Silent feed failing

[qznc]

I just noticed that a feed was missing. Turns out it the RSS was invalid. Readable silently ignored the feed. For rarely updated feeds the user might never notice it.

Maybe a the feed list can display somehow, if a feed failed during the last fetch?

[AliasIO]

I'm currently travelling so can't easily look at what happened to this particular feed, usually a fetch fails when the website takes a long time to respond. You can the last successful fetch date in "Subscriptions" in your profile by hovering over the feed names.

[qznc]

That particular feed was under my control and I fixed it server-side.

Thanks for the hover tip, I did not know that. I went through my subscriptions hunting for "Never successfully fetched":

• XML error: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.platypope.org%2Fsyndicate
• Valid, still never fetched: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayingwithpointers.com%2Ffeed
• Fetched in june, RDF error now: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citeulike.org%2Frss%2Fuser%2Fazwinkau%2Fwatchlist
• Valid, but not fetched for some time: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexport.arxiv.org%2Frss%2Fcs.OS
• Valid, still never fetched: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fewontfix.com%2Ffeed.rss

Do you prefer a single issue for each of those? ;)

[AliasIO]

The most interesting ones for me are the feeds that are valid but are never fetched. In most cases it would be that the site is too slow but it's also possible there is a validation issue on my end. When I get the chance I'll look at those, if you find more feel free to add them here.