Changelog
Technical improvements, changes, and bugs that,
when resolved, need not be mentioned
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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
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- Added support for more Mastodon feeds (use the search bar on our home page to see what domains are supported)
- Changed error messages in a way that can be shown directly in RSS readers
- Fixed issue where Mastodon user feeds werent returning latest items
- Added proper error message when attempting to access a Mastodon feed that requires login
- Added Morning Brew Daily feed
- Fixed replies to image-only statuses in Mastodon feeds
- Fixed issue where some titles weren't showing in Amazon Prime Video feeds
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- Fixed error in Twtter feed when it contains tweets that have been removed by Twitter staff
- Added Github Discussion feeds for organizations
- Improved error messaging for Mastodon feeds with non-public content
- Fixed issue where images on Mastodon announcement page were not showing
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- Added the full tweet embed that has been replied to in Twitter feeds
- Announced Mastodon feeds on blog
- Added helpful error messages when content for Mastodon feed is made private
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- Added IMDB feed for upcoming movie releases
- Improved performance of YouTube feeds
- Added Mastodon feeds for beta testing (will announce once stable)
- Fixed errors in parachutehome feeds due to their website being temporarily down
- Improved handling of errors caused when Twitter feed data is temporarily unavailable
- Fixed small issue with nightly backups
- Fixed issue where non-news feed items were leaking into Aljazeera feeds
- Improved performance of Meetup feeds
- Zapped memory leak due to hanging requests
- Added support for categories on technical.ly feeds
- Fixed usage of potentially supported URL errors
- Improved performance of elixirgallery feeds
- Fixed intermittent link issues with Amazon Prime Video feeds
- Added brunellocucinelli feeds
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- Overhauled ALLSAINTS feeds after their recent website redesign (you should see a message about how to find the new feed URL directly in your ALLSAINTS feed if subscribed)
- Increased performance of The Archive (archivesf) feeds
- Fixed authentication issue with Pocket Casts feeds
- Fixed issue with some items not showing up in YouTube feeds
- Increased performance of mytheresa feeds
- Refactored so that feed requests reuse previous sessions to keep server memory usage low and increase overall responsiveness of feeds
- Made some minor tweaks to website (you probably won't really notice them)
- Dismantled Instagram feeds temporarily until we can fix their efforts to block us from their content
- Added more helpful error messages when accessing antonioli feeds while their site is temporarily down
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- Fixed error on asos feeds for items that didnt yet have a price published
- Added Reuters feeds for beta testing (give us a few days to test these before fully relying on them)
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- Added more graceful, user-friendly error messaging
- Added support for all RSS types in accept headers of incoming requests from RSS clients
- Improved handling of YouTube 404 errors
- Fixed caching issue with items in YouTube feeds
- Fixed Twitter feed error that occurred when a timeline had deleted tweets
- Improved error handling for Meetup feeds
- Added response with more specific status codes when requests to unsupported URLs produce an error
- Improved messaging when attempting to access unsupported feeds
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- Exposed more detail and helpful messaging around access errors across all feeds
- Improved performance of wolfensson feeds
- Added more helpful error messaging when website is down and feed content can't be retrieved for Pocket Casts feeds
- Improved handling of timeout errors when attempting to get content for Meetup feeds
- Updated protocol to https in @ mention links in Twitter feeds
- Added support for site-wide Rumble feed
- Added support for discovered results in Pocket Casts feeds
- Fixed line-height of multiline headings on error pages
- Improved handling of 410 errors that occur when a previously accessible video in a Rumble feed has been taken down or made private
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- Added 31philliplim feeds
- Fixed and re-enable antonioli feeds
- Improved performance in Loewe feeds
- Removed duplicate attempts to fetch items on Github feeds
- Handled potential 500 errors for Rumble feeds
- Fixed issue with links in certain Aljazeera feeds
- Fixed error caused by race-condition during storage insertion
- Improved 404 messaging on Rumble feeds
- Added a more helpful error message for temporarily down Rumble feeds
- Fixed error when extracting video URL from YouTube feeds
- Added suus.es feeds