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samplifieron Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

I've noticed that Old Reddit still supports RSS feeds without returning a 403 error. This is in contrast to the main site, which often blocks RSS requests.

Here are some DNS details:

The main Reddit site (www.reddit.com) uses Fastly. Old Reddit (old.reddit.com) also uses Fastly. However, the "vomit" address (which often returns 403s for RSS requests) uses AWS DNS. Is Old Reddit not behind Cloudflare, or is there another reason why it handles RSS requests differently?