27 Feb 2009

When technology woes affect BJP

Author:

Olivier Laurent

Over the past few weeks, we have had a lot of emails from our readers about problems with the RSS feeds for both our main website and this blog. While, the RSS feed for 1854 has been fixed (thanks guys for letting us know about it), the one for bjp-online.com is still a mess - all articles have the same synopsis and random content that shouldn't be on a RSS feed shows up.

I'd like to say that we'll be able to fix these issues shortly, but that would be lying. Our website was designed back in 2000 (yes, nine years ago) and it starts to show (to be frank it started to show in 2004 I am sure!). At that time, RSS did not exist in its current form. The feed was only added a couple of years ago as an add-on fix.

But we're currently working to have it fixed, but that will probably take a couple of months, as we will have to deal with the site's entire architecture. In the meantime, if you do want to be updated as soon as a new story is published on BJP Online, you have one other option: Twitter.

You can follow our latest update here: http://twitter.com/1854.

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