To answer the myriad of questions on this topic all at once rather than one at a time in my email and in comments: Yes, I know that the RSS feed doesn’t work in My Yahoo. No, I don’t know why. The http://www.feedvalidator.org website recognizes the RSS feed as valid, as do the several standalone RSS programs that I’ve tried it in. For some reason, Yahoo doesn’t want to recognize it.
In other words, this is a Yahoo problem. I have asked the programmers of this site’s software for a recommendation of how to get this working, but until then I can’t help you. I might suggest that http://www.mycatholic.com offers substantially better features directed at Catholic readers, especially Catholic blog readers. And they apparently don’t have a problem with my feed.
The issue is related to the response time of your server.
I just tried it with several other web-based readers and it doesn’t work with them either (including myCatholic.com).
Web-based RSS readers must put limits on the amount of time it will wait to receive a response from your server in order to make sure the page is displayed. Basically, a site will try to read your RSS feed, but if it can’t within a few seconds, it will stop waiting and display the rest of the page.
The reason why these time limits are necessary is because without it, a feed that either takes a long time to load or experiences a timeout would stop the display of the web-based rss feed page. In other words, without a time limit, the site you are viewing would appear to stop loading once it got to displaying your feed.
I have to think that the slow response time is mainly due to your old server. Switching to your new server should solve this problem.
That sounds logical, except this problem only cropped up when I switched software. Certainly the server was much slower before yet the feeds were still working.
On my end, the response time for the both the webpages and the RSS feeds is much slower than it was with the old software.
I have a Firefox plugin called Fasterfox that shows the time it takes to display a page. This blog post took 12.91 seconds to load and display.
I have had no problem with your RSS in either Safari’s RSS handler, or google’s personal homepage. I would suggest some of the readers getting a google account, and setting up their own personal search page, complete with RSS feeds, news, and weather.
Yours in Christ,
Grant, Google’s RSS feed for Dom’s page only works intermittently, just like most other web-based readers. Whenever there is a server timeout, Google shows a cached (old) copy of the feed.