Tag: rss troubleshooting

RSS troubleshooting is the work of finding out why a feed is not updating, shows broken images or is rejected by a reader or automation tool. Typical causes include invalid XML, missing dates or links, caching that serves an old version, blocked access for bots and images that are too small or missing from the feed. A broken feed quietly stops every service that depends on it, so problems can go unnoticed for days. PostRSS, the auto-posting service from Internet Solutions, checks feeds frequently and keeps a history of what was posted, which makes gaps easy to spot. When items do not appear, the history and feed settings show where the chain stopped. For websites we build and host, our developers can fix feed output at the source, and our server administrators can adjust caching or access rules.