You may have noticed that we’ve recently migrated to a new version of our site. Our goal in the redesign has been to make the site easier to read and navigate, and to give you easier access to the wealth of articles in our archive.
During the changeover to our new site, several things got mangled in our RSS feed. The link tag, which makes it easy to click through to the article on our site, got stripped. And we neglected to include a guid (globally unique ID) tag that helps RSS readers determine whether an article is new or not. The result has been that for the past few days our RSS feed has been hard to use, and you may have seen the most recent ten articles duplicated in your RSS client, or marked as new when you’d already read them or flagged them as read.
We’d like to apologize emphatically for these mistakes and for any irritation or confusion it may have caused for you. As people on Twitter love to point out, it’s ironic when a site about UX gives its users a poor experience. It was not an attempt to generate extra traffic to those articles; it was just a technical snafu in the midst of a big change to our site.
We believe we’ve corrected the issues that caused the duplication of articles in our feed, however, that duplication may occur one more time as we commit the fix to our production server and resume publishing. Sorry for that!
If you run into any issues or have any suggestions for us, we’d love it if you’d let us know using our Get Satisfaction page at https://uxm.ag/feedback. We’re better as publishers and editors than we are as designers or engineers, so any constructive feedback is tremendously helpful to us.
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