Bill Kearney <wkearney99@hotmail.com> wrote:
This is precisely the sort of reason I've suggested not using HTTP errors alone in handling feeds going offline or moving to a new location. Something that indicates, in the feed, that it's being moved to a new URL would be one way for anything reading the feed to understand where to go instead.
There's a very low tech solution that doesn't get used enough. Just put an item in, explaining in plain text that the feed is moving and give it a bit of randomness so that the aggregator keeps re-displaying it. If there's a human involved it's quite likely to get seen. Unfortunately putting the info anywhere in the channel info probably won't work as often this is never displayed.
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