"Retry fetching" for a dead site closes the dialog instead of displaying an error

When I go to a red-marked-dead site and try “Retry fetching and parsing”, it stays a while and then the dialog closes, the site remaining red-marked-dead. Instead of this I would expect a message to be displayed in the dialog saying that the feed’s URL is finished and I should try something else (maybe the site’s changed the feed’s URL and I should go find it, etc.).

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Yeah, this whole dialog has gone through multiple revisions and could use another one. Unfortunately, it’s extremely difficult to get this right, because when I’m trying to fix a broken site, it sometimes has the habit of getting fixed and then I no longer can test it. And building test cases for complicated setups like this is near impossible. This will have to wait, unfortunately.