This change made the RSS feed in the item details page essentially unavailable to Open Data users, which was how they could get notified if they cared about changes I make to the items I share. Typically schema changes (URL, fields, etc.) or item ID changes will bust people's stuff, so I thought it would courteous, if not full on ITIL Service Operation adherent, to let them know ahead of time.
It would be nice for Esri to re-expose the RSS feed in the Open Data item presentation page. I guess I'm headed over to "ideas" to see what happens...
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