I’m using NewsGator to keep up to date with the forum via RSS, and it seems to continuously download the same threads.  It turns out each time someone adds to a thread it downloads again.  I contacted the vendor for Newsgator and they’ve looked into the issue to make sure it wasn’t their product.  According to them it’s the feed itself.  I’ve posted their response below in the hopes that it will make sense to someone else:

Hi Tom,

It looks like the problem is as follows.  Whenever a new post is added for a particular topic in that feed, ALL of the posts for that topic get updated to say something like

“Topic Replies: 4”

When a new post is added, all of the old ones in that thread get updated to show the new number of replies.

Since the feed doesn’t use the RSS <guid> element, there isn’t any way for NewsGator to tell that the items updated in this fashion aren’t new elements; so it shows them again.  The option you’ve disabled, about modified posts, will only work for feeds that support <guid> - so it won’t help on this feed.

Unfortunately, for this feed, I don’t think there is anything you’re going to be able to do, other than convincing the feed publisher to change things around a bit.  Ideally, they should stop updating old items when new items are added, and further, they should switch to RSS 2.0 and use the <guid> element.

Is this anything that can be changed [easily]?  :D

Thanks again,

Tom

Yeah, I’ve been aware of the problem for a while now and am still looking into it. As a Newsgator user as well it can be somewhat frustrating to get multiple repeat entries.

I’ve contacted the author of this mod and am hoping to get some help regarding a fix. RSS is not a standard feature of the BBS so a mod/hack had to be made to do it.

So, hopefully it will be righted soon.

Ok, I made a small fix to the code and hopefully you can help me out with this.

Please modify your settings to:

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/sonytr/rss.php?t=1

And see if your news reader works better and only returns the “last” updated post. Thanks.

Ugh, hold off on doing that. Upon further examination of the code, i see where some of the issues lie. I’m going to rewrite it and also convert the RSS feed to a 2.0 version to make things a lot cleaner. Sorry about all of this. It will take a few days to do as I have a few other things on my plate but I will let you all know when the new and improved RSS 2.0 support is complete.

Ok, I think the RSS feed problem is fixed. I will need some feedback from you guys. I have upgraded the feed to RSS 2.0 so it should work pretty well. Thanks for bearing with me on this…

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