News Capsules are not working

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   marisuewritesposted 15 years ago

   on my hubs, I've noticed news capsules are down...no news, and sometimes the key word part is gone...

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      guidebabaposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Correct. And TRAFFIC from yahoo has decreased. Yahoo News Capsule has direct relationship with traffic from Yahoo here at Hubpages.

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         moonbunposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         I wondered why my Yahoo traffic had dropped so much, now I know.
         
         No news feeds working here either.

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   Jerilee Weiposted 15 years ago

   Noticing the same thing here too.

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   Bard of Elyposted 15 years ago

   It's probably something to do with the ongoing PING problem!

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      rmshdcposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I had this PING problem while posting reply in the forum thread.

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   marisuewritesposted 15 years ago

   Does that mean Hub Pages is working on it?  )

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   earnestshubposted 15 years ago

   I have noticed the same thing at times. For me it is usually when my bandwidth is low.

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   willpower123posted 15 years ago

   I don't think so...plz try again

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   marisuewritesposted 15 years ago

   still no success with news capsules....hmmm why??

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   premsinghposted 15 years ago

   News capsule uses title of hub by default as a phrase to search news items related to your hub. Try to use key word. If problem persists, try to use related (other) key words.

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   Jerilee Weiposted 15 years ago

   Still not working here since yesterday, regardless of words used.

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    Aya Katzposted 15 years ago

    Did we ever hear from management what the problem was that all of us were grappling with yesterday on Hubtivity?

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    Bard of Elyposted 15 years ago

    I haven't heard anything and was wondering if it's because it's the weekend and we will get an answer tomorrow! I hope this doesn't go PING! lol

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    carpesomediemposted 15 years ago

    I've been having issues with this on most of my new hubs today.  Sometimes the news links show up, most of the time they don't.

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    bgpappaposted 15 years ago

    News Fees Are Still Not Working On My Hubs.

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    Jerilee Weiposted 15 years ago

    Same here, going on fourth day.

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    pauldeedsposted 15 years ago

    We're been working on the issue.  The problem is that yahoo has is intermittently blocking us from fetching their news rss feeds.  Since we link to yahoo in every news capsules and provide them with traffic,  I can't really fathom why they'd do this.   Anyway, we should have a fix pretty soon.
    
    I haven't researched it specifically, but I'm skeptical that there is a significant correlation between having a yahoo news feed and getting yahoo search traffic.

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    Jerilee Weiposted 15 years ago

    I don't know about scientific, but I keep an excel spreadsheet on my hubs and there is a difference in traffic between ones with news capsules and ones without, not a lot, but enough to notice.

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    moonbunposted 15 years ago

    Any news on when this is going to be fixed?

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    bgpappaposted 15 years ago

    still down

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    marisuewritesposted 15 years ago

    Can anyone give us news about the news capsules not working and when they will?   Thanks!!! Marisue

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       moonbunposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I totally agree, any news on when the news capsule will be working again?

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