Issues with the (old) feed for Chronically Vintage (please read)

While I’m absolutely thrilled that Chronically Vintage now has its own independent domain (url) name, I’m afraid that what I had initially said in my post on the topic on Thursday, isn’t 100% accurate. Due to a known Blogger bug, existing subscribers of this blog’s feed (what I mean is by “existing subscribers” is those people who had subscribed when the url here was a Blogspot one) have ceased to receive the feeds of those articles that have been published since Chronically Vintage switched from a Blogger url to its own independent domain name (www.chronicallyvintage.com).


{It definitely looks like Blogger has got its wires crossed when it comes to providing ongoing feed support for those who port their Blogger blogs to their own domain names. Beautiful photo via Ekler’s Flickr stream.}

Though both my husband (the tech expert at our casa) and I are rushing around the web looking for a fix to this feed issue, I have the sinking feeling that it will take Blogger’s intervention via a universal fix to remedy this problem.

As such – and I truly apologize for even asking this – if you were an existing feed subscriber, I would be so grateful if you could please subscribe again to this site’s feed. When you do so you will receive a backlog of old feeds in your reader (so apparently it has no problem doing that, oddly enough) and will of course receive all of the feeds for new posts as they appear.

As well, even if it’s not my fault, I feel like I should apologize to those who are clicking through on the old domain and being meet with a message that informs you that the url has changed and in turn asks if you want to be redirected. This too is a Blogger bug, which I’ve found an article from just two days ago about here.

The good news though is that switching from a Blogger domain name to my own URL has not affected any of the content on this site, so you can visit or revisit older posts any time.

Again, I’m sincerely sorry about this problem. I believed in good faith that (logically!) Blogger would carry on providing my subscribers with the same feed as it always has because I’m still using Blogger platform. It’s a shame this isn’t the case though. If you have any questions about this matter, please don’t hesitate to ask them in the comment section or you can contact me via the email address in the side bar.

Thank you so much everyone for your understanding and for re-subscribing to this site’s feed. I appreciate it greatly!

Chronically Vintage now has its own domain!

While many people profess to dislike them, I’ve always been a fan of surprises – well at lease those of a positive nature. The routine and/or ongoing chaos of daily life can often result in a need for all the positive, unexpected moments the universe can throw at you.


{Who doesn’t adore a beautiful surprise from time-to-time? Image via myvintagelove’s Flickr stream.}

One such a delightful moment came my way in the very early hours of Wednesday morning when my husband surprised me by registering the domain name www.chronicallyvintage.com! We’d talked about doing so before, but I had no idea he was going to spring a domain of its own for this blog on me out of the blue.

I love Blogger and am definitely going to stick with their platform for the foreseeable future, but it’s absolutely fantastic to now know that we own the domain chronicallyvintage.com! My little corner of the vintage blogsphere now has its own, genuine, certified url!

The old Blogger url (http://chronciallyvintage.blogspot.com) still works and should you type it in/click a link with that url, you’ll be redirected to the exact same blog that’s been here from day one. The only difference will be the url in your browser bar, which will now say www.chronicallyvintage.com.

Darling husband has assured me (he’s the tech expert in this house) that the feed for this site will continue to work just as it always has, and that there shouldn’t be any problems when with either the old Blogger or new “independent” url. (Phew! I wouldn’t want my super lovely readers to risk missing out on any of the vintage goodness that goes on here!).

I’m so happy about having my own domain for Chronically Vintage, and must thank my wonderful husband from the bottom of my heart for sensing how important this blog is to me. You’re the best, my love, thank you for the fantastic surprise!