Can't get RSS Polling to work

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Northern struggled for an extended period to get the RSS Polling plugin working on their self-hosted Discourse board, trying multiple feeds (including local and popular ones), varying configurations (with/without filters, different categories), and troubleshooting without success—no logs or errors appeared to help debug. Despite hosting on a reputable U.S.-based Debian VPS, nothing seemed to trigger posts. After leaving the setup overnight, Northern suddenly received 112 new posts, indicating the plugin had started working without any changes made—suggesting a delay or timing issue rather than a configuration fault. They concluded with lighthearted relief, attributing the fix to patience. The post includes a screenshot showing configured RSS feed URLs related to “Grand Theft Auto” with dropdowns and UI controls for managing them.

Hey fellas. I’m currently working on my board and have been fighting for longer than I’d care to admit trying to get the RSS Polling plugin to function. I have tried so many different RSS feeds at this point, with different users (all of which I know had permission to post to the forum, I even tried my own account).

Not only that, but I’ve tried with filters, without filters, and on very well-known, popular RSS feeds (URLs with .xml extensions ending them and some without), and even after letting several RSS feeds configured sit overnight, I’m getting nothing.

I’ve even tried hosting the feed .xml file locally, thinking maybe it was a connection issue or something, but I had no luck there, either.

To make matters worse, I can’t figure out any good way to debug this thing; nothing shows up in my logs and as far as I can tell, there are none elsewhere, either.

This is how I had it configured overnight when I left it. I had them set to different categories to make sure that wasn’t the issue, either. Does anybody have any insight into where I’m going wrong, or what I can do to try to narrow down the issue?

Also for clarification; I am self-hosting on a Debian VPS and I am hosting with a fairly large well-known company based in the U.S.

Thank you for your time!

Well.. Scratch this, I’m not sure why as I haven’t changed anything, but I suddenly just got 112 new posts, so I guess it’s working and I just needed patience. :laughing: