RSS Feed says unable to get feed

Posts: 4 · xenon 15 Feb 2020, 23:17

I just added the RSS feed to my reader and it says it can't get news from the feed. Is the feed down?

Posts: 7212 · Zenju 15 Feb 2020, 23:25

Just uploaded an update, please try again.

Posts: 4 · xenon 15 Feb 2020, 23:39

I just tried 2 different readers, they show updates from other feeds but when I add yours, it still says nothing there. Maybe it takes a little while?

Posts: 7212 · Zenju 16 Feb 2020, 08:04

It seems there may be an issue on your end (maybe something blocking the website?) The RSS feed validates fine:
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffreefilesync.org%2Fnews-feed.php

Posts: 4 · xenon 16 Feb 2020, 14:29

Yes, I checked that too before I posted. It only validates that the link to the server works, not that there is any news to retrieve. I have since added many other feeds and on multiple computers and so far this one is the only one that says there is no news. Are you saying that you add the feed and you get news from the FreeFileSync feed?

If the feed from this site wasn't valid, I wouldn't be able to add it to my readers. It adds just fine. Just no posts to retrieve.

Posts: 7212 · Zenju 18 Feb 2020, 09:30

Yes, the RSS feed works fine in my test, and also when accessed by other clients, e.g. https://codebeautify.org/rssviewer

Posts: 4 · xenon 19 Feb 2020, 03:19

Well I tested a 3rd RSS reader, this time in Firefox and it shows https://freefilesync.org/news-feed.php feed fine. Very odd that all my other RSS feeds show fine in Chrome and standalone RSS feeder but not this feed. Literally the only feed that I have run into that doesn't work everywhere. Not sure what the difference in the feed could be.