FreshRSS is making excessive feed requests to websites

Resolved

Users of the FreshRSS reader application are getting blocked from accessing RSS feeds due to making a large number of requests to feeds on a website at once.

09/19/2024 11:28 AM:
Acknowledged IP addresses of users being blocked. The app appears to be appropriately caching responses for feed URLs individually. But the app is making requests to different feed URLs (that haven't been cached), all at the same time.
11/03/2024 12:35 PM:
A support ticket has been filed on GitHub at FreshRSS/FreshRSS#6973.
11/26/2025 9:10 AM:
This issue has been resolved and is now being mitigated by restricting the application's requests through our abuse protection. Because FreshRSS is not a verified reader, it will continue to be automatically restricted when excessive requests are made—even if those requests are made across multiple IP addresses and regardless of their User Agent.
If you are a FreshRSS user and donating at least $25 or more per month to help with server costs, please contact us for a special token that can be added to the application that will remove these restrictions.