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Medical Xpress news feed isn't working anymore

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Description

Platform

Desktop - macOS

Describe the bug

What's going on?
For the last couple of days, the news from Medical Xpress has completely stopped updating in my Folo app. It's just empty or shows an error.

I get my news from this link: https://medicalxpress.com/rss-feed/

What should happen?
The app should just show the latest medical news from Medical Xpress like it always used to.

What's happening instead?
The section for Medical Xpress is just blank. I checked the app's logs and it says "fetch failed" for that website, which I guess means it can't get the news.

Important detail:
I thought maybe the website was down, but I checked other news apps and they can still get the Medical Xpress feed just fine. So the problem isn't with Medical Xpress, it's something with how the Folo app is trying to get the news.

It started about 2 days ago. Thanks for looking into it

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure with https://medicalxpress.com/rss-feed/ and inspect the app logs for the reported "fetch failed" error. Compare the app's behavior with other news apps that still receive the feed; done means the Medical Xpress section displays the latest news again without the fetch error.

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Assessment

Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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