If You Can’t Access My Main Site

…it’s because your IP address is being blocked, for some mysterious reason. I’m talking about the WordPress site I moved Bonny Glen to last March. During the past week, I’ve heard from several readers that they are suddenly unable to load that site. (Anything at melissawiley.com, including melissawiley.com/blog, where the blog is.)

If you, too, are unable to load that site, please let me know. I can send your IP address to my web person and have you unblocked. (You can look up your IP address at http://whatismyip.com.)

In the meantime, I have started double-posting new posts both here (at Typepad) and there (at WordPress). Most of the comments discussion is still occurring over there, and that’s where I would like it to be, so if you can access that site, please do click through and join the conversation there. (If you can’t load the page, of course you are welcome to continue commenting here!)

This site you’re reading now, melissawiley.typepad.com, is missing my past six months’ worth of posts—everything I’ve written since March, 2008, when I transferred the blog to WordPress. As I said, I’ve just begun double-posting new material here now (as of mid-August) as a backup for people having trouble with the WordPress site. I hate to confuse people by maintaining two identical (or nearly identical) blogs, but for now I think it’s the best plan.

And before I go, just out of curiosity, I’d love to hear how you happened to find this post! Are you still subscribed to my old feed (Typepad) and it popped up in your reader? Or do you still visit this site from time to time?

Thanks for the input!

14 thoughts on “If You Can’t Access My Main Site”

  1. To answer your final question?
    I”m subscribed via bloglines. Bloglines had automatically switched over to your new site, and listed the subscription in my feed list as Melissa Wiley. But now that you’re posting here it has yanked that name and started listing you as Here in the Bonny Glen again. It seems to prefer this feed when given a choice.
    I think I”ll manually change the subscription over to your new site.

  2. I’m subscribed via Google Reader. The same subscription seems to work for both sites. I guess. I never thought about it. I just always kept getting your feed. 🙂
    I can access both sites.

  3. I got this post via Google Reader. I never changed my subscription because it picked up the posts on the new blog too. I never really noticed a jump until you started double posting and old posts I’d already read began showing up again as unread.
    I guess I’ll update my subscription so that when I click through to leave a comment I’ll be doing so where the real action is. 🙂

  4. Curiouser and curiouser.
    The reposting of old posts on Bloglines/GR should only have been three posts–the one from six months ago where the new site was announced, and then two from last week. After that I thought I got it fixed so that that feed (my Feedburner feed) is only posting the WordPress blog posts again.
    Is that what y’all have seen? Or are you seeing more old-post-reposting than that?
    My main feed, the one that gets its updates when I post to the WordPress blog, is the Feedburner feed. (feeds.feedburner.com/bonnyglen). When I shifted to the new blog, I reconfigured that feed so that it picked up its content from the new site, not this one. (And likewise, clicking through from a post in your reader should take you to the new site.)
    The other day I accidentally reconnected that feed to this blog for a few minutes, and that’s why it suddenly reposted those old posts.
    But now it should be back to normal, i.e. connected only to the WordPress site.
    THIS blog, here at Typepad, has no Feedburner feed now (in theory) but DOES have an atom feed and an RSS feed. If you used to be subbed to one of those feeds, long ago, you’ll be seeing anything I post here pop back up in your reader now. That’s what you’re describing, Alicia. I was surprised to realize yesterday that the Atom feed for this site still has some 200 subscribers.
    Gail, does your Bloglines feed still say Here in the Bonny Glen? The Feedburner feed (WordPress site) drew its name from the site’s home page and that’s why “Melissa Wiley” began popping up in the readers after I moved over to WP.
    Christine, are you seeing posts from both this site and the WP on on the same reader?? That’s the most perplexing part of all! LOL. Apart from those three stray posts I mentioned above, the Feedburner feed shouldn’t have any more connection to this site. (I’m wondering if some of you are, like Alicia, still subbed to the Atom feed for this site, so you’ve now got two subscriptions popping up new posts from me in your reader. One would be named Melissa Wiley (Feedburner feed, new blog) and one would be named Here in the Bonny Glen (Atom feed, old blog).
    This comment must be excrutiatingly boring to everyone but me. LOL!

  5. Oh!! And to further confuse things, if you click the “subscribe to my feed” link up there in the left sidebar, you’re actually subbing to the OTHER blog, the WordPress one!! When I stopped posting here I wanted to make sure new readers who found me through an old link subbed to the active blog, not the inactive one. Which is, of course, no longer inactive now that I’m mirror-posting.

  6. Weird. I am subscribed thru bloglines. I never changed my sub because somehow it changed automatically to your new feed (as you said it would), and when I clicked over it was to the new site (the homepage, not the blog). Today, however, when I clicked over it took me here. Bizarre.
    As far as old/double posts, I’ve only seen the three you mentioned. Yesterday I think. I was wondering why they popped up again.
    So…should I re-sub or will it automatically go back to your new feed again?

  7. Melissa-
    I am still subscribed to this blog via Bloglines. I’m also subscribed to your wordpress blog via Bloglines. However I just noticed that your WordPress blog was missing from my “feeds” list. I just resubscribed and have no problem getting through to your blogs…so I’m scratching my head here wondering how I “lost” your feed. Just wondering about this technology drives me crazy…I think I am Ludite at heart!
    Coram Deo, Lola
    AKA Motherhen

  8. I’m subscribed via Net News Wire and the feed must have automatically updated as other said theres did through Bloglines. I subscribed when the blog was here but I kept getting posts when you moved to the new site. And the feed is still named Here in the Bonny Glen.

  9. Well this feed business just gets weirder by the hour.
    Lola, I am completely perplexed as to why you were suddenly unsubbed from the WordPress (feedburner) feed. As Tina Fey would say, blerg. I’m glad you realized & were able to resub, but I wonder how many other subscribers have been bumped off?
    And Theresa & anyone experiencing the weird thing with Bloglines where you click through on the WordPress feed and wind up here at Typepad, I’m stumped!!! It’s definitely the WordPress feed it’s happening with? If you go to the “Melissa Wiley” feed in Bloglines and click “edit subscription,” does it say the feed URL is feeds.feedburner.com/bonnyglen?
    If you’re still subbed to the atom or RSS feed from this Typepad site, you’re going to be seeing new posts in your Bloglines there, probably labeled “Here in the Bonny Glen” (not “Melissa Wiley”), and the feed URL would have typepad in it and end in atom or rss.
    Or maybe! If the post you happened to click through on was one of those three stray posts that re-pinged when I screwed up the feedburner feed for ten minutes, maybe THOSE posts are the ones bringing people here instead of to WordPress.
    You are all very sweet to oblige me with feedback (get it? ba dum bum) as I attempt to figure out what the heck is going on.

  10. Until this week when weird stuff started happening, when I clicked through I got your new site – but my feed still said “Here in the Bonny Glen.” – then with the re-posted posts this week when I clicked through I got this site. So I went to the other and officially subbed there. Now I have two – Melissa Wiley and Here in the Bonny Glen.

  11. I happened to have the bonny glen site still in my bloglines list, so I saw new posts here…but my entry for Melissa Wiley had disappeared, just whosh!
    I will hop over and give you my ip address. It’s all very weird..I don’t understand computer stuff!

  12. Melissa, I’m one of those unhappy readers who’ve been blocked from your new site. I was trying not to take it personally, LOL!
    : )
    Where should I send my ip address? It feels strange to leave it out here in the open.
    I found this post because when I started typing in “melissawiley.com” in Firefox, it came up with the suggestion of your old blog, so I thought, what the heck, let me see if I can find anything here that might help. And so I did. . .
    Thanks much,
    Christina in MA

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