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Go easy on the feeds, Reddit

There's a particular kind of sigh you let out when a platform you once loved starts making the same moves you've watched a dozen other sites make right before they got worse. Well, Reddit just made one. On May 28th, a Reddit admin posted in the moderator news community, and tucked inside the cheerfully-titled "protecting communities from scrapers and platform abuse" ( archived ) was a line that…

YouTube, your feeds are broken

In case you haven't caught on yet, some of us will just never be interested in being manipulated by those brain-rotting, never-ending homepage feeds you love shoving in our faces the moment we log in. We would rather use the feeds you offer for each of your channels. You know, the ones you're hiding? The feeds we can subscribe to in our own feed reader to follow our favorite creators without…

Why websites are blocking your feed reader

After subscribing to a website in a feed reader, the reader needs to keep constantly checking the website for new content to show you. A feed reader app and a website with arrow lines in between them depicting feed content flowing back and forth with a timer icon But an increasing number of websites are either severely limiting feed reader apps or outright blocking them because they're checking…

Check when an Open RSS feed will have new content

The feature in this article is available exclusively to those donating $10 or more monthly. If you're well acquainted with Open RSS feeds, you may have noticed that, when a website publishes new content, there could be a delay before the feed shows the new content. Now, you can see when this delay starts and expires, so you'll know exactly how long it'll take for new content to appear in any feed.…

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

Many users prefer to use an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with the content on the websites they visit. But if you've enabled Cloudflare on your website, you're likely blocking these RSS users from accessing your website content without realizing it. The Cloudflare features that block RSS readers In Cloudflare's dashboard, you'll find tools designed to block bot traffic to your website.…