RSS in Ghost 6.4 working? Not working?

Using Ghost
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My blog is hosted here on Ghost. I’m using build 6.7.0-0-gd8509ecf+moya
A reader told me, “If it was RSS enabled I’d immediately add it to my feed!” and I thought it was enabled. I mean, I don’t see any options for controlling this feature at least.

I have visitors coming from inoreader.com, so I think it is working. I signed up for inoreader and did get it to link up to my rss at https://stonetools.ghost.io/rss though it didn’t work at first. It wasn’t seen as a valid RSS feed until I “searched” for it? I don’t know that service whatsoever, so I don’t have details on that.

But I installed Feedreader for Windows and put in the URL and nothing. I couldn’t get an RSS feed at all. If I visit that RSS address, Firefox downloads a text file.

I’m an RSS newbie to say the least, but being told that someone who enjoys RSS couldn’t get my site feed is more the point, I guess.

Is there something I’m supposed to do to make this work?

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Firefox will always download the XML file for RSS.

Hop on Google Chrome and you’ll see the XML file on the browser without it being downloaded.

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Most feed readers use the alternate link tag in your page’s <head>…</head> element to discover a feed. You can inspect the html source for your homepage to check if your theme supports this. It should look something like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/rss">

It is also possible to optionally disable RSS feeds for a channel or controller in your routes.yaml file with the rss: false property. URLs & Dynamic Routing - Ghost Developer Docs

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There’s a bug in feed generation open over on GitHub, along with a workaround if you can edit the theme. I don’t have the link handy (on my phone), but it shouldn’t be too hard to find, in @tryghost/ghost

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Here’s the link :wink:

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