I’m not really sure how best to describe this, but I’m going back to look over some of the stories that I saved weeks and months ago. Looking at them in story view or trying to load them outside the browser is returning invalid feed request, but the story still exists.
I should add that this isn’t only for hackaday links, it’s happened for my Allure Media feeds as well (lifehacker, gizmodo etc) AND it’s not necessarily just age based, as this loaded fine.
But somehow that percent sign itself got encoded into %25, and so we end up with that URL. If you turn the %25 back into just a % (in both places), the URL works just fine.
There you go, fixed. Unfortunately, it was a gruesome fix, since the invalid URLs were stored in the database. But I just ran through them and fixed them for you (as well as every other user).