Cloudflare hates RSS #1363
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Hi @anthonyryan1 I can try to submit CommaFeed again, it seems the procedure changed a little bit (it was a google form before). Do you have an example of a feed that is blocked by cloudflare? |
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This issue came up for discussion on Hacker News today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41864632 A Cloudflare employee has said he'd like to hear from the maintainers of RSS readers if you A couple feeds I follow that haven't worked reliably in years are:
I'm not sure if you have aggregate stats on 403s, but I expect a lot of them are going to be cloudflare related. These will all load in a browser after answering a "Verify you are human" but they'll never load in CommaFeed because of the Cloudflare firewall. I've contacted the site maintainers, but they're often not technically of allowing a subset of URLs through Cloudflare filtering. Just thought I'd drop this note because it's the first time I've seen any hope of Cloudflare doing anything to improve this situation. |
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This isn't a Commafeed bug as much as an external, internet-wide problem. I thought I'd open an issue for brainstorming.
More and more blogs are throwing up Cloudflare in front of them. And Cloudflare is blocking Commafeed from fetching the RSS feeds. The feed fetcher is a bot, so it makes sense. But it's still causing more and more blogs to go offline.
Do you think registering Commafeed as a bot with Cloudflare would help? We've got no hope of stopping more websites from piling up behind Cloudflare.
All ideas welcome.
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