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Are the new RSS feeds misbehaving? (thebrainbin.org)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/AskMbin@thebrainbin.org
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So noticed a few hours ago the feeds had changed.

However, each instance seems to behave differently from one another. Would have posted on Github if I could reproduce the errors consistently.

Here on TBB, any feeds give an unsupported format error.

On Kbin.Earth, the feeds give a 403 error instead.

On GehirnEimer, which I don't have an account on but can be browsed without an account, feeds work fine.

Tested with:

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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (5 children)

oh okay, well yeah I enabled the "force users to login" option, because the scrapers are just causing tremendous load otherwise. On gehirneimer it is currently disabled so maybe that is the sole reason?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    So it is just the login requirement or did I miss something else? Allowing anonymous access to the endpoint would solve it then, but makes it also easy for scrapers to fetch content.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Appears to have been the solution. Tested a link yesterday night, after BentiGorlich's comment on the spike graph, and the direct links are back to being login-protected, though now feeds seem to be working.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Seems to be the case? Left an instance of Newsboat running as I went to do my chores, and just checking now, it already fetched a few communities' posts.

    Though it seems concerning to me that scrappers are getting past the current protections. (Hopefully I'm not one of them, considering how much I still follow...)

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