So I decided to go ahead and make the changes that I mentioned yesterday. To summarise:
- full.rdf is now a permanent HTTP redirect to index.rdf
- full.xml is now a permanent HTTP redirect to index.xml
- index.xml is now a permanent HTTP redirect to atom.xml
- Only index.rdf and atom.xml are now advertised in the metadata for this site
If you notice anything strange with these feeds over the next couple of weeks then please let me know.
Additionally, if you’re one of the twenty-five people who reads my blog through the Live Journal davorg_full account, then now might be a good time to update your subscription so it points to davorg_blog or the misnamed daveorg_burn instead.
The easiest way to ensure this might be to request a syn_merge: write to support@livejournal.com and ask them to merge davorg_full into davorg_blog, using the URL of davorg_blog. If, that is, davorg_full no longer needs to exist on its own.
Readers of davorg_full will automatically be subscribed to davorg_blog instead.
Why not redirect full.xml directly to atom.xml and save one redirect?
I think that is what has happened. Or, at least, that’s what Live Journal support tell me has happened.Why do people still use Live Journal? Why can’t they read their RSS feeds through something like Bloglines?
Yeah, I thought of that. But as it’s issuing HTTP permanent redirect responses, every client should only get it once, so it shouldn’t be much of a problem.