I had what I thought was a bug but I figured it out. I installed this program once I read that it supports rss news feeds from newspapers. Cool. After installing the program, with a bit of problem with drivers, I got it set up and tried to download the NYT. It just sat there and waited, with progress stating unavailable. I could not figure out how to cancel this so I simply turned the program off. I tried it again with the Newsweek feed. Exact same error.
I realize now, after looking through the code, is that I am in China. The Chinese government, in their benevolent wisdom, has blocked access to newsfeeds, which is probably why it just hung up. Since it could not get access to the sites, it just kept on trying and trying. Frustrating, but not the software fault.
Or I could be wrong about all of this but I don't think so. Is there any way to stop this gathering of rss feeds without having to turn the program off? Or will it finally time out once it can not access the site? I can receive some rss feeds as long as they do not have certain words in their url, like rss and such. I might try to figure out how to add an rss feed myself, one that does not use a forbidden url to see if it will work.
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