[YouTube] Subscriptions and Channel pages do not fetch content from Videos/Live tabs

[natewind]

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Affected version

0.28.6

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Go to a channel page.
2. Stay on the Videos tab or switch to Live.

Expected behavior

Videos are shown.

Actual behavior

Infinite spinner.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

Screen_Recording_20260521_040748_NewPipe.mp4

Logs

No response

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 16

Affected device model

Samsung A26

Additional information

Probably related: current live streams disappeared from the feed.

[solomongrundy6]

Subscriptions also aren't updating. YouTube changed something, all the youtube apps are broken now.

[natewind]

Hmm, subscriptions still update for me if the progress bar isn’t lying.

[dougpanders-sudo]

I'm suffering from the same bug

[Whistrock]

Also been having channels not load at all on FreeTube as well for the past few hours [TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'metadata_parts')]. I've thought it was a FreeTube thing until i've just opened NewPipe and this showed up. I think YouTube changed something again.

[Enterprise76]

Same here. Clicking the RSS button on a chanel page in New Pipe returns a 404 error. The XML feed from YouTube has been changed, shut down, or is otherwise offline.

[Kartoffelsaft]

Hmm, subscriptions still update for me if the progress bar isn’t lying.

The progress bar is lying. That, or ~350 channels all decided not to upload in the past 16 hours.

[torriem]

Youtube's RSS feed goes down every afternoon/evening and has for weeks/months/years. Annoying. If yesterday was any indication, it will come back tomorrow.

As for the change YouTube made, it has broken FreeTube too. Deliberately I'm sure.

[roryyamm]

I think they're finally getting rid of their RSS feeds. Was bound to happen eventually - too easy to use such a feed to get what you want to watch without doing anything YouTube wants you to do.

[GamerGirlandCo]

I think they're finally getting rid of their RSS feeds. Was bound to happen eventually - too easy to use such a feed to get what you want to watch without doing anything YouTube wants you to do.

i can access the xml subscription feeds just fine, albeit with a direct link.

example 1 example 2