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RSS Stlll Broken? Powerusers Unite?

I posted a question a few weeks if not a month ago about how the RSS feeds have been horribly broken this last month.

Its crazy that its still broken this period of time. If you agree just post a response of anykind? You agree Or Not.

If mahalo crushes the most powerful tool for us pro's to answer questions effectively then how are they going to get good answers or SEO. :(
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kelraye78 | 2 years ago
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I agree. It is very frustrating. Having to actually go to Mahalo Answers and search for questions within a particular topic or category is not really a major hassle, but it can be time consuming, and like they say: time is money. I have a Google desktop sidebar with an RSS widget that constantly keeps me updated on all of the feeds that I am following. It would be nice if the RSS feeds from here would work so that I could be alerted to the questions that are of interest to me. I think that would enable me to answer even more questions, since these are topics within my own personal areas of expertise, instead of having to take extra time to research answers to other questions that I know little about.

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dward | 2 years ago Report

Here's an example of a broken feed.
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/feeds/category/technology-and-internet

About 35-45% of these are broken most of the time.

I don't care if the reference t osister sites hosting the data or not. A URL redirect or some script server side should be able to fix this. Its crazy.

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socalsue | 2 years ago
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I read this question using Google Reader. I subscribe to the full feed for Mahalo Answers, so maybe it is at the topic level where things aren't working.

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dward | 2 years ago Report

Yeh, its broken alright. Its probably borken even in that level. See I was told that there trying to expand there footprint buy migrating some ot the questions over to otehr domains. (Hence i.e.- Iphone questions on iphoneques.com; fictious example). While the RSS publishses if you click on one of those links in your reader you get a 404 page on mahao's site.

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socalsue | 2 years ago Report

I have been successful at clicking through to all of the sister sites. Here is the all inclusive feed http://www.mahalo.com/answers/feeds/latest/ in case you want to test it out. Hope this helps.

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kelraye78 | 2 years ago Report

Thanks for the info, Sue, but I myself am not really interested in the full feed. One of the problems for me at the moment is that some questions on a particular topic are posted on Mahalo, while others are posted on the sister sites. I just noticed that you can sign up for RSS on the sister sites, but I have not been able to test that out yet. That still leaves out questions within a particular category that are asked through MA. I guess I am just lazy. I don't like sifting through stuff, but hopefully, when the sister Mahalo Network sites begin to generate more traffic, things will even out....but there is no telling how long that will take.

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