---
title: "Blogroll funk"
date: 2003-06-29
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Blogroll funk

One thing that is definitely [“funky”](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306094836/http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/14#a227) is the blogroll in Radio Userland. I updated my blogroll.opml file last night but – no matter what trickery I do – the changes won’t publish. That is why my external links look a bit odd right now.

[John Robb recently announced](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306094836/http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$25718#25724) that Radio will soon release a new version, which is exciting news for us Radio fans. I look forward to the new features. But I also hope they address the little things, like the continuing blogroll funkiness.

Radio is a wonderful product and I like playing around with it. But there are some kinks in the publishing process which need to be ironed out, pleeeease 🙂

postscript: ha ha, typically as soon as I published this I discovered how to force my blogroll to publish. In my browser, I browsed to the location of my blogroll: [http://radio.weblogs.com/0105304/gems/blogroll.opml](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306094836/http://radio.weblogs.com/0105304/gems/blogroll.opml). I noticed it was still displaying the old version of my blogroll. Hmmm, so I refreshed the browser and it updated to the new version. I thought well maybe that will finally update my weblog. Nothing else had worked and I had tried everything – including deleting the blogroll.opml file from my gems folder and its reference from my homepage template, clicking ‘Radio –> Publish –> Entire Website’, adding the opml file back in, re-publishing, etc.

So anyway after refreshing the blogroll.opml page *in my browser*, I re-published this post and – lo and behold – my blogroll had finally updated on my homepage. Praise be. I can go and enjoy my Sunday now 🙂

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/06/29.html#a71))*