99% of times it's just an error on their end and they eventually come back.
Why: I've created popurls fame back in the days (now hvper.com) and I can tell you that this would be the first prominent case that a major outlet would eventually give up on offering a feed. RSS is alive and kicking and its death is just something the tech community loves to agonize over and over again.
My experience diverges from yours. Reuters feeds have been highly reliable over the last 3 years for me, with near zero downtime. There were at least one new entry per hour, almost 24h/24, but it can go up to 5 new entries per hour.
This is not a small "hiccup", this is a total blackout for almost a day now
Meta : HN doesn't let me downvote your comment, that doesn't seem very fair.
The tools/rss page went offline October 29th 2019, which seems to indicate a planned shutdown of the RSS prepared months ago. Possibly, they delayed the shutdown with covid19 to now
I created a support ticket with my RSS reader (Newsblur) about this issue concerning you! It appears to be quietly feeding me hvper.com articles from the now non-functional feeds.reuters.com (https://forum.newsblur.com/t/where-did-hvper-news-come-from/...).
I don't supposed you know how this magic could possibly happen?
Why: I've created popurls fame back in the days (now hvper.com) and I can tell you that this would be the first prominent case that a major outlet would eventually give up on offering a feed. RSS is alive and kicking and its death is just something the tech community loves to agonize over and over again.