Reddit: personalized rss feed is being overridden with general reddit popular feed

Ive been using a personalized feed from reddit for a long time in newsblur. “front page” from https://www.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/

It started showing me only the general popular reddit feed and not the posts from the feed i actually added. The feed is public and no auth is needed.
I removed/readded but it still ignores the content from the actual feed address (i’ve checked it with other rss readers and the feed is working)

This may be related to Reddit feeds seem to ignore "/top" in the path and the query string of the feed URL …?

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Yep, same issue. I had to rewrite the reddit fetcher to get around API limits and this is unhandled so far. I’ll get to it soon!

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Fixed. Tokenized personal Reddit RSS feeds now fetch the original RSS URL instead of being rewritten through the general Reddit API listing.

Commit: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/commit/3f07cba71e3c046a3fbe0c9bce86cebf63c3d82b

thanks! how long after a commit does it become live ? (doesnt seem to be live yet for me)

Sorry, I deployed it to the web servers and not the backend feed fetchers. It’s now deployed.

still not working for me. i tried deleting/re-adding the feed, logging in via incognito mode.

What’s the url? Same one as above?

I use the first “private” rss link from this feed page “front page”. do you want me to post the personalized one that i actually use in newsblur ? (i’ve tried the “private” rss link in a local rss reader and it works fine without any auth or anything)

Feel free to DM it to me

no worries. I thought you were just checking if I was using a proper rss url

PS i am not seeing any DM/messages links anywhere. does that need to be enabled somewhere ?

this is strange. now I’m seeing a mix of my subreddits and popular.

this might be cached, I was sorting by oldest. The newest threads seem to be just mine. I think this was actually fixed. sorry for the confusion.

I’ll take a closer look tomorrow to be sure. thx