A few weeks ago, I posted a note explaining that I’m moving the blog hosting from WordPress to Theobloggers. The post was captioned “Expect Weirdness.”
Well, we pulled the switch and the blog is now a Theobloggers blog — and weirdness happened. Email subscribers received about 20 of my old posts due to a glitch in the transition.
It’s not spam — and it shouldn’t happen again. But do let me know if it does.
The good news is that Theobloggers managed to get your subscription carried over to the new hosting service, and you won’t have to re-subscribe.
So, I apologize for the glitch. (And is it really that awful to get my posts twice? Just think of it as an opportunity re-read some of your favorites.) There may be others.
If you posted a comment during the switch over, it may be lost, so either let me know or repost. I still have everything at the old site that was ever there, so nothing should be lost.
Some of the older posts didn’t make it, but they’ll be brought over later. It seems I have a somewhat larger than average blog, and Theobloggers has had to work overtime to move the massive amount of data over.
Again, I apologize for the glitch. Please let me know if you find other problems with the relocated blog.
I'd like to echo the apologies. I set up the subscriptions before moving over the posts and comments from the last several weeks. When the posts moved over, the system treated them as new posts and the subscription system sent you notifications as though they were. It won't happen again… unless Jay publishes 20 new posts in a day. Judging from his past activity, that's not out of the question.
Welcome, readers, to TheoBloggers.com! Let us know if you experience any problems.
i think all the comment subscriptions were lost. i'm not getting them now.
–Guy
Guy,
They're gone irretrievably. It's the only loss we've identified so far. You'll have to re-subscribe. (I assume you're talking about an email subscription. Let me know if this is an RSS problem.)
It's actually easier to subscribe to comments via RSS in a reader such as Google Reader. I'd be glad to post something on how to do that.
Comments are now showing newest to oldest instead of chronologically — makes it hard to follow the thread. Several posts republished to the RSS feed, with shortened content; you were publishing full posts before; now it's just a line or two.
I was wondering what happened! Ha ha
Brad and theobloggers rock!! 🙂
Cathy,
RSS feeds are set for full text. Emails are set for excerpts. Neither is a change. Are they not coming through that way?
Cathy,
I see where Theobloggers had beaten me to setting RSS feeds to full. Another bug down …
All,
Emails should now be fulltext. In the past, I think Feedburner subscriptions were fulltext and WordPress subscriptions were excerpts only. Another bug bites the dust.