Troubleshooting

Updates aren't being detected

Open Help → About Feaster to see the current version. The app polls the update server every few hours; you can also force a check from the Feaster menu.

If the update server is unreachable, the desktop app falls back gracefully and keeps working.

A feed isn't refreshing

Open the feed in the sidebar and click Refresh in the list header.
If that fails, copy the feed URL from Edit feed and open it in a browser to confirm the publisher hasn't moved or removed the feed.
If the URL still works in a browser but not in Feaster, file an issue with the feed URL — there may be a parser quirk worth fixing.

Auto-discovery didn't find a feed

The site may not advertise its feed via the standard <link rel="alternate"> tag. Try common paths manually:

/feed, /rss, /rss.xml, /atom.xml, /feed.xml, /index.xml
Substack: /feed
Ghost: /rss/
WordPress: /feed/ or /?feed=rss2

If you find the feed URL, paste it into the Add feed flow and continue.

My KB feels cluttered

A few habits help:

Use archive liberally — entries you don't need now stay searchable but don't appear in active views.
Set per-feed auto-tags so saves are pre-categorized.
Turn on Require note when saving for two weeks. The friction will retrain what you save.

Where is my data stored?

macOS — ~/Library/Application Support/Feaster
Windows — %APPDATA%\Feaster

The SQLite database is feaster.db. Back it up like any other file.

Still stuck?

Email hello@feaster.app with your OS version, Feaster version, and a description of what you saw. Screenshots help.