[recuter]

I've had that happen countless times with different feeds, it is very rarely on purpose because as you say it leaves a bad taste.

For now, I'd chuck it up to a one-off snafu.

[charlieok]

Yeah, that's merely an annoying thing that seems to crop up occasionally with RSS.

My main frustration here is not finding a menu of feed options; instead, I just see one big site-wide feed.

I've had this frustration with many sites, and it's kept me from following things I otherwise would have followed. I'm just much more mystified when the entire aim of the site is “web design, by web designers, for web designers”.