No more blog (user) subscriptions

Published on July 15, 2009 in General Blogginess.

I turned off blog [user] subscriptions on the blogy blog (i.e. here, not http://orblogs.org). It was just getting to much traffic from auto-subscribe spammers, and little from actual citizens. It shouldn’t really matter, since we don’t use the subscription accounts anyway, except for an early plan to allow known subscribers to be post authors.

I had to go through and do a “best guess” as to whether accounts like “agniast8ed” from Russia was a human or auto-subscribe. For the most part I erred on the side of deletion.  If I deleted your account, and you’re a real human being, I apologize. But again, it doesn’t matter, there’s no reason to have an account unless you want to eventually post, and if that’s the case, I’d know about it anyway.

Account or no, you can still subscribe to the feed. It’s a slow feed, with not many updates– because there’s not to terribly much to update you on. The Oregon Blogs aggregator is running at a functional level, and those of us on the planning side are currently figuring out how to proceed with code sprints and improvements in the long term. The best thing you can do now is use it. And tell us about bugs, either by sending a shout to the mailing list or tweeting to @ORBlogs. This will help us continue the improvement of the aggregator.

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