Alloy and RSS Feed Problem

One hint: You seem to be using secure and unsecure content for the Blog. Like the images-upload folder is not https. Perhaps that is why you get double entries?

@herbertkoeppel Iā€™ve combined your two forum threads since they were about the same topic.

As for your problem ā€“ when are the second set of posts appearing in your feed reader? Does this happen when you create a new blog post? When your feed reader checks for new posts?

When you updated / changed your post did you change the date on the post?

No, i do not change the date from the post.

Sorry, I canā€™t see any system behind it.
First you only see one post, then some time later new ones appear when you refresh the feed in the reader ā€¦

It is completely clear to me that if I entered a new date in the editor, the post would appear as a new one. But I donā€™t. The only thing that can happen is that I change a mistake that I have overlooked in the text, but that must not cause the post to be displayed a second time.

How did you check this? How could i set this folder to a secure folder? Does the https: is not valid for all files under the naturfotoworkshop.at ?

Iā€™m glad that somebody else is being shown that ā€¦

I do not know - I just saw this error and thought perhaps the feed is issued 2 times, one from https and one from httpā€¦

Doing some digging again. Have come up with something I think.

So the RSS feed asks for a time the post was published. Alloy doesnā€™t record the time a post is published because it doesnā€™t use or display that information. Currently for the feed I pull the fileā€™s timestamp to fill in that gap. This I think is where the trouble originates. It is turning the entire timestamp into a new date and time.

The reason it looks like duplicate posts is because every time you edit the file the saved file gets a new timestamp and the RSS feed thus gets a changed time stamp. Your reader thinks this is a new post, because it isnā€™t smart enough to tell the difference.

Iā€™m going to look at a way to change this behavior. I may just set the time to 00:00:00 for each post so only the date matters.

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That sounds interesting. But in the meantime I deleted all files and folders from my webspace via FTP.

Since I didnā€™t have the MD File Format in my head, of course I deleted all blog entries and I still had no backup of them. I hope my webspace provide has a backup, otherwise I can put all posts online again ā€¦

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Sorry that you deleted everything by mistake. That sounds horrible.

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Does your RRS feedreader has them stored in the Cache? Then you could copy and paste the text from itā€¦

Let me know if i can do anything to test it for youā€¦

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I have the last 5 on txt if you need themā€¦

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Iā€™ve just emailed you a test version.

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Thatā€™s very kind of you. Iā€™m guessing @herbertkoeppel will really appreciate that!

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Iā€™m glad to hear that youā€™ve tracked down this issue @elixirgraphics. Iā€™ve seen the same issue as @herbertkoeppel in that multiple posts keep re-appearing as ā€œnewā€ in my RSS reader for days and weeks after I update one of them. I donā€™t see any obvious pattern. Sometimes posts vanish for days and then reappear again. Eventually it seems to settle and they stop appearing.

I use Fiery Feeds for RSS reading, working through Feedbin.

I have seen this as well, now. I changed something in the article and see it twice in the reader. So I am happy for the fix as well :slight_smile:

Sorry, no good news. The fix didnā€™t fix the problem now. I already informed Adam today.

Letā€™s seeā€¦

Thanks for the info, I am sure Adam will find a solution :slight_smile: