Planet.grep.be and broken blogs

Occasionally, some blogs that are aggregated on Planet Grep break. The server may break down, or the blogger may have changed blogging software, or the domain may expire, or any of a number of things may happen that would result in the blog not working anymore.

Since planet sends data to stderr when it receives a 404 or 5xx-style status from a webserver (or when it does not receive a reply at all), and since it's called from cron every thirty minutes, I usually disable blogs that break down like this. As a result, they will not be automatically re-added to Planet Grep when the problem is solved.

This is just so that my mailbox doesn't overflow, and when the issues are fixed, I will be happy to re-add blogs that were previously broken to Planet Grep. If you used to be on Planet Grep, but you are not anymore right now, chances are high that your blog was broken at some point in time and I disabled it. When the issue is fixed, just send me an email (wouter@grep.be), and I'll put it back. I just re-enabled all blogs that were still disabled for some reason; so everyone should be happy for now. Unless I made a mistake somewhere. Do let me know if I did

Occasionally, I've been thinking of a way to add hackergochi's to Planet Grep after all. Stay tuned.