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Adam Curry's site ipodder.org got Slashdotted yesterday. Ipodder is hosted on Radio Userland's community server and guess what, the servers didn't even blink.

For more on what happened check out today's daily source code.

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Jason Kottke reports that Firefox is having trouble with his RSS feed; and since he patterned his feed after mine, he checked it out and that's not working either. Can anyone who's using Firefox shed light on why this is happening?

Believe it or not, I think I can. Tthe problem is that Firefox (and Thunderbird) require a title element before they will display the post. This is not in tune with the rss spec, but I believe that's the problem. I have tried several feeds and the only ones that work are the ones that have title elements.

Here's a quote from Eric Meyer, definitely something to keep in mind if you develop software.

All packages suck in some way, and each one sucks in unique ways.

Once you come to accept this fact you will feel much better about the products you develop. No one piece of software can be everything to everyone. This is a very liberating realization, once achieved you can get back to the business of developing your software. As opposed to trying to keep your user base happy with news features that 9 out 10 of them don't want, marching down the path to feature bloat as a result.

This is also one of the major reasons I like Open Source software so much (Open, not Free there is a difference). Eventually you will want a new feature or find a bug so irritating it must be fixed.

If you have the source you can fix it yourself.

You can even send my fix to the company that released the product, thus improving it for everyone. But even if the company doesn't release your fix, you still have the software behaving how you want it to.