Blog can't be added

Hello,

Has anyone an idea, why this blog can’t be added to my feeds?
http://mollythewally.blogspot.de/

I tried
http://mollythewally.blogspot.com/fee…
http://mollythewally.blogspot.com/fee…

There was no problem with this feed with the google reader. I’m new at NewsBlur.

Thanks!

Best regards
Katrin

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It’s not a feed I’d subscribe to :), but I tried it myself and have the same problem in Newsblur. I see a “Fix a misbehaving site” dialog with four options… interesting to see a timeout on accessing the feed… is Newsblur intolerant of slow responses?

I can, however, add it to RSSOwl, so there *does* seem to be something going on here with Newsblur that could be fixed.

I’ve had one “misbehaving” site too and it’s an important one to me so I just tried RSSOwl and it also added no problem. I like Newsblur and would dearly love to support it but at the same time my own website requires that I get feeds promptly also and unfortunately Newblur just isn’t working as it should. For now, I’m using 3 different readers to be sure nothing gets missed. Thanks 3dbloke, your tips and help are appreciated :slight_smile:

@3dbloke and Chris: Thanks for trying! I hope that NewsBlur will fix such problems. It is no problem for me if a feed is shown one day later, but it should not be missed…

I’m always trying to improve feed fetching, but this one simply consumes too much CPU and takes too long. If they lower their article counts then NewsBlur will have a much easier time parsing the feed. On average, a feed takes 1.5s to fetch and parse. In this case, it’s taking over 20s.

Thank you for the explanation!

ok, maybe you can make a clear statement about this kind of site issue instead showing “Timeout”,
and maybe make some workaround that impose a longer update interval for blogspot,

it’s really hard for reader to make any blogger tweaking their setting,
and I do think this is very common issue for every blogspot because that’s the default,

and there is more,
even if I impose max-result=1
http://shouhei-blog.blogspot.com/feed…

it still gets timeout due to it’s content.

after some reading about how blogspot feeds work

https://support.google.com/blogger/an…
https://developers.google.com/gdata/d…

ya, it support query, but no, it only support partial of those queries,
one of the query it doesn’t support is fields, so I can’t filter out post body,

it’s really tricky to tell every blogspot blogger have that kind of issue to change their setting not to post full body,
and I don’t really wanna do another yahoo pipes workaround :frowning:

arr, just found a shortcut,
http://www.consumingexperience.com/20…

http://shouhei-blog.blogspot.com/feed…

maybe you can make blogspot a special rule to try this URL as alternative

Ah, is this the same problem as with Matt Ridley’s “The Rational Optimist” blog? http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog-… apparently has something like 400 full text posts in it, and takes me 4 seconds just to download straight. I don’t know how long it takes for you to parse it.