I just discovered this past week that I’m no longer getting emails notifying me of comments to Irreal posts. As far as I can tell, the problem started either with the new year or when I upgraded the Disqus WordPress plugin around the same time. If anyone else is seeing a similar problem, please leave a comment.
This has had the unfortunate effect that complaints about things like missing links went unanswered and the problems unfixed. I’ve gone through the posts manually looking for unseen comments so I think things are up to date now. My apologies to those who made substantive comments on the content of a post and were seemingly ignored.
One of the comments that I missed was from Vladimir Nikishkin who noted that the links to Irreal’s RSS feed are broken. I made a quick check of my WordPress configuration and didn’t see anything related to RSS although I did find some documentation. Is anyone else seeing a problem with the RSS feed? In the 10 years that Irreal has been running on WordPress, I’ve never before had a complaint about the feed so I’d like to make sure this is a general problem before I commit resources to hunting down a solution.
In the mean time, I’ll ping Disqus to see if they know why I’m not getting notified of comments. These sorts of problems tempt me to consider a static blog although I’m sure that would bring its own set of problems.
Afterword
Just before publishing this, I checked the “Entries feed” item on the blog menu and it does appear to be correct. Now I’m even more confused.