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The RSS feed for https://www.stackstatus.net/ seems to be running through a security check. It returns a 403 forbidden with the body running some JS which then returns/redirects to the actual RSS.

This works in a browser. However RSS is normally consumed by a reader app, expecting RSS/Atom format XML to parse and will not run JS.

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    It also appears that a related issue happens in Safari on iOS, latest version. After visiting stackstatus.net and refreshing the page, the back button seems to be stuck. It redirects back to the security check page almost instantly, making it appear unresponsive. This is indeed most likely caused by the site using a JS-based security challenge that manipulates the browser history state. Commented Mar 21, 2025 at 9:57

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It seems to be worse than this– the feed URL is different altogether, which has presumably broken many a reader; it definitely broke mine:

access log timeline from my RSS feeder showing success up until 3/13 at 14:19

On 3/13, via the log from my reader above, the page was fine, then spit back 403 forbidden with no content, and now it spits back 553 and shows a "not found" page when attempting to access it in-browser:

404 page with ghosts on it

The original URL I have saved, and which Internet Archive confirms was the one on the page before the design change, is https://www.stackstatus.net/data/rss.xml. Now, the page gives https://www.stackstatus.net/history.rss, which contains the scripting and fails to load in my reader.

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This appears to have been fixed. No error reported in my RSS reader.

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