I’ve noticed that when a feed stops updating, it can be over a month before Newsblur will display an exclamation point showing that the feed has gone bad. For example, yesterday, one of my feeds showed the error indicator, and when I checked it, NewsBlur reported that it hadn’t had a successful fetch since October.
I follow a lot of blogs on Tumblr using NewsBlur, and this happens semi-frequently because blogs can change their URLs (and thus, RSS URLs) at will. It’s usually much easier to find the new URLs if I notice the changes sooner. Is there a way to set NewsBlur to display the “broken feed” warning sooner, or easily identify which feeds have encountered recent errors?
I’ve gone both ways on this. I used to show you immediately, but then continue fetching and hoping that the blog will fix itself. It often does. I switched to a mode where it has to fail 10 times in a row before I let you know. It’s possible that this broke. Can you reply with the newsblur.com site url when you open the feed? That way I can check it’s statistics and figure out why it took so long to switch to broken.
The way it works is that it checks if there have been any successes, and if not, then it switches to error. I can change that logic to instead look for a certain number of errors in a row.