diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b7a83d5..4cdc407 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Fixed
 
 - A publisher's correction to an item already in iPX, a retitled episode, mended text, new artwork or a fixed length, arrives on the next read. Since 0.9.1 an item kept what it first said: Ain't It Cool News's items each showed the text of the one before, long after the feed was fixed.
+- A feed's page in the Directory says when the feed is failing, and why, and no longer says nobody here subscribes to a feed someone does.
 
 ## [0.10.1] - 2026-10-05
 
diff --git a/src/web.rs b/src/web.rs
index 41c3dd1..43ec937 100644
--- a/src/web.rs
+++ b/src/web.rs
@@ -1024,9 +1024,17 @@ struct ListedItem {
 struct Listed {
     /// What the feed says it is (#130), sanitized as its items are.
     description: Option<String>,
+    /// Why its last check failed, when it did (#142), in the words a feed's own page uses.
+    failing: Option<String>,
     items: Vec<ListedItem>,
 }
 
+/// A feed's last error as its Directory page says it: explained, or that the check failed, never
+/// the error as it stands, which can name the feed's address, and the Directory names none.
+fn failure_words(err: &str) -> String {
+    crate::feed::explain_failure(err).map_or_else(|| "Its last check failed.".to_owned(), |f| f.reason.to_owned())
+}
+
 /// A listed feed's description and latest twenty items. Only a feed the Directory lists, so a
 /// guessed id reaches nothing private, as `subscribe_popular` checks.
 async fn get_listed(
@@ -1041,6 +1049,7 @@ async fn get_listed(
     let rows = state.ctx.db.entries_in(user.id, Some(&id), crate::db::Filter::parse("all"), None, 0, 20, &order).await?;
     let mut sanitizer = feed_sanitizer();
     let description = state.ctx.db.feed_description(&id).await?.map(|d| clean_description(&mut sanitizer, &d, None));
+    let failing = state.ctx.db.feed_summary(&id).await?.last_error.as_deref().map(failure_words);
     let items = rows
         .into_iter()
         .map(|e| ListedItem {
@@ -1052,7 +1061,7 @@ async fn get_listed(
             duration: e.duration,
         })
         .collect();
-    Ok(Json(Listed { description, items }))
+    Ok(Json(Listed { description, failing, items }))
 }
 
 fn sort_name(p: &PopularRow) -> String {
@@ -1146,6 +1155,14 @@ impl IntoResponse for ApiError {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    #[test]
+    fn a_failing_feed_says_why_in_the_directory_without_its_address() {
+        assert_eq!(failure_words("the feed's address answered with nothing at all"), "This address answers with nothing; the site may be gone.");
+        // reqwest names the URL; the Directory names none.
+        let raw = "error sending request for url (http://daily-quests.com/comic/?feed=atom): connection closed";
+        assert_eq!(failure_words(raw), "Its last check failed.");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn a_relative_image_resolves_against_the_post() {
         let mut b = feed_sanitizer();
diff --git a/web/app.css b/web/app.css
index 1364522..0b504f3 100644
--- a/web/app.css
+++ b/web/app.css
@@ -717,6 +717,7 @@ body.scan-this .fhead [data-a=scan] .i,body.scan-any .fhead [data-a=scanall] .i,
 .show .meta{min-width:0;flex:1;display:flex;flex-direction:column;align-items:flex-start;gap:5px}
 .show h2{margin:0 0 2px;font-size:30px;line-height:1.15;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:-.02em;overflow-wrap:anywhere}
 .show .sub{margin:0;color:var(--dim);font-size:13px;font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums}
+.show .dfail{color:var(--bad)}
 .show .acts{margin-top:8px}
 .dlink{padding:0;font-size:13px;color:var(--accent);text-align:left}
 .dlink:hover{text-decoration:underline}
diff --git a/web/src/dialogs.ts b/web/src/dialogs.ts
index 2dc5bed..449291f 100644
--- a/web/src/dialogs.ts
+++ b/web/src/dialogs.ts
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ function drawDirectory(box=$('#directory'), focus?: string){
         // Its category's page is one click away from here.
         show.category?`<button type="button" class="dlink" data-go="${esc(show.category)}">${esc(show.subcategory||show.category)}</button>`:''}
         <p class="sub">${n?`${n} ${n===1?'person here subscribes':'people here subscribe'}`:'Nobody here subscribes yet'}</p>
+        <p class="sub dfail" id="dfail" hidden></p>
         <div class="acts"><button class="btn ico primary" data-a="sub" title="Subscribe" aria-label="Subscribe">${ICON.plus}</button></div></div></div>
       <div class="about" id="dabout" hidden><p></p><button type="button" class="dlink" aria-expanded="false" hidden>More</button></div>`
       +sec(show.podcast?'Latest episodes':'Latest posts','<div class="latest" id="dshow"><p class="hint">Loading…</p></div>');
@@ -217,6 +218,8 @@ async function fillShow(box,p){
       more.textContent=open?'Less':'More'; more.setAttribute('aria-expanded',String(open));
     };
   }
+  // A broken feed says so, or it reads as a quiet one (#142).
+  if(got.failing){ const f=$('#dfail',box); f.textContent=got.failing; f.hidden=false; }
   const items=got.items;
   list.innerHTML=items.length?items.map(e=>{
     const name=entryName(e), text=name.derived?'':plainText(e.description).slice(0,500);
@@ -224,7 +227,8 @@ async function fillShow(box,p){
     return `<article class="lep"><b>${e.link?`<a href="${esc(e.link)}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">${esc(name.text)}</a>`:esc(name.text)}</b>`
       +(text?`<p>${esc(text)}</p>`:'')
       +(when.length?`<small>${when.map(s=>`<span>${s}</span>`).join('<span class="dot"></span>')}</small>`:'')+'</article>';
-  }).join(''):`<p class="hint">Nothing read from it yet. A feed nobody here subscribes to is checked once a day.</p>`;
+  }).join(''):`<p class="hint">Nothing read from it yet.${p.subscribers||got.failing?''
+    :' A feed nobody here subscribes to is checked once a day.'}</p>`;
 }
 
 /// A category as a tile: its name, how many feeds, and the covers of its three most subscribed