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Failed to fetch RSS feed.

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bug platform: desktop
Dominant language
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Description

Platform

Desktop - macOS

Describe the bug

Unable to add the RSS URL, showing a 406 error.

Entry ID

No response

Relevant Information

Feed URL:

https://www.uber.com/blog/engineering/rss/

Error:

Feed fetch error: [GET] "https://www.uber.com/blog/engineering/rss/": 406 Not Acceptable
Reproduction Video

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Environment
Environment

App Version: 0.7.0
OS: macOS
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Folo/0.7.0 Chrome/138.0.7204.97 Electron/37.2.0 Safari/537.36
Env: electron
Browser: Chrome
Session Trace Id: Zloku5mEwLYkkWzyBp4cU
Mode: production
Renderer: 0.7.0

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Research direction

No repository file or test is named. Start by reproducing the failure while adding the provided Uber RSS URL and tracing the feed-fetch entry point that produces the 406 error; done means the URL can be added successfully without regressing other feed imports.

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Assessment

Tech stack
electron, typescript
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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