All the automatic update for my feeds fails while manual parse works

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This is really weird. It has been like this for several weeks.

Example feed NewsBlur

All the automatic update fails with Timeout (505), while manually hitting “Parse this RSS/XML Feed” works. I don’t think there is any problem with the feed itself, I self-host the feed myself, and I can visit the feed with my browser.

I don’t know if it is related, but my feeds are not on standard https port 443.

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Seems someone else is having the exact same problem. I think it is a wide issue not only affecting myself.

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I have the same problem but only for the feeds that are via a self hosted Full-Text RSS (FiveFilters) conversion to full text. Other feeds worked fine.

I went through all of them yesterday to re-enable them by hitting Parse this RSS/XML Feed, this morning a couple were again in this state.

I had not encountered this issue until now. It started a couple of weeks ago I think. It took me some time to realise I had fewer posts to read!

In case it makes any difference I use NetNewsWire to read my Newsblur feeds.

I see the original post in this thread is one year old, does that mean the cause of the problem has not been identified and so this problem may keep occuring?

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I wouldn’t assume that this is still happening. I often find individual issues in feeds and fix them throughout the year.

As for your feed, if you have the https://newsblur.com/site/<feed_id> url of the feed, it helps in identifying exactly what’s going on.

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It’s still happening. I’ve just insta fetched many sites that were again not automatically updating.

This issue is negating the usefulness of Newsblur to me as it means i have to currently check my feeds in the Newsblur website and manually fetch them again. Noticing an absence is difficult which means i can’t rely on Newsblur working anymore.

Nothing has changed with these feeds on my side so it very much feels as this must be caused by a change in the Newsblur side that happened a few weeks ago. Newsblur was very reliable for me before and i never encountered this issue over the many years i used Newsblur.

As for some feed ids i’d prefer to share them privately. Shall i email you?

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Yep, email the newsblur.com url for those feeds so I can see why they aren’t being fetched as often as you expect.

By the way, you can right-click on a feed and open Statistics to see how often they should be fetched compared to how often they are being fetched.

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