RSS Feed Stopped Working

[soxprospects]

Forum URL: forum.soxprospects.com/

Hello!  My forum is forum.soxprospects.com/ or soxprospects.proboards.com/

For several years I have an RSS feed of my forum running on my larger website www.soxprospects.com (halfway down the right column). The RSS feed I'm using is forum.soxprospects.com/rss/public/board/4.

No changes on my end (I don't think), but yesterday the feed stopped working. It says "Oops! Something went wrong. It seems to be an invalid feed."

Any ideas? Anything change on the ProBoards side? Something messed up on my side?

[Scott]

soxprospects - I'm not aware of anything, but I've made an inquiry with our systems team.

[soxprospects]

FWIW when I test the RSS feed the reader says "line 1, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:0: no element found"

[Scott]

soxprospects - is it any better now?

[soxprospects]

Unfortunately no - I still get the same error message.

[Scott]

soxprospects - hopefully all good now?

[soxprospects]

Unfortunately no - but thank you for continuing to try!

[Scott]

soxprospects - do you know what IPs are being used to access the RSS info?

[soxprospects]

Sorry I'm not sure I know the answer to that. I use a website call feedwind as my aggregator, pointing to the URL forum.soxprospects.com/rss/public/board/4. Feedwind continues to work for my other RSS feeds like Google Blogger. I use validator.w3.org to check. The latest response is:

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

line 1, column 238: Self reference doesn't match document location [help]

... rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://forum.soxprospects. ...

[Derek‽]

Aug 10, 2024 9:57:59 GMT -8 soxprospects said:

Sorry I'm not sure I know the answer to that. I use a website call feedwind as my aggregator, pointing to the URL forum.soxprospects.com/rss/public/board/4. Feedwind continues to work for my other RSS feeds like Google Blogger. I use validator.w3.org to check. The latest response is:

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

line 1, column 238: Self reference doesn't match document location [help]

... rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://forum.soxprospects. ...

This particular issue is caused by ProBoards not using the proper URL in their atom tag. The feed-generating code apparently wasn't updated to reflect the fact that PB now serves all files via HTTPS, which produces a feed URL that doesn't match the URL in the href attribute. "Self" cannot be used as a link relationship unless the URL being referenced matches the URL of the current feed, which the validator can plainly see that it doesn't.

Also, you were using the wrong URL for the RSS feed. Forums only have one general feed, none that are board-specific. Adding /board/4 to the end of the URL will also give that error (but PB still needs to make their change too, as it affects all forums' feeds).

This is unlikely to be the cause of your feed reader issue given your other error message. I won't speculate as it may not be helpful, but I did want to take a moment to explain the validator's message.

[jazlrc]

Just chiming in to say that we've been having the same issue with our forum feed, as detailed in the replies to this thread here. I'm also finding that validators don't accept our forum's RSS URL as valid, but it still works on WordPress oddly enough.

[🎶Sossity🎶]

Aug 11, 2024 10:00:06 GMT -8 jazlrc said:

Just chiming in to say that we've been having the same issue with our forum feed, as detailed in the replies to this thread here. I'm also finding that validators don't accept our forum's RSS URL as valid, but it still works on WordPress oddly enough.

jazlrc  In order to avoid confusion with responses (and issues may be similar but not always exactly the same)we ask that you please either start your own thread or continue with any you may already have.
Thank you.

[jazlrc]

Aug 11, 2024 10:36:12 GMT -8 🎶Sossity🎶 said:

Aug 11, 2024 10:00:06 GMT -8 jazlrc said:

Just chiming in to say that we've been having the same issue with our forum feed, as detailed in the replies to this thread here. I'm also finding that validators don't accept our forum's RSS URL as valid, but it still works on WordPress oddly enough.

jazlrc  In order to avoid confusion with responses (and issues may be similar but not always exactly the same)we ask that you please either start your own thread or continue with any you may already have.
Thank you.

my bad!

[soxprospects]

For the record, that URL worked without any issues for ~3 years until last week

[Chris]

Aug 12, 2024 10:23:45 GMT -8 W3C Validation Service said:

 Feed Validation Service

Check the syntax of Atom or RSS feeds

forum.soxprospects.com/rss/public/
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