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Yet unlike the 20+ other websites that I can just copy the main url into NetNewsWire, it doesn’t seem to have an RSS feed…


<https://rachelbythebay.com/w/feed/>

(Under the RSS icon.)



Perhaps you should either file a bug with NetNewsWire, or debug NetNewsWire and submit a PR so it works with her blog.


So we are now going back to special casing websites that don’t follow standards like the IE6 days?


Do you need special-casing to recognise

   <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/w/atom.xml">
?


Using the link given from the website

https://imgur.com/a/DkifnBG


The w3.org validator says that https://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml is a valid Atom 1.0 feed (https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fra...).

It does seem like something's off about the feed. Vienna can read the file, but it comes up empty. But it doesn't seem like the problem is standards non-compliance.


This particular button is quite visible on the webpage


With NetNewsWire even when you go to URL from the link

https://imgur.com/a/DkifnBG


Other posters mentioned her IP block - I wouldn't be surprised if that was the cause since automated netnewswire traffic might easily be confused with abuse.


There have been a variety of posts semi-recently about a “feed reader score” project, and maybe NNW is particularly misbehaved?

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/12/10/feed/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/12/17/packets/


NNW works for every other site that has an RSS feed and someone else just commented that while it’s a valid atom feed, when they try to use it in another newsreader, they get an empty result




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