The RSS feed is currently being gated by cloudflare as well, which means that any RSS scraper that doesn't include a cloudflare workaround won't be able to access it. This seems like something that shouldn't be under the DDOS protection, as it kind of invalidates having RSS feeds to begin with, but I'm not sure how you could do that, while still being protected from DDOS (since I don't know how cloudflare works).