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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon nt1m

Cannot add emtpy feed

Open sukiletxe opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Add-on version Add-on version: 3.4

Describe the bug Currently I can't add empty feeds (use case: comment feeds where: there are no comments; I've commented; but the comment is pending moderation (so the feed is still empty).

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to https://ctrl.blog and look for posts with no comments (there should be plenty)
  2. Click on post comment.
  3. Click on feed, then try subscribing.
  4. Nothing happens.

Expected behavior The add-on should have added the empty feed to the livemarks.

sukiletxe avatar Feb 08 '22 07:02 sukiletxe

We usually consider empty feeds to be some kind of parsing problem and thus don't allow adding them.

evilpie avatar May 28 '22 17:05 evilpie

Woops, forgot to reply to this. If I understand the RSS and ATOM specs correctly, it seems that RSS requires only title, link and description, and ATOM only id, title and updated. Granted, I don't know how valid feeds are in the web, but feeds without items are technically allowed.

sukiletxe avatar Jan 19 '23 11:01 sukiletxe

We should probably allow subscribing to empty feeds.

nt1m avatar Nov 03 '23 04:11 nt1m