RainerBielefeldNG wrote:
Hi all,
on <https://www.oepnvbs.de/> I observe a problem with subscribing to a
feed.
1. Kommentar-Feed
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Comment feed works, click on the feed symbol and selecting
"Kommentar-Feed" subscribes to feed, it appears in Feed List with name
"Kommentare für". That's an unintuitive name, but it works.
Strange: I have been used to see a list of entries and a button
[Subscribe] which needs to be clicked to subscribe, that one ismissing
here.
I don't usually use RSS feeds, so no idea whether what I see is the
expected behaviour. SeaMonkey 2.53.3 on Linux Mint...
Following the steps above, I get a page of posts, titled "Kommentare
für". Above that is a yellow box with options to subscribe:
- A dropdown to use News & Blogs, Live Bookmarks, etc.
- A tick-box to "always use <selected option> to subscribe to feeds"
- A button to "Subscribe Now"
Is that what you're expecting to see? Clicking "Subscribe Now" with
"News & Blogs" selected adds a "Blogs & News Feeds" account in Mail &
News, with a "Kommentare für" folder into which posts are downloaded.
Maybe you'd previously selected the "always use" box, so now you don't
get offered the option? Check the action for "Web Feed" at Edit >
Preferences > Browser > Helper Applications. "Preview in SeaMonkey"
seems to be the default.
Or perhaps this has changed in SeaMonkey 2.53.5 (going by your
user-agent header). I think Firefox was dropping support for RSS feeds,
so perhaps that's had some effect (though I think it was removed from a
later Firefox version than SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on).
2. Posting Feed
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Click on the feed symbol and selecting "Feed" does not subscribe to
feed, I get message "https://www.oepnvbs.de/feed/ is not a valid feed".
I believe that that worked 1 time this morning, but may be I made a
mistake?
Strange: I have been used to see a list of entries and a button
[Subscribe] which needs to be clicked to subscribe, that one ismissing
here.
Here I get the same as I did above - a list of posts and an option to
subscribe. However, clicking the option to subscribe adds the "Blogs &
News Feeds" account in Mail & News but *doesn't* add a folder for this
feed. I guess that could, as you suggest below, be because the feed has
no title for it to use as the folder name.
I don't get any message about it not being a valid feed, but perhaps
your current default handler is something other than "News & Blogs". Or
perhaps your slightly newer version shows an error message, rather than
just silently failing to add the feed.
Comparison with other feed readers:
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WINDOWS standalone feed reader QuietRSS subscribes to both feeds and
lists plausible number of entries
blogtrottr.com is able to subscribe to both feeds, because of hourly
update I will have to wait for results. Here the Posting feed is listed
as "(Untitled feed)", may be that missing title causes the problem for
SeaMonkey?
--
Mark.
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