The biggest cause of broken feeds for me is actually Cloudflare challenges on the feed URL.

Or they could just use a modern webserver setup? Manually updating certs on webservers in 2025 is just a massive waste of time.

Also of the opinion many a personal site being dynamic is less than ideal. How many outdated php sites I've seen hijacked, ruined when their hosting service updates things behind their back, run into resource related issues, caching bodges that go wrong, etc. Meanwhile the site maybe gets updates like once a week.

At the very least the RSS feed certainly shouldnt need to be generated on every request unless theres good reason.

Well aware my complaints yelling at the void as many just want a prebuilt solution which 'just works', even if it requires a LAMP stack.

I’ve been trying to work out a new approach to newsreaders for a couple years now, and have all but given up on RSS. The standard needs to improve in significant ways — most notably with discoverability — if it ever wants to get back to the Google Reader “glory days”.

I’ve tried reporting bugs to rags like The New Yorker and The Atlantic, each one is a a black hole. Unless you can make a case for helping monetization, they don’t care at all, and I can’t say I blame them.