Comments on: Planet Flooding http://etbe.coker.com.au/2009/01/12/planet-flooding/ Linux, politics, and other interesting things Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:45:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: etbe http://etbe.coker.com.au/2009/01/12/planet-flooding/comment-page-1/#comment-17531 etbe Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:32:00 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=1003#comment-17531 Brendan: Try comparing the XML from your blog to the XML from blogs that seem to work correctly. btmorex: I was not aiming at anyone in particular. This happens frequently, many people do it. Brendan: Try comparing the XML from your blog to the XML from blogs that seem to work correctly.

btmorex: I was not aiming at anyone in particular. This happens frequently, many people do it.

]]> By: btmorex http://etbe.coker.com.au/2009/01/12/planet-flooding/comment-page-1/#comment-17530 btmorex Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:45:03 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=1003#comment-17530 Post should be renamed: "David Welton, fix your blog" Post should be renamed: “David Welton, fix your blog”

]]> By: Jon http://etbe.coker.com.au/2009/01/12/planet-flooding/comment-page-1/#comment-17529 Jon Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:55:50 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=1003#comment-17529 URL swallowed in last post; http://jmtd.net/log/planet_spamming/ URL swallowed in last post; http://jmtd.net/log/planet_spamming/

]]> By: Jon http://etbe.coker.com.au/2009/01/12/planet-flooding/comment-page-1/#comment-17528 Jon Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:55:07 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=1003#comment-17528 Various Debian packages have patches in them to reduce the number of items in a feed for this reason, details at Various Debian packages have patches in them to reduce the number of items in a feed for this reason, details at

]]> By: Brendan http://etbe.coker.com.au/2009/01/12/planet-flooding/comment-page-1/#comment-17523 Brendan Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:47:26 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=1003#comment-17523 Bravo. Any idea on how I can get Planet LA to pay attention to the titles of my Wordpress posts (- brendanscott.wordpress.com/)? Bravo.
Any idea on how I can get Planet LA to pay attention to the titles of my WordPress posts (- brendanscott.wordpress.com/)?

]]> By: etbe http://etbe.coker.com.au/2009/01/12/planet-flooding/comment-page-1/#comment-17520 etbe Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:54:31 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=1003#comment-17520 rob: If you merely change the number of posts then you stop it being a problem. No need to read the cost as every blog server has a configuration option for this. If that wasn't an option all that would be necessary in a worst-case scenario is to have a copy of the feed XML file from your old blog be available for a couple of days after installing the new software. That means a couple of days of not creating new posts, but generally after changing software you are too busy fixing things to write new posts for a while. Horms: Planet flooding is only the tip of the iceberg. It's quite simply to configure a Planet to not have this particular problem. Other problems such as unclosed HTML tags are more insidious. I recently dropped a feed from my personal Planet installation because they had an unclosed <A> tag that made the entire rest of my Planet page be a link to their site. I'm sure that there are issues with hostile Javascript etc as well. rob: If you merely change the number of posts then you stop it being a problem. No need to read the cost as every blog server has a configuration option for this.

If that wasn’t an option all that would be necessary in a worst-case scenario is to have a copy of the feed XML file from your old blog be available for a couple of days after installing the new software. That means a couple of days of not creating new posts, but generally after changing software you are too busy fixing things to write new posts for a while.

Horms: Planet flooding is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s quite simply to configure a Planet to not have this particular problem. Other problems such as unclosed HTML tags are more insidious. I recently dropped a feed from my personal Planet installation because they had an unclosed tag that made the entire rest of my Planet page be a link to their site.

I’m sure that there are issues with hostile Javascript etc as well.

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