[info]xie_xie_xie in [info]07refugees

Need feed help

I recently started a weekly newsletter to promote the Queer as Folk fandom on InsaneJournal. It's a roundup of all fandom activity on IJ, and there's a lot, so it's a long, graphics and link heavy newsletter.

I created a feed on LiveJournal for it, and have a lot of subscribers, but every time I have sent it, the entire newsletter dumps onto LJ friends pages, with, just to add insult to injury, mangled code.

I've done a LOT of feeds since moving here, and I understand them. I had it set to give a summary. The newsletter is in a table format, behind a LJ cut.

I have used my backup journal and experimented with "set title" and "set summary," with a lot of plain text before the cut, with the table eliminated, and NOTHING works. If I skip the table and set it to summary, it does truncate about halfway through, but that's not good enough.

Even "set title" results in the exact same result as "set summary."

And the commands are successful when I enter them at the IJ admin console, so that's not it.

This is the newsletter:

[info]queer_as_news

Obviously if I can't fix this, people on LJ will stop subscribing, as it's a hot mess on their friends page. I've run out of ideas, personally. If you want to see what I've tried, it's all at [info]xie_backup.

Thanks for any help you can give!

Posted on Apr. 6th, 2008 at 12:44 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]aristoboule

Hmmmm! What was really strange is that when I go to LJ to check to see if that feed is there, it says it isn't (I still have one paid account over there that expires tomorrow, haha). When I try to give it a new name, it automatically populates the feed you made.

I had the same problem with looooooooooong entries for some entries for my personal journal feed, but the parsing fixed it... I will see what else I can try!
Posted on Apr. 6th, 2008 02:49 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]xie_xie_xie

Actually, I've always gotten the "no such feed" message over on LJ, even when there was. So that's normal, at least.

If you can come up with any solution for me on this I'd be really grateful. If it's just that it's so long, I can probably come up with some fixes for that, but I don't really think it IS that long. :(

And I don't really see why all the code and graphics would be the issue, since HTML is just text, unless feeds work differently than I think they do.

Anyway... any ideas are appreciated!
Posted on Apr. 6th, 2008 05:00 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]aristoboule

If you don't mind me asking, what was the command you used in the admin console for the summary? I know for journals it's simply:

set synlevel summary

And I'd guess that for a community feed it's:

set for queer_as_news synlevel summary

Has that worked?
Posted on Apr. 6th, 2008 05:10 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]xie_backup

Yes, it accepts that command. I've typoed now and then and it rejects those, so I can tell if it worked or not.
Posted on Apr. 6th, 2008 05:14 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]xie_backup

Ooops, sorry, obviously I'm logged into the backup journal right now!
Posted on Apr. 6th, 2008 05:14 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]aristoboule

No problem! I peeked at the link you gave, and forgive my mushified brain, I couldn't see if you'd used that command or not.

I'm wondering if it's the double column layout that might do it, but it really doesn't seem like that should affect it at all. Hrm.
Posted on Apr. 6th, 2008 05:21 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]xie_xie_xie

I've done a few tests without the double columns, and it resulted in a post that was cut, but it was cut so far down that it made no difference. It affected the display, but not to the point of being a fix.
Posted on Apr. 6th, 2008 05:26 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]aristoboule

Hmmmm... I've also noticed that some other feeds on LJ aren't displaying correctly either. Now I have to wonder if it's them, or something else.
Posted on Apr. 9th, 2008 03:34 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]yourlibrarian

I hope you find the answer, and if you do I wonder if it will shed light on why feeds stop and start over here. There's at least 4 that I'm subscribed to that have just quit after coming through ok for some time. I can't help wondering if it isn't something about IJ.
Posted on Apr. 6th, 2008 07:07 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]xie_xie_xie

Hmmmm. I haven't observed that problem, but I'll watch for it now that you mention it!

Love your icon!
Posted on Apr. 6th, 2008 07:09 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]apotheosis

Not sure if this helps or not, but I've set up the feed on DeadJournal here.

There may be some native DJ issues, but most of the feeds I have running there seem to work all right.
Posted on Apr. 7th, 2008 03:24 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]xie_xie_xie

Yeah, I have about 11 feeds that all work fine. This is the only one that is messing up. :(
Posted on Apr. 7th, 2008 03:26 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply