Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

Yet unlike the 20+ other websites that I can just copy the main url into NetNewsWire, it doesn’t seem to have an RSS feed…

This particular button is quite visible on the webpage

With NetNewsWire even when you go to URL from the link

https://imgur.com/a/DkifnBG

<https://rachelbythebay.com/w/feed/>

(Under the RSS icon.)

Perhaps you should either file a bug with NetNewsWire, or debug NetNewsWire and submit a PR so it works with her blog.

Other posters mentioned her IP block - I wouldn't be surprised if that was the cause since automated netnewswire traffic might easily be confused with abuse.

So we are now going back to special casing websites that don’t follow standards like the IE6 days?

Do you need special-casing to recognise

   <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/w/atom.xml">
?

Using the link given from the website

https://imgur.com/a/DkifnBG

The w3.org validator says that https://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml is a valid Atom 1.0 feed (https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fra...).

It does seem like something's off about the feed. Vienna can read the file, but it comes up empty. But it doesn't seem like the problem is standards non-compliance.

There have been a variety of posts semi-recently about a “feed reader score” project, and maybe NNW is particularly misbehaved?

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/12/10/feed/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/12/17/packets/

NNW works for every other site that has an RSS feed and someone else just commented that while it’s a valid atom feed, when they try to use it in another newsreader, they get an empty result