The Add a few feeds command in the Tools menu, and the one that happens automatically when a new user is onboarded (same code of course) has been changed.#
Previously it would stop when it failed to subscribe to a feed.#
Now it continues. It logs the error to the JavaScript console, so if anyone asks about this (It says it was finished after subscribing to 37 of 84 feeds), ask them to look in the console to see if there are any errors.#
Why? It's a pain when there are 10 bad feeds in a list of 400 scattered randomly through the list.#
And you're not always able to edit the list, so there's that problem too.#
Last update: Friday January 13, 2023; 9:35 AM EST.
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