Bad RSS Feeds! Bad!

Saturday, May 7th, 2005 at 6:07 pm

I have about 100 feeds in my RSS reader, and I realized something: I am sick and tired of broken feeds. Here is a list of feeds I am no longer subscribing to because they are either missing titles for the individual articles, the individual articles are clipped to a specific length requiring you to visit the website to read more, or are missing content altogether (clumped by issue):

Missing full article text, only contains short blurb:
Apple Insider
Ars Technica (feed also has ads)
Blues News
Curmudgeon Gamer
Daring Fireball
Drunken Blog
Latte
FredArt
GameGrene
LiveScience
Mac OSX Hints
Mozilla.org
Mozillazine
OSNews
Red Assed Baboon
Space.com
Library of Babel
Uncertain Principles
Talking Points Memo (also misses proper titles on the articles)
eToyChest

Missing full article text, missing even a short blurb:
Bureau 42 (also includes the number of comments in the feed name, which fubars most RSS readers: the readers don’t know that the different titles are all the same article)
EuroGamer
LinuxGames
Sci-Fi Storm

Other:
LXer (links for articles do not go to LXer, but to the remote sites’ articles instead)

I am dropping these feeds until their admins acquire enough clue to fix them.

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