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by jessaustin 4364 days ago
Why can't I subscribe to a feed for this blog? I was going to blame NewsBlur, but upon viewing source I don't see link rels for anything but the favicons and stylesheet. I thought for a moment that I might just give them my email address, but then they pulled a bizarre "Looks like you have cookies disabled" out of some orifice. A: I don't. B: why would you need cookies to post a form?
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Zapier co-founder here, thanks for pointing this out!

We do have a feed (https://zapier.com/engineering/feeds/latest/) but we I think we need to add a meta tag for NewsBlur/readers to pick up on it. We'll do this!

We use CSRF protection across all POSTs/PUTs, so cookies are generally required. I'll look into removing this for certain forms (like blog subscribe, fairly safe me thinks!).

Thanks again!

Thanks for being responsive! Now that you point it out I realize I could have just clicked on the shuttlecock icon, whoops.

I'm not certain what could have caused the cookie problem, since I've just gotten that same error message on a different device, neither of which actually have cookies turned off. (For instance, my HN cookies seem to be working fine...)

Yeah, I'm not sure either. I'll look into it.