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mjibson
Lost all of my subscriptions on goread.io
Yesterday I had my www.goread.io open, pressed 'r' to refresh the feeds and got a screen informing me I'm not subscribed to any feeds. This situation still remains. I lost all of my subscriptions! Also, in the top right, there is no information about my account. When I go to account details page though, I can see my payment is still active. I use a google integrated account.
You are the second person to report this. If it's the same as the first, the feeds are likely gone. You'll have to upload your OPML file again. If you don't have a copy of it, then all I can say is I'm sorry. I'm not sure why this is happening, but I'll try to build some protections in against it.
The way it's built, goread doesn't have to modify the OPML ever. It's all done in the JS, and which is then sent over as a JSON blob. My first idea would be that the browser encountered some bug or error, and is sending over an empty OPML blob, which goread happily reads and saves. Second idea is more complicated: the backend is reading a UserData struct which fails, but the error isn't caught, then it writes it back with empty data. I suspect that it's not actually this because the other user for whom this happened still had their settings saved, and this would also nuke those.
I'm getting the same (?) thing on a self-hosted version. Did a refresh and got the "you don't have any feeds". Just updated to c4ad316 with no change.
The request to /user/list-feeds returns this:
{"Opml":null,"Stories":{},"Icons":{},"Options":"{\"folderClose\":{\"Comics\":true,\"Entertainment\":true,\"Games\":true,\"Development\":false,\"Design\":true,\"Technology\":false},\"nav\":true,\"expanded\":false,\"mode\":\"unread\",\"sort\":\"newest\",\"hideEmpty\":true}"}
And I see this in the appengine logs:
u.Read too old, fixing: 2013-07-11 19:10:07.885674 +0000 UTC
new: 2013-07-11 19:13:50.778148497 +0000 UTC
fix read: 0 -> 0
Saved; __appstats__:059800:part: 650.00B, __appstats__:759810528:full: 14.87KB
@rng ah ha! I think your comment may have uncovered something. line 331 of user.go blindly sets ud.Opml (i.e., doesn't do an error check). This is perhaps the cause of the problem.
This is now deployed. Will wait a few days and see if anyone else reports.
Doesn't seem to fix it for me, and I don't get the error message on line 335. I added a check to the unmarshal code on line 177 and get this:
json uf unmashal err: unexpected end of JSON input, { []}
Is that relevant?
It won't restore your feeds - they're gone. You'll have to either import new ones or use the feed history feature if that fired recently - a backup will be there.
However, yes, that is exactly what I wanted to see. This was certainly the bug. It means uf is being generated incorrectly, and the json marshaller couldn't handle it, which is what was causing the feeds to disappear. Now to figure out why uf is wrong.
Hmm, but if I click admin->all feeds, I see my feeds there. Or is that something different?
Edit: oh, wait maybe I misunderstand - the admin list is all the feeds in the system, right? What I've lost is my specific list of feeds? So because my installation is single-user I can just download that list of feeds as opml and then reimport
Yes. Actually, you should have an admin menu with a "all feeds opml" option. That should download all your site's feeds as an opml that you can then upload.
Yep, got it, and feeds are back. Thanks! I'll post any new info if they disappear again.
Could one of you please email your OPML to [email protected]? I've worked around the bug but I'd like to find the cause. Thanks.