I'm trying to clean my feed list from inactive and abandoned feeds. While the "sort by last updated" feature of the feeds page is helpful there are a couple of things I think Feedbin could do to make this easier.
One of them might be to handle 301 redirects automatically. Currently it seems to just go along and fetch the feed from the new location but not do anything about the stored url. The specification says that clients with link editing capabilities ought to relink the reference:
The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any
future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned
URIs. Clients with link editing capabilities ought to automatically
re-link references to the Request-URI to one or more of the new
references returned by the server, where possible.
As Feedbin "owns" the reference to the feed, it could probably follow this recommendation to the benefit of it's users.
Due to how blogs are often moved from one platform to another, and authors often do not have the option to set HTTP headers, I personally believe that RSS and other feed formats should have a way to specify in the content that the feed has moved, but for now the 301 HTTP status is at least one standard way to do this. If Feedbin would adjust the feed URL accordingly it would help not to lose track of blogs when the old URL stops working.
Hi,
I'm trying to clean my feed list from inactive and abandoned feeds. While the "sort by last updated" feature of the feeds page is helpful there are a couple of things I think Feedbin could do to make this easier.
One of them might be to handle 301 redirects automatically. Currently it seems to just go along and fetch the feed from the new location but not do anything about the stored url. The specification says that clients with link editing capabilities ought to relink the reference:
As Feedbin "owns" the reference to the feed, it could probably follow this recommendation to the benefit of it's users.
Due to how blogs are often moved from one platform to another, and authors often do not have the option to set HTTP headers, I personally believe that RSS and other feed formats should have a way to specify in the content that the feed has moved, but for now the 301 HTTP status is at least one standard way to do this. If Feedbin would adjust the feed URL accordingly it would help not to lose track of blogs when the old URL stops working.