Adding a new feed

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#1

I just signed up on Newsblur and imported and OPML with my feeds from a previous reader. I am encountering two problems though:

  1. No stories are shown on my existing feeds, so newsblur is not uploading stories from before this afternoon
  2. I have tried to add new feeds but once I click “add” the button becomes “adding” and a blue ball shows going up and down. Its been like 10 minutes and I still see the blue ball and the feed hasn’t been added.
    I would appreciate input on these issues, given that it is frustrated after a recent made payment for this service.
    Thanks
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#2

That’s very weird. Do you have Adblock installed? It’s known to mess with things. That bouncing ball should terminate after 10 seconds if a feed can’t be found. Try reloading the page and adding a feed. It should tell you if it works. The only reason it wouldn’t go through is if some browser extension is messing with it.

#3

Now it is working, thanks, just needed to reload the page.
What is not working, even after the reload, are the feeds that I added from my OPML. It says URL is broken? But how can that be when all the URLs still work in feedly?
Thanks

#4

Usually if a feed doesn’t work on NewsBlur it doesn’t work on the RSS validator. Do you have any examples? Send them through http://validator.w3.org/feed/ and see what happens.

#5

I did and I just noticed that Newblur didn’t copy correctly the XML links of my saved OPML. I just can’t afford the time to go one by one and find the correct XML link from the original webpage and fix one by one. Any chance I can quickly fix this? If not, I would like to return my purchase of Newsblur and stay on my previous feed that currently has all of my feeds and they are working.

#6

How about some examples of broken feed urls?

#7

http://en.mercopress.com%E2%80%94rss%…

http://www.elpais.com%E2%80%94feed.ht…

http://feeds.bbci.co.uk%E2%80%94rss.x…

http://feeds.elespectador.com%E2%80%9…

http://www.elsalvador.com%E2%80%94els…

#8

Where did you export these feeds from? Whatever created your OPML has issues.

#9

From feedly.com using a Mac computer. However, when I open the OPML in the computer the XML links that appear look fine, without the “%” and number additions.

#10

I just went over the OPML again and the links are fine. The only solution seems to copy them one by one. I have another OPML I want to add but it is illogical to do so if the problem persists. Please let me know if there is another solution.

#11

I have a print screen of my OPML for you to see but this webpage doesn’t let me upload the image. I can send you the print screen to an email if that helps.