Changelog
Technical improvements, changes, and bugs that,
when resolved, need not be mentioned
😁
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- Added a ton of Mastodon feeds that have been requested -- whew! (you can use the search field on the homepage to check if the one you requested is now available)
- Added a new page on how to use Open RSS feeds
- Added a more immersive RSS Feed page that better educates the public on what RSS Feeds are and how to use them
- Added a fancy little animated navigation to the mobile version of the website, mainly to prepare us for adding more navigation items for all the cool content we've got coming out soon
- Redesigned the layout of the blog listing on the website
- Renamed "News" section to "Blog" and update all URL references to new
/blog
location
- Fixed parsing issue in Google Careers feeds due to their updated site changes
- Added requested All About The Tea feeds
- Removed unnecessary query parameters in Tumblr feed URL attempts
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- Fixed issue where PRs were appearing in GitHub issues feeds
- Improved error messaging around feed timeout errors
- Improved Twitter feeds to exclude age-restricted tweets because Twitter provides no data for them :(
- Switched to a new, bare-metal server that can better handle the large increase in feed requests and overall usage
- Added francelive.fr feeds
- Added nowhiteboard.org feeds which include job search listings and blog articles
- Improved error handling for cases in feeds where dates are invalid
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- Fixed cases where a duplicate item could appear in GitHub feeds
- Fixed issue where certain GitHub feeds were not being updated with new items
- Fixed feed generation issue when Tumblr user has no blog description set
- Removed redundant quoted tweet in tweet replies in Twitter feeds
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- Added more Mastodon feeds than we can count -- if you've been waiting for a particular feed to be supported, you can check using the search form on the homepage
- Announced Twitter feeds in new blog post
- Updated titles in Twitter feed to show when an item is a retweet
- Added disclaimer when a quoted tweet is no longer available in Twitter feeds
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- Fixed the super slow performance of all Mastodon feeds, which are much faster to respond now -- we've re-enabled all of them, so feeds from all supported instances should work now 🎉
- Exposed lower-level gateway errors to users directly in the feed for transparency, these feed items will be prefixed with
[Open RSS Feed Error]
- Fixed small issue where duplicate feed errors were showing in some feeds, which was the result of us releasing this error-in-feed functionality for the first time -- sorry about that!
- Added ability to communicate important information directly in feeds as well, these will be prefixed with
[Open RSS]
so you know it's us
- Fixed changelog heading links when in dark mode
- Optimized performance of Mastodon feeds
- Put clients in time out that are making too many of the same requests to a single feed in a short amount of time -- an error will show in this case until the number of requests is minimized
- Added an error if our server has to give up when the request to a feed is taking too long
- Added explicit and detailed error when a Twitter feed can't be generated because the user's profile has become private or otherwise inaccessible
- Improved Tumblr feeds to exclude the pesky ads
- Fixed issue with Mozilla Careers feed
- Added 503 status when feed is unavailable
- Added disclaimer for Mastodon replies of publicly inaccessible posts
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- Temporarily disabled unresponsive federated Mastodon feeds (mastodon.social, mastodon.world, and macaw.social) due to unresponsive APIs - our guess is that this is due to these instances just experiencing high traffic volumes, but we'll keep an eye on it
- Fixed Pocket Cast authorization issue that was preventing feed generation
- Fixed missing items in Aljazeera home page feed
- Added new Changelog page
- Added Tumblr feeds
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- Added syskb.com feeds
- Added dailyclout.io homepage feed with category support
- Fixed issue where HTML entities in some feeds weren't being decoded
- Fixed issue where stories that contained embedded videos weren't showing in Infostormer feeds
- Add redirect from Github home feed attempts to blog feed
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- Fixed issue where some items weren't being shown in Github releases feeds
- Added xataka feeds
- Fixed issue with some missing Under Armour feed items
- Fixed Not found error on Trustpilot feeds
- Tweaked font styling on website
- Added support for more immersive, "long form" articles in Aljazeera feeds
- Fixed ordering and teaser HTML in Philadelphia Inquirer feeds
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- Added a ton more of new Mastodon feeds--we would list them all here but that would take forever. If you've requested that an instance be supported, it's likely there now. You can verify by using the search form on the homepage.
- Added some redirects to correct a few incorrect feed URL attempts
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- Fixed Github pulls and issues feeds (sorry this took a day or so longer than we expected)
- Removed validation errors that occurred for feeds that had no items
- Fixed issue in nettavisen feeds
- Added MTG News Archive feeds
- Added feeds for The Intercept
- Added more Mastodon feeds
- Made a few slower feeds faster
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- Fixed some Rumble feeds that werent redirecting properly
- Added a better alternative VSCode feed that contains full content vs their RSS feeds that just have a pretty useless link that says "Read the full article"
- Added huffpost.com and huffingtonpost.co.uk feeds that contain the full content of each article and with ads and useless embeds removed
- Added infostormer.com feeds
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- Fixed some rather embarrassing geeky, behind-the-scenes error messages that were being shown in some feeds
- Fixed issue where some feeds werent showing up in homepage search form
- Added more Mastodon feeds
- Improved error messaging for Twitter feeds of suspended users
- Fixed occasional error in Twitter due to its timeline cursors
- Fixed issue in IMDB calendar feeds where movie titles with future publish dates werent showing
- Improved performance of Mytheresa feeds
- Redirected morningbrew.com feed URLs to morningbrew.com/daily
- Fixed caching issue with GitHub discussions feeds
- Fixed issue where new Github discussions werent appearing in feeds immediately
- Added 404 if Contact success page is hit without being referred from contact form
- Truncated long message subjects submitted through contact form
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- Added AP News feeds
- Significantly sped up generation of all feeds that retrieve content from the web
- Removed @ mention that precedes the titles in Mastodon timeline feeds (this was redundant since the feed author field already has this information)
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- Fixed Aljazeera homepage feed
- Fixed issue where some Aljazeera category feeds weren't returning all articles
- Support 'special' immersive articles in Reuters news feeds
- Fixed event detection when generating Meetup group event feeds
- Fixed error in blacklisted user agent detection
- Fixed issue that prevented some items from showing in Morning Brew daily feed
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- Fixed issue with weird unicode characters that were breaking the ground.news RSS feed (thanks to the anonymous person who reported this issue)
- Added feeds for GitHub releases
- Added more Mastodon feeds (twit.social, masto.actor, esperanto.masto.host, and bitbang.social)
- Made some big performance improvements to feed generation
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- Added more improvements to the Morning Brew daily feeds
- Removed extraneous styling in Morning Brew daily feeds so they're easier on the eyes while reading them in RSS readers in dark mode
- Added nettavisen.no feeds
- Added more Mastodon feeds
- Improved performance of GitHub feeds -- they load even faster now
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- Improved error message when temporarily unable to parse a feed due to third-party server errors
- Fixed issue that occurred when an IMDB movie didnt have a publish date
- Fixed issue where some IMDB feed items were not returning correct title
- Fixed issue that caused certain Twitter feed items not to properly rendering replies to retweets
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- Fixed quite a few issues with Twitter feeds not working due to certain threaded tweets in timeline (if you've been running into errors getting feeds for certain Twitter users recently, please give it another try)
- Fixed create date of certain retweets being incorrect
- Improved handling of Mastodon errors on servers that are slow to fulfill requests (this is likely due to servers being overwhelmed with a lot of traffic recently)
- Added more Mastodon feeds
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- Added Open Collective update feeds
- Fixed issue in certain Open Collective feeds that occurred when update has no image
- Added proper user unavailable error when attempting to get a feed for a non-existent Twitter user
- Added mastodon.art feeds
- Unblocked feed generation for SSENSE feeds due to an issue with their website
- Added redirect for non-www Morning Brew feed requests to www
- Fixed typo on Mastodon feed announcement
- Increased accuracy of temporarily-down error messages for technical.ly feeds
- Added messaging when listings are no longer available for Grailed feeds
- Improved Pocket Casts error when content is temporarily unavailable