WoW.com's RSS feed issues should be fixed now
by Alex Ziebart 
May 26th 2009 at 6:15PM
A lot of you have noticed some issues with our RSS feed this afternoon (and a little bit last night) and trust me, we know that you know. Our inbox has been absolutely flooded! So to try and help the confusion (and slow the flood of e-mails), here's what happened: Our network (us, Joystiq, Massively, Engadget, etc) was hit with a few database problems over the last 24 hours. It's nothing to worry about, everything is fixed now and should be just fine. In the process of making things fine, our RSS feed was pinged with all sorts of 'new' information, causing the duplicates that a lot of you saw. Seven postings of the latest Around Azeroth? WTF? Yeah, sorry about that. We definitely keep an eye on our own RSS feed to make sure everything is going smoothly, so if it isn't, we'll know about it pretty quickly.
Again, we're sorry about the spam to you guys using our RSS feed. To those of you that aren't using our RSS feed... why aren't you using it!? Google Reader is probably one of the most convenient things ever. You can find out about our various feed offerings over here.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gessilea May 26th 2009 6:31PM
Oh good, it wasn't just me! I loves me my google reader. Now how about having the tech monkeys look at linking those nice new wow.com profiles to our comments so I don't have to keep finding that random password or confirm my comment all the time?
Eric May 26th 2009 6:33PM
Great news! When I have 20-30 listings across 4-5 blogs and most of them are from wow.com it gets kind of old. Mainly when I've seen the news 4-5 times :P
JLocke May 26th 2009 7:15PM
hope you guys weren't hacked or anything, I did notice a gold spammer on one of the comments last night ;p
Alex Ziebart May 26th 2009 7:17PM
Nope, no hacking. That gold spammer just got lucky, because we couldn't do any moderation while the DB was coming back up. We had to wait awhile before we could delete it. :[
JLocke May 26th 2009 7:27PM
that's a relief :) glad every things back up to normal status
Athralsatar May 26th 2009 8:41PM
Thanks! I was wondering what was going on. I have WoW.com, Kotaku, and a few other game/WoW things on feed and it was around azeroth...around azeroth...ar..was I getting deja vu? Going insane ..no, there really were like 7 of them.
I figured you guys would fix it. ^-^ Yay!
AishaLove May 27th 2009 2:15AM
RSS feeds? what's the big deal, what info could I possibly get that I can't get by just checking the website like normal? that's easier for in my opinion.
Alex Ziebart May 27th 2009 2:16AM
The advantage is that you can add every single blog that you read to Google Reader, and it'll tell you whenever someone has updated. : ) If you only read WoW.com, you probably don't need it. If you read dozens of blogs every day like I do, Google Reader is a godsend.
Fedya May 27th 2009 5:31AM
So no more "Revenge of the Warlock"?
AishaLove May 27th 2009 3:21PM
I guess, I only check about 5 or so websites a day :P