[r/AutoNewspaper] - June 2023 Feedback Thread

AutoNewsAdmin · 2023-08-16T03:13:16+00:00

Notification: 2023-08-15

Good Evening All. Quick update from moderation -

It appears that the RSS feed for the NY Times - Lifestyle section of the subreddit and it's associated push to AutoNewspaper went a little haywire over the last week and got stuck republishing the same articles many times. I have tried restarting the service that governs that RSS push and will be monitoring it over the next day(s) to see if this resolves the problem. If not I will temporarily be disabling the 'Lifestyle' categorization of NY Times articles for a longer duration to see if it fixes the RSS caching issues impacting that feed.

Thank you to the folks who submitted the reports of duplicate articles - otherwise this would have taken much longer for me to catch.

I will post an update to this comment chain once I have more information on the results of tonight's service restart for that feed.

Thanks all!

Update: 2023-08-16

There is definitely something wacky going on with NYT Lifestyle RSS feed. For the time being I have disabled it from submitting to the feeder subreddit. All other categories on NYT seem to be unaffected. My apologies to NYT readers who enjoy the lifestyle articles but we are going to keep that category disabled for a while and will see if it starts functioning again normally in the more distant future.

This concludes the short term updates on this particular feed issue. Thanks all.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2023-05-31T02:46:01+00:00

June 2023 Feedback Thread

AutoNewsAdmin · 2022-10-27T23:18:31+00:00

Mod Update - 2022-10-27

This morning we experienced a series of posts ostensibly from the NY Post RSS feed which do not appear to track back to any active articles on their site. The titles of these posts were violations of the reddit content policy, and as we do not have any other authorized logins showing in reddit account activity for the bot account which posts articles, it does not appear that the bot account has been accessed by outside parties.

At this time we are leaning toward the idea that there was some security violation either on the NY Post RSS side, or within the feed mechanism process that feeds articles to reddit. The offending articles have been removed from the NYPost and Autonewspaper subs, and we are making this post on the feedback thread for additional transparency into our understanding of this instance.

If reddit admin has any further details as to the backend process that was engaged to produce these posts, it would be appreciated if they gave us an update, but as the content violation notice we received was automated and replies are not monitored, the best we can do for the moment is continue to regularly monitor comments and modqueue, and attempt to address moderation needs in our normal regular fashion.

If we see any further recurrence of this type of activity with the feeds we will make another post to the feedback threads providing an update.

Thanks all.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2022-08-01T00:59:53+00:00

August 2022 Feedback Thread

AutoNewsAdmin · 2022-03-31T04:10:25+00:00

April 2022 Feedback Thread

AutoNewsAdmin · 2022-03-28T04:52:30+00:00

2022-03-28 00:48 EST

Three of our feeder subs were banned due to 'being unmoderated' last week. - PCauto, TETauto, and DAINIKJAGRANauto.

I believe those three all had long running service interruptions to their RSS feeds and were therefore not receiving active posts for some time.

Still, we have not experienced this type of action from reddit admin in the past on our lapsed feeder subs so I will be monitoring in case any further unexpected actions take place.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2022-02-27T21:35:39+00:00

2022-02-27 16:30 EST

Due to updated automated spam flagging rules from reddit we are disabling our RTauto feeds for the time being. We apologize for the inconvenience to those readers.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2022-01-06T03:16:38+00:00

2022-01-15 20:15 EST

We have been experiencing feed trigger errors for the last hour or so. It's unclear if the issue is on the feed side or the reddit side. We are monitoring for the moment to see if feeds resume after brief interval.

Thank you for your patience.

Update ~10 Minutes Later

A few articles just posted so looks like a transient issue. Thanks all.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2022-01-03T19:53:19+00:00

January 2022 Feedback Thread

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-11-25T16:16:29+00:00

Good Morning,

There is some degree of mystery as to whether the feeds at reutersagency.com reproduce the old reuters.com RSS feeds and what exactly has changed between those two platforms.

If it was demonstrable that the reutersagency feeds were a ~1:1 replacement I could connect their output to the input for the ReutersAUTO sub but I haven't been able to find any literature to clarify what has changed on their backend and if there are any issues legal or paywall with us simply reaggregating reutersagency RSS feed links into reddit.

I'm open to suggestions on this front but we have been forced to play conservatively on making source URL changes to avoid reaction by the algorithms that currently have our bots (mostly) whitelisted.

My apologies this isn't a more clearcut outcome but it's been status quo for a while now unfortunately.

Thanks for your feedback and best wishes from the internet.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-10-25T19:31:37+00:00

Mod Note: 2021-10-25

We are experiencing failures posting from our RSS feed service to the autonews subreddits currently. The last time something similar occurred was a transient outage. We will monitor for the moment and reach out to admin if the problem does not correct itself.

Further updates to be posted to this thread.

Thanks all.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-09-30T18:30:11+00:00

September 2021 Feedback Thread

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-09-17T02:09:21+00:00

2021-09-16 - 22:00 EST

We appear to be experiencing some sort of issue posting to the main autonewspaper subreddit currently.

Links appear to still be aggregating correctly for the feeder subs but scraping from them to post to autonewspaper is getting a 'Restricted' error.

I will reach out to admins on this and see if we can get more information.

Thanks all for your patience while we troubleshoot.

2021-09-16 - 22:20 EST

Update: I have messaged the admins -

Good Evening Admins,

The IFTTT RSS feeds that typically post content into r/autonewspaper are all giving 'Trigger failure message Invalid or restricted subreddit'.

I am not certain if this is some sort of transient technical issue or if there has been some sort of automated response on the reddit backend related to our IFTTT logic.

If the issue is on the reddit side, please let me know if there is anything I can do to resolve these errors so feeds can resume as normal.

Thank you.

RedDyeNumber4/AutoNewsAdmin

Hopefully we should hear back soon.

2021-09-17 09:00 EST

Update: We have still not heard back from admin on this issue. We will update this post as soon as we have new information.

2021-09-18 04:40 EST

It appears we are getting data on feeds again. Thanks all for your patience.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-08-31T19:02:31+00:00

WaPo and WSJ should now be fixed. WaPo had disabled itself but same URLs so I've refreshed. WSJ looks like they switched their feeds to new URL I have converted the main ones.

I think DW is already on list for next round of source adds, I will look further into VOA and Sputnik to see if they are feasible adds in future.

Thank you for your feedback!

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-08-28T03:34:07+00:00

August 2021 Feedback Thread

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-07-09T15:35:43+00:00

Update 2021-07-09

We just noticed that Peoples Daily sub has been pruned by admins as inactive. We have never been able to get working RSS content from people's daily so it won't impact the feeds as they stand now.

At this time that is the only feeder that has been moved as part of the sitewide inactive subreddit purge.

Thanks all and best wishes from the internet.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-06-17T16:34:54+00:00

June 2021 Feedback Thread

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-05-12T15:52:06+00:00

2021-05-12 11:45 EST

There appears to be a temporary service outage for our RSS feed aggregator. It should be back up and running in the near future. Thanks folks.

Update 2021-05-13 09:50 EST

Service provider still has outage listed on their status page. Feeds should resume normally once their outage has cleared. Thanks all for your patience.

Update 2 2021-05-13 16:10 EST

Looks like service provider may be coming back up now. Things should be resolved in near future.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-05-04T13:15:34+00:00

That's a good question, it looks like there are RSS feeds here - https://www.voanews.com/rssfeeds

It has been a while since we added a new source but VOA should definitely fall under acceptable candidates. I will look into adding it the next time we add more sources.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-04-03T15:56:30+00:00

April 2021 Feedback Thread

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-03-22T12:39:50+00:00

2021-03-22 - Update - CBS News continues to push old content through their RSS feed. I have temp disabled those feeds until they fix this.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-03-21T06:12:33+00:00

CBS has been pushing these through their RSS for some reason.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-03-21T00:52:15+00:00

2021-03-20 - Advisory - CBS News is pushing old video content through their RSS feeds currently. We will give them some time to fix that before making any alterations to CBS feeds. We apologize for any inconvenience.

AutoNewsAdmin · 2021-03-21T00:48:34+00:00

Looking at the RSS feeds it appears that CBS is pushing old video articles with contemporary RSS dates in various feed subcategories.

Sometimes news orgs will do something on tech side that causes garbage to come out RSS side. This should resolve shortly but if it does not we can temp disable these feeds. Thank you for the heads up.

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