Ask HN: How to unblock RSS feeds on Cloudflare hosted sites?

My blog[1] is hosted on Cloudflare pages. Fee of my readers complained that they’re unable to add my blog in multiple rss readers. Any ideas to bypass this ?

[1] https://rishikeshs.com

27 points | by rishikeshs 8 hours ago

3 comments

  • badlibrarian 7 hours ago
    65 days ago: "My email is [email protected]. I'd like to hear from the owners of RSS readers directly on what they are experiencing. Going to ask team to take a closer look."

    Nothing happened?

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41864632

  • _kyran 7 hours ago
    Use a page rule for the URL pattern of the RSS feeds, and set the bot protection to off.
    • kevincox 7 hours ago
      Exactly this. You want to turn off bot blocking on all endpoints that are intended to be used by bots.

      Really you should probably turn it off for just about everything on your site unless you are worried about scraping.

    • jsheard 7 hours ago
      I wonder why CF doesn't disable bot protection on RSS feeds by default. They're supposed to be readable by bots, that's the whole point!
      • KETHERCORTEX 6 hours ago
        I guess they don't really care that much to implement all the possible exceptions.
    • rishikeshs 2 hours ago
      I can’t find an option for turning bot protection off in the drop down.

      Does turning off browser integration works?

  • Beijinger 7 hours ago
    Do yourself a favor and don't use cloudflare: https://expatcircle.com/cms/why-you-should-never-use-cloudfl...

    I am currently thinking about signing up to https://politepol.com/en/prices It can circumvent the Cloudflare blockage of some blogs where I want to subscribe to the RSS feed. Clownflare is the cancer of the internet.

    Worse, even if you don't use it, some wordpress plug-ins seem to use it. You can see if you use the no-script extension. I just threw out a plug-in that I found always suspicious. I think it may have been one cause why my pictures did not index well on google. It seemed to use alicdn without even bother to mention this. WTF?

    • chomp 7 hours ago
      So many inaccuracies in that article, I don’t know why you bothered linking it. You could have just made the privacy/single point of failure/web monoculture argument and tossed the rest.
      • Beijinger 6 hours ago
        This is just another one. What are the inaccuracies? I wonder if there is registrar that uses Cloudflare. This would be the ultimate point of failure.

        Yes, some problems can be solved, e.g. the non-indexing of pictures. But this requires a paid account. Face it. Most people use it as a cheapo CDN. And it is just not worth it.

        Many plug-ins are incompatible with cloudflare, e.g. Multisite. You will basically start building your site around cloudflare.