Do you remember last week, when I went through a bit of boring admin, and I told you all that once a year I tend to get a bit bored and like to play with things in the background?
Well, I decided to have a little play with things in the background.
And I fucked it up MASSIVELY.
Or rather, Feedburner fucked it up massively.
By using Feedburner’s swish new email subscription service (thank you to the eight of you who have subscribed so far) I invalidated the podcast feed, so those of you who have subscribed in iTunes, or one of the other podcast services, would no longer get any updates.
Long story short, I thought changing the feed name to something more memorable, like Iamlividpodcast would fix it. Which it did. Hooray for me!
Until someone pointed out that all of the subscribers to the old feed would now disappear and would no longer get any updates. Booo for Feedburner!
Any normal person with a long history of covering their tracks would simply change the feed name back to what it was, and disable the email notifications, thus ensuring you would never know about their fuck up. Alas, I tried that, but it wouldn’t let me (it says the old feed name it is already reassigned, which it clearly isn’t).
So this is the position in which I find myself. Cliff and I have a podcast, but no-one will be able to listen to it (unless you listen to it through this site). If you happen to be one of our few hundred listeners, we would much appreciate it if you could update your subscriptions to this feed http://feeds2.feedburner.com/iamlividpodcast.
If you know anyone else who listens, but doesn’t read here, perhaps you could pass on the message? Feel free to miss out the whole EPIC FAIL bit, perhaps you could say it is a new and improved service or something. Big me up a bit. Lie. I don’t care.
You might get this message more than once in the coming week as I will be updating the feed details all over the place, so I apologise in advance if you keep hearing what a fucktard I’ve been.
Just when we were starting to get the hang of actually making the podcasts as well…
Lin · January 23, 2009 at 10:35 am
Forget all that crap and just make a series on Channel 4.
Admin comment by Mr Angry · January 23, 2009 at 10:52 am
Lin – I don’t suppose you are a commissioning editor by any chance..?