Unable to follow RSS feeds that got too big

[Jiehong]

Describe the bug
Recently, I saw some blogs I follow become red in the sidebar of commafeed, and I thought that their RSS feed must be broken.

However, they are not.

So I tried to re-add them, but it is no longer possible and commafeed returns the following error:

jakarta.ws.rs.WebApplicationException: Response size exceeds the maximum allowed size (5242880 bytes)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to commafeed.com
2. Click on the top bar '+'
3. Paste 'https://blog.ploeh.dk/archive/' as the feed url
4. Click 'Next'
5. See error

Expected behavior

Feed can still be used, even if size a bit big.

sidenote: it could be nice if a feed on the sidebar had a on-hover tooltip showing the last refresh message. Because the only place where you can guess why it's red it's by editing it, and checking the last refresh message.

Screenshots

Environment (please complete the following information):

• commafeed.com;
• Browser [e.g. chrome, firefox]: any
• Device [e.g. desktop, mobile]:

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

[Jiehong]

another blog leading to the same issue in commafeed: https://danluu.com/atom.xml

[Athou]

Well it's neither an issue nor a bug, it's a feature that is deliberately enabled on the free instance on commafeed.com. Large feeds require a lot of memory to be parsed and are thus blocked, as mentioned here.

You're free to self-host CommaFeed on your own server and configure it as you'd like :)

[Jiehong]

@Athou : fair enough!

Then, the website could say "you've reached the limits of this free instance of comma feed".

I'll check and start self hosting it.

Nonetheless, thank you for providing that free version! It's been great, and I'm grateful!

[Athou]

You're right, I guess the error message could be improved 😄