YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

Post by praisewhitey » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:29 PM UTC

Dylan16807 wrote: post #47

> Nobody asked for shorts in their feed > if we add a feed to specifically follow the channel's full-length, higher quality video content, that's what we want to see. Shorts are the opposite of that. They're impulse content, designed for infinite scroll, not for a feed reader I'm officially asking for it. On the channels I'm subscribing to , nothing is wrong with the shorts except the UI covering up part of the video…

Post by Narishma » Wed, May 06, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC

sheept wrote: post #17

ajdude wrote: post #4

> Nobody asked for shorts in their feed This has been a big issue for me. I currently use RSS exclusively to view the YouTube channels that I'm subscribed to -- currently about 75 channels (and 27 nebula channels) -- and over half of my YouTube feeds are filled with several shorts (sometimes multiple ones by the same creator per day). Looking for hashtags in the title and marking those videos as read is essentially m…

Out of curiosity, are you filtering out shorts because of YouTube's terrible Shorts UI, or solely because of shorts' content quality?

Post by aendruk » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC

  GET /blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken HTTP/1.1
  Host: openrss.org

  HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
  Cache-Control: public,max-age=1200
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 18:06:13 GMT
  Retry-After: 1162
  Server: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)

  [empty page]

Post by xyst » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:42 PM UTC

account42 wrote: post #84

Please don't remind Google that they still have RSS feeds, they'll just kill them entirely.

Post by tim-projects » Wed, May 06, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC