00):

I'm sorry to abuse this comment form to report another problem.
Whenever I try to subscribe to a feed, many times I'm confronted with this message:
"Something went wrong, in dowloading or processing of this feed. Please try again."

Is there some trick to it?

The URL is a correct one:
http://www.whispers.libsyn.com/rss
So that can't be it, right?

Robin commented, on April 20, 2007 at 09:36 (GMT +01:00):

@ MadJo: we're seeing some instability there sometimes too, so we are looking into it. I just added the feed you tried, and it's added and available here: http://www.podnova.com/channel/244525/

MadJo commented, on April 20, 2007 at 15:16 (GMT +01:00):

@Robin, okay, thanks :) I've subscribed to that feed.

BTW, do you have any checks on multiple instances of the same feed in the 'adding new feeds process'? Or do you prune the database every so often? See for instance these search results: http://www.podnova.com/search/whispers/

Robin commented, on April 20, 2007 at 15:47 (GMT +01:00):

@MadJo: The two Libsyn feeds will periodically be cleaned up by our system. The podcastpickle feed however is just another unique feed which we don't handle with. IMHO it is a bad thing to duplicate feeds. If you really think you need to have multiple copies of your feed, then it'd be better to have one 'main' feed and put a permanent redirect (301) to it from the copy.

MadJo commented, on April 23, 2007 at 16:12 (GMT +01:00):

@Robin,
Well it's not that I need a separate feed... I was just wondering.
My problem was that I forgot to search the feeds, so I manually tried adding the feed, but later I found out that this feed was already in the listing.

I could imagine a feature that when someone manually adds a feed, that the adding-process checks whether that URL is already used in the database (and perhaps using a fuzzy search (with/without http, and with/without www in the address)), and instead of adding a new one, it would use the one that already exists. :)
Not sure if this is technically feasible.

jjmouse commented, on June 1, 2007 at 20:20 (GMT +01:00):

Hmm... looks like you still have hanging problems. I uploaded my OPML output from Juice yesterday, and it quickly absorbed 3, but is still hung on the remain 18.