Ok guys, a miracle appears to have happened! My blog feed has returned from wherever it mysteriously went to die! It is a ZOMBIE BLOG FEED you guys! Seriously, I was literally steps away from having to burn the blog down and rebuild. Hurrah! (P.S. if you missed it, here are the deets)
So what now? First off, those of you who subscribe to an RSS feed or feed reader should now see all the posts dating from Monday, September 17th through now. Hopefully all of you who subscribe by email will get them soon too (my email hasn’t come through yet but I am hopeful). And once again tweets should be going out announcing posts. Yeah! If for some reason you are not getting your notifications, or something looks hinky, please tell me and I’ll check it out. But for now I am crossing my fingers and doing a tentative happy dance. (BTW, if you ever go more than a day without seeing a new post, check the blog because that would be unusual.)
Second, I want to give a HUGE thanks to all those of you who helped me work through this over the past week. It has been hellish in the extreme and I am lucky my husband didn’t leave me after my 100th freak out. Special thanks to Brandon Shire who went above and beyond to try to find me help to solve the problem. You are awesome. And a super special thank you to Ryan Gatto at Cat on the Couch. I contacted them for some professional help when things were really looking bleak. Not only did Ryan get back to me immediately, but he spent a ton of time helping me try to resolve the problem, then didn’t want any payment because he couldn’t fix it. Not to mention following up with me today to check in and basically being all around awesome. You guys, he is a rock star and I encourage you to check out his site if you ever need any web services.
Last thing… What did you miss? Well, it should hopefully all be in your feed, but to make it easy, here are links to the posts that went up while the feed was down. Don’t forget that the giveaway for Afflicted by Brandon Shire is still going on (and I will extend it by two days to give you guys a chance to stop by if you missed it).
- Review and Giveaway: Afflicted by Brandon Shire
- Guest Post: Bound by Ink and Written in Flesh by K. Vale
- Review: His Heart’s Obsession by Alex Beecroft
- Guest Post and Giveaway: J.L. Merrow and Josephine Myles (Hot Pressure Blog Tour)
- Review: The Hot Floor by Josephine Myles
- Review: The Guitarist in the Fae Queen’s Court by Amber Kell
- Review: Pressure Head by J.L. Merrow
- Review: Nate’s Deputy by Lavinia Lewis
- Review: An Elf for All Centuries by S.A. Garcia
- Review: Fields of Gold by Dev Bentham
- Review: Redemption by Fire by Andrew Grey
- Review: Gregory’s Rebellion by Lavinia Lewis
Yay!!! Congrats Jay! 🙂 It’s strange how problems are mysteriously solved sometimes. I had that happen with my printer several months ago. It wasn’t “communicating” properly with my computer. I couldn’t make copies or print anything. I reinstalled the software and tried everything else I could think of. No luck, so I just left it alone for over a month. One day I decided to try it out and it was working again. Go figure! Hope your blog feed continues to remain problem free. I’m sure your husband does, too. 😀
LOL, thanks Lisa!
I don’t know if this information helps at all – I subscribe to the RSS feed via Google Reader and I have been receiving your blog posts regularly (including lots of Test posts). Unless you believe the problem to have been intermittent (i.e. only affecting some posts but not all) the RSS feed sems to have been working fine for me.
Do you subscribe to the joyfullyjay.com/feed version, or the feedburner one (feeds.feedburner.com/joyfullyjay)? Apparently the original feed (the first one) worked all along. But the feedburner version died and that is the one that most folks subscribe too b/c that is the one attached to the RSS button on my blog. It took a while for me to figure that out (with a lot of help) but that pointed to a feedburner problem, not a problem with the actual feed itself.
Sorry I bogged you down with a million test posts! Glad you were still getting the content though!
I have a “Subscribe” button on the bookmark bar of my Macbook which I installed from Google Reader and which searches for an RSS feed. I suppose it must pick up the .com feed version, though I don’t know I’m afraid! It would explain why I was able to continue to see your blogs. In the past, on a PC, I would have simply clicked the button on your blog too and picked up the feed burner version.