Can’t add feed

[Mostxlnt]

When I try to add https://kill-the-newsletter.com/feeds/r6m7zl7t0stgmszfgfbq.xml Feedly says there is no feed to be found. It works in other readers.

[brentsimmons]

We’ve found that that happens sometimes with Feedly — we’re not sure yet if it’s Feedly or some issue with our Feedly sync implementation.

[Mostxlnt]

Hi Brent, thanks for confirming that it's not just me. Is there a workaround for this? I have the feed working OK in Reeder but its interface is horrible compared to Feedly, and I don't want to have to change.
Cheers
Chris

[brentsimmons]

You could add an On My Mac (or iPhone/iPad) or iCloud account to NetNewsWire, and then add the feed there.

If it’s an On My Mac account, it won’t be synced — but if you add it to an iCloud account, it will be synced, but just between instances of NetNewsWire.

[Mostxlnt]

Ah, so it works as an On My Mac account but I get the same 'Feed not found' message if I try to add it as an iCloud feed.

[brentsimmons]

Interesting! In NetNewsWire, the On My Mac and iCloud code is the same code for finding a feed.

What I suspect is that sometimes the server is not returning an expected response. So I checked using curl on the command line — and it returns a 403 Forbidden for me.

And I tried it in my browser and got this…

…which tells me the issue is on the server side. Sometimes it’s just not returning a feed and is returning an error instead.

[Mostxlnt]

Hmm, weird. Well, 90% of my RSS reading is on my Mac so it's not the end of the world if I only get to see newsletters there. Thanks for looking into this, interesting problem. Cheers.