Reddit not appearing in story view - Not a mixed content issue

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#1

All my reddit feeds are failing to display in story view. I’ve enabled mixed content, so that’s not the issue. I’ve reproduced on Firefox/Ubuntu 13.10 and Chrome/Mac 10.8/Win 7

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#2

What’s the newsblur.com site url when you open the feed?

#3

https://newsblur.com/site/438686/you-…
Is the one for an individual subreddit, and
https://newsblur.com/folder/reddit
is the one for my reddit folder. Neither one will display items from reddit.com

#4

Any status on this? I’m still not able to view Reddit feeds in story mode.

#5

I’m on vacation until next week. My advice is to ping this thread next Monday or Tuesday when I get back.

#6

Bumping per request. Issue is still occurring across all browsers/platforms.

I am being prompted re:mixed content by the browser upon opening any particular story in story view, but after allowing it, the story still does not appear.

#7

I’ve found the problem. Tested in IE9, got a warning that Reddit is not allowing their site to be displayed in frames. Thus, this is not a newsblur issue, it is a reddit issue. If you can find a way to bypass this restriction, that would be awesome, but I doubt it is possible. I will see if I can follow up with reddit.

#8

Reddit has disabled framing globally and does not plan to restore it. They recommend using CORS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-or…). I don’t know if this is something that can be implemented in Newsblur, or where to find the information needed to do so.

Thanks for your help Samuel.

#9

Just wanted to bump this, as I like to consume reddit through newsblur. If CORS could be implemented I would appreciate it greatly.

#10

They would need to enable CORS, not me. If they enabled CORS headers, then I could embed them.

#11

They have, http://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/com…

#12

Oh, that’s an API, not the Story view. They are specifically disabling embedding of Reddit. You would need a browser extension to override it, but it’s not something you could expect of an rss reader. The Original view continues to work because it’s a proxy, but it’s very expensive to keep (and couldn’t be done on a per-story basis for that reason), and possibly against their terms of use. If they were to ask to remove the view, I would comply as I have with a few other publishers. This is effectively what they’ve done with the Story view.

#13

Well that sucks. I liked using reddit through Newsblur. It’s not as good in feed view.

Thanks for your help Samuel.