@Gabz I don’t think I ever asked, what is this job where you are out looking at different kinds of crops?
@Burk I work at a seed company (Syngenta). Basically our roll is quality control. We do a lot of seed purity tests but sometimes when need to go out to the fields to check phenotypes. And they do more than just corn, about 27 other crops.
@Burk unrelated!! I have a quick question (hope you’d know the answer since in my mind you’re the Blot expert 😅). If I move my blog (back) to Blot and using my current domain would that break the RSS? By that I mean, people that have subscribed to my RSS from my hosted Mb, would have to subscribe again if I moved to Blot.
@Gabz Definitely not an expert! BUT I believe the rss feed links are different? On blot it's domain.com/feed.rss and on m.b it's domain.com/feed.xml
I don't think they are strictly interchangable in that scenario.
📣 Anyone else here have some more light they can shed on this?
@Burk @Gabz I can't say for sure if this would be a problem (I'm a total RSS novice) but when looking at the feed for your site, it includes the Micro.blog domain (gabz.micro.blog) as well as your custom domain. That's the only thing I can think of, as an educated guess.
@Gabz @Burk @simonwoods There are two different issues here:
Breaking the feed URL that people are subscribed to, and
Making peoples’ feed readers show old posts as new again.
The first one I am fairly certain you can solve (perhaps with David’s help) by setting up a redirect from the old gabz.me/feed.xml to where the feed lives on Blot, gabz.me/feed.rss
The redirect will handle existing subscriptions, and new subscribers will get the new URL from your Blot template.
The second issue, which is what Simon identified, the GUID for each post containing your gabz.micro.blog domain, is probably much more difficult to solve—but on the plus side, it will be a nuisance exactly one time for everyone, and that’s it. (As an aside, that seems like a Micro.blog bug that the GUID is not using your actual domain name…) In any case, it seems like it would be a lot of work to solve, but maybe David has run into this before and already has something set up in Blot to preserve existing GUIDs in feeds?
@smokey @gabz @burk @simonwoods Not a bug. That’s by design so that the GUIDs don’t change when you add or update a custom domain. (I can see reasons to always use the domain too.)