The Many Broken Feeds

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RSS/Atom feeds are central to the author's reading process, with over 700 curated subscriptions.
Common feed issues include expired SSL certificates, timeouts from slow servers, and misconfigured firewalls.
Servers going down, changed feed URLs, feed parsing failures, deleted feeds, and deleted websites are other causes of broken feeds.
Solutions include setting up SSL renewal reminders, improving server performance, excluding feed URLs from firewall blocks, and monitoring server uptime.
For changed feed URLs, maintaining or redirecting old URLs is recommended to avoid breaking subscriptions.
Feed validation is suggested to catch parsing failures, and reconsideration is urged for those thinking of deleting feeds.
The author advocates for the continued use and support of feeds, emphasizing their importance in the Indieweb ecosystem.

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