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11-09-2016, 08:01
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If you read this blog via the desktop site rather than on a mobile, you will have noticed that in the left-hand sidebar there are a couple of blogrolls, showing the latest posts on blogs I think are worth reading (although not necessarily ones I always agree with), displayed in date order, with the newest first. Something similar can be found on many other blogs, such as Tandleman (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.co.uk/). In practice, this is one of the main ways people keep up with new postings on blogs that interest them.
However, in the past week, something seems to have gone wrong, with blogs hosted via WordPress apparently having lost their timestamp and dropped to the bottom of the listings. This includes both blogs in the Beer and Pubs category such as Boak & Bailey (http://boakandbailey.com/) and Retired Martin (https://retiredmartin.com/), and ones in the general category such as Frank Davis (https://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/) and Head Rambles (http://headrambles.com/).
Initially, it appeared as though this was a WordPress problem, but further digging by “Grandad” from Head Rambles has unearthed the following:

It looks like it's my old friends in Google are up to their tricks again.
It seems the feed reading blogrolls take their information from a yoke called Google Feed API (https://developers.google.com/feed/?csw=1). Google are in the process of depreciating that so it looks like the Blogger widget [and the Wordpress plugin that I use] are very unlikely to work in the future. A massive shame!So it doesn’t look like the problem is going to be fixed, and I’m left wondering what to do. Do I continue with the current blogrolls, in the full knowledge that they no longer work properly and unfairly relegate many good blogs to the bottom of the list? Or do I think about creating a more limited selection of “favourite” blogs ignoring the timestamps, which on the other hand could disappoint anyone left out?


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