Links to articles on The Verge get mangled going to Chrome.
This is a recent problem on the Android mobile app. Wasn’t happening earlier. I don’t know if this is a problem with their embedded link or something Newsblur is doing. If I want to read more of an article, I tap on the article title to go to Chrome. At that point, Chrome spins until it eventually times out.
Same issues here. Viewing the feed directly and clicking the “Continue Reading” link doesn’t seem to be an issue. Perhaps this is a Newsblur issue and not a Verge feed issue?
As Josh points out, if you hit the header link or any body of the story link, it works no problem. Just avoid the “Continue Reading”
I see this issue on both full text and truncated feeds. Haven’t had much time to look at it but it looks like The Verge accidentally encodes the Continue Reading link twice, which most browsers seem to handle but NewsBlur (I’m guessing) ends up treating as a relative link, which gets prefixed with the RSS parent directory.
If you look at their raw RSS you can easily see the difference between a working link and the “Continue Reading” link that gets mangled:
BTW - I’m using Firefox on Windows and Safari on OS X. This isn’t Chrome-specific.