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The Many Broken Feeds


Short notes about things I come across and ideas I run into

This issue is relatively new, and I suspect it’s because people are reconfiguring their firewall rules to block website scrapping bots. If you can’t do these, consider sticking a banner or post on your new website informing the readers of new feed URLs to subscribe. I suspect this happens when people hand-roll their feed generators, and do not take care of addressing all Unicode or XML encoding edge-cases.

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