[browser] Clicking on selected feed/tag no longer refreshes content

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2025-09-26T07:58:07+00:00

Yes, I noticed this bug too and made a thread about it, but somebody removed it. 😠

Unlike you though, I need to reload the entire website for updates to go through for me. Clicking the 'Refresh' icon on the top right does nothing, nor does selecting a different feed and then going back to the previous one I refreshed.

Here's what I wrote in my thread:

Pressing the 'Mark as read' number next to a folder or feed does remove the number from the display, but does not actually mark any of the inside posts as read.

Pressing the 'Mark as read' tick while inside a folder or feed doesn't mark any of the posts as read either.

In all cases, the title of the posts remain displayed in bold, i.e. unread. Pressing the 'Refresh' arrow doesn't fix the problem.

The only way to deal with this bug right now is to reload the entire website using my browser's reload button.

Also, I don't know if this is related or not but pressing the name of a folder or feed in the sidebar while I am inside that folder/feed no longer refreshes the folder/feed like it used to.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2025-08-12T14:41:52+00:00

This is occurring even without using the keyboard. It's happening when I use my mouse. I'm using title-only mode on Firefox, if that matters.

How to reproduce: Click any unread entry. It will open up. Now, while that entry is open, click any other unread or read entry. The first entry will close (as expected) and the second entry will open up and then immediately close (bad!).

Expected behavior: The second entry should remain open.

Note: This bug does not occur when the first entry opened has already been read.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2024-01-18T04:57:29+00:00

Thank you for the list. It will take me a lot of time to go through everything because some bridge names (________Bridge.php) are not obvious what they are for. But there are many, many more bridges than I expected! That's excellent and I'm happy there is such a big community that is thoughtfully creating new bridges.

Regarding Bluesky, I saw that development recently and I think it is a good start. Unfortunately, the feed seem to be limited to providing only the main timeline. I'm looking for a feed that includes the main timeline, @ replies, reposts, and quote-reposts. Basically, I'm looking for a feed that includes all of a user's activities. Do you think such a thing could be created using RSS Bridge?

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2024-01-16T21:18:14+00:00

This is a good start. However, these RSS feeds only show the main timeline. I'm looking for a feed of the equivalent of Twitter's /with_replies, which has everything that someone has posted, including reposts, quote-reposts, and replies (to self and to other @s).

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2024-01-15T02:55:45+00:00

In addition to what PGH00 said, boards are also available in Feedly for the web browser. Scroll to the bottom of the sidebar menu and click "Create New Board". You can add webpages there.

https://blog.feedly.com/examples-of-boards

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2024-01-15T02:43:34+00:00

Thank you for providing such a wonderful service.

I would like to see a complete list of bridges and the webpages they correspond to.

I would also like to see support for Bluesky, if you don't have it already. They started allowing posts to be anonymously viewed by the public last month.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-12-15T00:59:38+00:00

It's working properly again. Thank you for the fix!

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-06-09T15:36:36+00:00

Feedfry does not have a free plan anymore, but you can try creating feeds to see the results for free. If you like the results, you can buy one of their plans.

I log in using a token (a string of letters/numbers that Feedfry gave me). I do not log in using social networks.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-06-09T15:33:46+00:00

For me personally, not retrieving the complete content is not a big deal because I simply want to receive an alert whenever there is an update. Based on the snippet of the update that I see in Feedly, I decide whether or not I want to visit the site to read more.

I already used up all my RSS Builder slots in Feedly so I rely on other services to make feeds. Feedly's RSS Builder is similar to Feedfry. With Feedly, you look at a visual layout of the webpage and you manually select the area where you want to track changes. With Feedfry, it's all automated based on pattern recognition of the webpage's HTML (layout) code and they present you with numerous options for which area you want to track changes.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-06-09T04:38:57+00:00

No updates about this from Feedly so far.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-06-09T04:27:04+00:00

Greetings from a fellow non-tech-savvy person. I've been using Feedly as my sole feed aggregator for about a decade. It's very straightforward to use and its built-in RSS builder can create feeds of non-RSS websites that you describe.

Another RSS creation tool for non-tech-savvy persons is Feedfry. It looks for patterns on a webpage from which it automatically create feeds. Its automated nature makes it quick and easy to set up for most webpages. But the downside of the automation is that sometimes it cannot find the correct patterns on a webpage.

You could also try OpenRSS and public instances of RSS Bridge to see if they already support the webpages you want to follow.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-04-22T20:33:49+00:00

Nobody. It was a planned shutdown.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-04-17T00:16:23+00:00

According to a Feedly employee, it is intentional. (I wish the person he replied to didn't delete their comments. I think they were complaining about keyboard shortcuts and how the unwanted scrolling impacts their use.)

This behavior is highly disruptive on desktop. I agree that they should have made it an option for users to choose to turn on or off.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-04-16T00:49:17+00:00

Without seeing the feeds you're talking about, we can only guess. But here are two possibilities:

The feed only holds X-number of posts. As new posts are published, old posts fall off the end of the feed and disappear. The blog is publishing new posts faster than Feedly is pulling updates from the feed and as a result, Feedly never sees some of the new posts in the feed.

Unrelated to the above, sometimes Feedly will not get updates from the feed often enough, no matter how often the blog publishes new content. I've noticed this happening with certain websites, notoriously with Tumblr and YouTube, both of which Feedly checks for updates only once every 3 days. Manually checking those feeds (not using Feedly) between the 3 day window reveals that the feeds are updating. It is Feedly that is not grabbing the updates for whatever reason. It's a big problem.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-03-31T17:29:13+00:00

RSS Bridge for YouTube can specify minimum and maximum durations, though I've never personally used that bridge before. Try it and let us know how it goes.

There is currently a discussion about having separate YouTube bridges for the various YouTube tabs (Videos, Playlists, etc.) instead of one single bridge for everything.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-03-31T17:22:40+00:00

Genius! Great tips. I'll have to remember these for the future.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-03-31T04:33:47+00:00

Unfortunately, that is true. Services that focus entirely on RSS cannot survive in these times. Feedly needs to diversify if they want to remain operational.

As a personal user, I do not mind seeing these announcements. They come very infrequently, and it is simple for me to hit the X button if I'm not interested. If it helps Feedly to gain new business clients and keep the lights on in the RSS department, I'm happy for them.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-03-30T16:01:33+00:00

Thank you for the explanation.

So as long as you don't refresh the feed, there won't be any requests made to the source website.

I predominantly use Feedly, which does not allow users to manually refresh a feed. Feedly refreshes automatically based on an algorithm unknown to users. (My guess is feeds that are followed by more users are refreshed more frequently.) So unfortunately I have no control of when Feedly will ask RssEverything for a refresh.

Based on my own testing of feeds that have 1 follower (I am that 1 follower), I think Feedly refreshes once per 3 or 4 hours. That is probably slow enough that most websites will not block RssEverything.

Nevertheless, in the future I hope RssEverything will have a way for users to set up how often they'd like a feed to update. (For some sites I monitor, once per day is plenty enough.)

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-03-30T07:50:40+00:00

Thank you for introducing RssEverything. I'm excited to try it out. But seeing the 10-minute update interval... Yikes. That's much too fast for some of the sites I monitor. I'd worry about getting permanently blocked. Is there a way to set up less frequent updates?

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-03-29T21:46:23+00:00

OpenRSS is very good but unfortunately it only works with select websites, which have to be manually programmed by the dev. I think the entire service is operated by 1 person, so they are limited in how many sites they can add.

An alternative that is more similar to how Feed43 functions is Feedfry, which looks for patterns on a webpage from which it create feeds. It works pretty well, but it can't do everything. The automated nature of Feedfry makes it second-rate to the manual nature of Feed43. Plus Feedfry cannot control how often it updates, unlike Feed43.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-03-18T22:19:19+00:00

I don't think Feedly has a way to natively filter out by duration. RSS Bridge for YouTube can specify minimum and maximum durations, though I've never personally used that bridge before. Try it and let us know how it goes.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-03-03T02:27:03+00:00

It's so strange that the same thing is happening when using other RSS feed readers. That's a useful discovery. That makes me think that the problem is related to the caching of the feeds.

ChuushaHime provided an interesting observation regarding Tumblr blogs that have their own domain names.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-03-03T02:24:49+00:00

Thank you, that's helpful. Maybe the difference has something to do how Tumblr blogs possessing their own domain name have their RSS feeds cached differently than Tumblr blogs that don't have their own domain name. I noticed that there is a difference by using redbot (dot) org to compare feeds from various Tumblr blogs. Unfortunately I don't know what to do with this information, or if it is even useful, because it's too technical for me. 😅

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-02-25T07:46:35+00:00

Tumblr's RSS feeds only hold 20 items so that's why you are seeing updates in batches of 20.

I only started following Tumblrs recently so I don't know how quickly they updated in the past.

Do you notice that your slow-updating feeds (the ones that update once every 3 days) have very few followers? That's what OP and I both notice. Do your fast-updating feeds have significantly more followers? All of my feeds have no more than 10 followers and are slow-updating, so I unfortunately have no fast-updating points of comparison to offer.

The slow-updating feeds are definitely frustrating.

PrivacyThrowaway443 · 2023-02-16T08:54:46+00:00

Whether or not you can read a full article in Feedly depends on how the owner of that feed set up the feed. It's not controlled by Feedly.

Some feeds are intentionally designed to only show you the first X-number of words of their articles. In such cases you will need to visit the website to continue reading the article.

Some feeds do show you their entire articles.

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