NPP RSS Feed broken?

LagunaJim

I’ve been getting an error for about a week accessing the NPP RSS feed. I’m getting “Feed not found - Wrong feed URL or dead feed” in Feedly.

Anybody else?

Does NPP auto-check for updates? I’ve always updated based on RSS feed letting me know…

PeterJones

@LagunaJim ,

I don’t use it myself, but when I go to to the main website and click on the RSS link, it takes me to https://notepad-plus-plus.org/index.xml, which looks like a reasonable RSS feed.

Does NPP auto-check for updates

Yes, it automatically checks for updates, unless you’ve turned off that option. But note that, as it says in the NPP User Manual > Upgrading page – specifically, “No new version found: safety delay” – the automatic update is only triggered on a release once the developer is confident that a release is stable.

The Downloads page now updates the title of the most recent version to have been triggered for auto-update. For example, right now, it shows:

This means that while v8.7.1 has been released, it hasn’t been triggered for auto-update, so v8.7 is still the one that Notepad++'s ? > Update Notepad++ will see.

LagunaJim

@PeterJones Thanks for your reply!

Ok I believe I’ve determined that for some reason only FEEDLY is being blocked / failing.

I’ll reach out to them, but possibly did their system make too many requests in a given time period and get suspended/blocked?

Thx.

PeterJones

@LagunaJim ,

only FEEDLY is being blocked / failing.
I’ll reach out to them

makes sense.

possibly did their system make too many requests in a given time period and get suspended/blocked

I mean, possibly. But from what I know of such RSS-aggregator services like feedly or podcast readers, they have caching on their end, to avoid just such an occurrence, so I find it highly unlikely that they would have sent levels of requests sufficient to be blocked. The best is just to reach out to them and tell them that you can see that RSS feed just fine manually, but Feedly is failing to grab the RSS feed, and let them figure it out.

LagunaJim

@PeterJones sadly their free account inc;ludes zero tech support contact. May jump to another reader - tested with ‘feeder’ and the npp feed is fine :)