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en-us<![CDATA[Open RSS]]>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss<![CDATA[Open RSS Changelog]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:52:00 GMT<![CDATA[07-21-2026]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:52:00 GMT

Added feeds for YouTube video comments

Published a blog post for Reddit to go easy on their feeds

Improved automatic feed detection so that feeds can be generated on many more websites without users having to request them

Reorganized the Account Settings experience, added the ability to change your donation email, and added token viewing with regeneration

Improved feed refreshing to look back at older content to accumulate more items

Stripped tracking links in The Verge feeds that were being added by their site

Fixed Reuters feeds after their site started blocking them, and we're keeping a close eye on them

Fixed missing content in the Wizards News feed

Started tracking Amazon CloudFront websites blocking feed generation

Resolved some issues, including Thunderbird users are unable to use Open RSS feeds, issues in the Twine app, feeds being unstable when used in the Folo application, feeds in Feedbin being slow to update, users being unable to subscribe to feeds in CapyReader

Added new context around Reddit's rate limits

Fixed JustWatch public lists feeds and added support for more locales

Cleaned up the headings across the feed pages, improved the heading hierarchy, and fixed the table of contents

Rewrote the why is Open RSS scraping my website guide, improving its tone, intuitiveness, and making it an easier read overall

Added an update explaining the status of Cloudflare website blocks after enrolling in Cloudflare's Verified Bots program

Added messaging on preview feeds and an icon in the UI to communicate why a feed has temporarily stopped receiving updates

Improved the donation form for Apple Pay and wallet users, and fixed the mobile navigation for logged-in visitors

Improved abuse protection to prevent malicious users and bots from negatively affecting the service for others

Added support so feed readers can save bandwidth by not re-downloading feeds that haven't changed

Fixed botched content summaries being shown in some feeds

Fixed some feed items not being added to feeds due to bad links

Added the Gobbler to the apps page

Fixed hit state of anchor links on guide and blog headings, to prevent accidentally clicking on them

Fixed the Washington Examiner feed after their site changes, and fixed an issue where some articles weren't appearing in the homepage and section feeds

Fixed the Business Insider feed after their site changes, and removed the unrelated gunk from the feed's content

Corrected item dates on the Lightning Dev Kit blog feed after their site changes

Fixed many more broken feeds due to their site changes, Threads, Reddit users, YouTube Music playlists, Substack feeds, Spotify shows, GitHub issues, Hacker News users, LinkedIn jobs, GitLab commits, HackMD release notes, The Infatuation, Bewusst.tv, Politico, The Canadian Press, Amazon videos, Big Brother Watch blog, OpenAI, Meetup, Investors' Chronicle, AJC, Fox News people, New Yorker contributors, ABC News authors, SI authors, Drafthouse NYC, NDE Archive, OFAJ Mercados, What's new in Microsoft .NET Framework, and Elixir Gallery

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Renamed the Issues section to Our Work to include tracking of roadmap items like the new Feed reader and other high-level features being worked on, including Grouped feeds, Feed digests, and Filtered feeds for more transparency

Added Critical Threats feeds

Added support for Patreon's new Creator Website feeds and fixed existing feed issues

Improved auto-generating a feed for pages that don't have a feed link

Removed tracking iframes that some websites were injecting onto their web pages that were showing up in feeds

Added Cloudflare (with bot-blocking completely disabled) for faster feeds and a more responsive site, especially during traffic spikes, and updated the Privacy Policy accordingly

Improved messaging when a feed is blocked, now showing the option to prioritize getting it resolved

Fixed issues with YouTube playlist feeds and Shorts feeds, and improved Shorts-exclusion logic

Fixed Substack feed items that include newsletters

Fixed JustWatch feeds not returning items due to their website changes

Fixed AllSides feeds due to a different website structure

Fixed Morning Brew feeds due to a different website structure

Fixed Odysee feeds per updated site format

Fixed Eventbrite feeds

Fixed The College Fix feeds

Fixed NRK Radio feeds and added support for locale-aware dates

Fixed PocketCasts feeds

Fixed The Cooking Guy recipes feed

Fixed Daylight Computer feed

Fixed Superlist feed

Fixed Google News feeds

Fixed Videocardz feeds due to their website changes

Fixed Save the Post Office feeds

Fixed Safebooru feeds

Fixed Spark feeds

Fixed an issue where some Lemmy feeds weren't working due to unexpected domain structure

Contacted Feedly about issue 235 and addressed abuse protection issue causing some feeds to not work in Feedly

Updated openfeeds.org domain to redirect to openrss.org

Added Q1 2026 meeting notes and published 2025 financials

Published why websites are blocking your feed reader

Fixed some Medium feeds not working due to their site updates

Enhanced security and abuse restrictions for bots and automation not adhering to the guidelines, which has improved the speed and reliability of the service

Updated so that all twitch.com feeds are redirected to twitch.tv

Added YouTube Playlist feeds section and improved messaging

Fixed an issue with security certificate renewal

Published blog article for YouTube's broken feeds

Fixed issue where forgot login page would time out

Fixed width of subscriber bar when viewing feed preview pages on super small mobile screens

Added support for all Mastodon feeds, making feeds for any current or future instance immediately available without users having to request them

Hardened our abuse protection to prevent bots from making excessive requests that violate our Terms of Use and don't adhere to guidelines, which has preserved more server resources for legitimate users and greatly improved the speed and responsiveness of feeds

Added page for Patreon creator feeds

Published new Feedly issue 235 due to inadvertent requests being made when users type feeds into the application and resolved issue 207

Updated issue 201 to reflect that Orbitbreaker feed reader is offline

Added new Raremarq feed

Fixed JustWatch feeds for provider landing pages

Clarified application IP requirements and improved the "How to get verified" section in the Verified readers guide

Fixed Apple Developer Swift blog feed which is now being redirected to its new location on swift.org/blog

Improved algorithm for statuses on Apps page to reflect more accurate information sooner

Updated Bylaws to reflect decision made in the last Board meeting to change meetings from quarterly to annually; minutes from this meeting will be published soon.

Fixed Open AI feed

Added support for Substack Notes feeds on custom subdomains

Fixed YouTube playlist list feeds missing the correct entry link

Added feed support for any Discourse forum

Added better handling when feed items have no description

Fixed ABC.net Listen feeds

Fixed Python version release feeds

Fixed missing long form content items in Aljazeera feeds

Fixed Anthropic News feed not updating due to their website

Corrected the rel links in all Atom-based feeds

Resolved NetNewsWire's excessive request issue 54

Fixed issue where posts with no article were missing from Hacker News feeds

Fixed The Verge feeds

Fully redesigned the feed previews pages seen when navigating to any feed in any browser

Added more improvements to make feeds faster and update much quicker

Added ability to view and subscribe to feeds for blog articles, changelogs, and issues directly from their pages when viewing them in your web browser

Fixed an issue where the Apps page was showing outdated content

Fixed YouTube feeds due to their website changes

Fixed issue where Reddit feeds were taking longer than usual to populate and fixed some incorrect links in content

Fixed Medium feeds caused by their site changes

Fixed Webtoons feeds after their latest changes

Added ability to filter through Apps

Fixed Metrograph NYC feed after their site changed

Resolved Vienna RSS reader issue 21

Resolved The Old Reader issue 186

Fixed issue with pages after logging out

Added a helpful note when accessing the Patreon feed of a user who's currently under their review and fixed feed location issue due to a recent update to Patreon's website

Fixed a rare issue where a feed would intermittently timeout

Updated location of the Daylight Blog feed to reflect the latest change made on their website

Fixed date issue causing some missing items in Pro Wresting Tees feeds

Fixed issue in APNews feeds from their site change that caused some Project items to be missing

Fixed Allsides feed not populating due to their site changing from what appears to be new usage of Cloudflare

Fixed issues in Mobilism.org forum feeds where some images weren't showing up correctly

Fixed display of the total feed number on the homepage when viewing it on a wide screen

Fixed an issue causing some incorrect links in Privacy Guides forum feeds

Fixed Sherwood Snacks newsletter feed due to website changes

Resolved NewsBlur issue 194

Fixed small content issue in Indeed Jobs feed

Added support for video content in ABC.net.au News feeds

Fixed links in Python release feed

Marked RSS Owl app as inactive since it is no longer maintained

Fixed links in The Inquirer feeds

Fixed some incorrect links in USATODAY homepage feed content

Fixed some links in the VSCode releases feed and added missing image and description

Fixed issue with DailyWire feed due to their website changes

Improved performance of feeds in verified feed readers, which now get faster updates and are excluded from strict rate limits

Fixed incorrect dates in Brookings.edu People feeds

Removed tracking parameters from links in Huffingpost feeds

Added Yahoo JP images and video search feeds

Improved messaging in Terms to clarify usage of Open RSS feeds for commercial purposes

Fixed Beehiiv feeds for some pages on sites with a slightly different structure

Updated Inoreader's issue 141 regarding its in-app messaging

Added guide to explain verified feed readers and apps

Enabled rate-limiting for excessive requests from feed readers and apps that are not verified, which has made the service faster and much more reliable for users

Improved speed of feeds when navigating to them in a web browser

Fixed Trustpilot feeds due to their website updates and added a Trustpilot feeds page

Fixed Reuters section feeds

Updated status columns from icons to nibs on the Apps page

Added verified icon to verified feed readers on the Apps page

Fixed scroll jank upon initial load of a guide page

Fixed Aljazeera home page feed due to their website changes

Fixed links in JSON LD article data on Guides pages

Added more apps to the Apps page