[kevincox]

Cloudflare's default settings are very hostile to RSS feeds in general. They block these as part of bot blocking. Which of course is silly because these are intended to be accessed by bots. Even Cloudflare's blog RSS feed is affected by this.

[prdonahue]

I agree this is a problem, and we're actively working to fix it.

Specifically, there's a ticket in progress to improve how bot mitigation handles requests for certain types of static content (including RSS feeds).

[kevincox]

Good to hear. It seems to me that more or less all static content should be exampt because it can be cached so serving it doesn't cost the origin anything.

Of course there are ways to bypass the cache with bogus URL parameters that make this difficult and some customers that are concerned with scraping even if that content is "static".