As designed RSS feed contains invalid@example.com in author field

[lantek]

Not sure if this is a bug or still part of the development phase, but the RSS feed here on Xenforo and in the RC1 distribution contains the text invalid@example.com in the author field.

 

[Mike]

It's intentional. It was added to validate better with the RSS spec (which requires a particular format).

 

[lantek]

It's intentional. It was added to validate better with the RSS spec (which requires a particular format).

Is there any easy way to remove that? We do an automated import of the RSS and the new format is causing issues. Thanks.

 

[Mike]

You would need to modify the code to remove it. (It is worth noting that the previous method did not totally follow the spec and caused problems in other scenarios.)

 

[1im]

How can one edit the email of it @Mike ?

Change "invalid@example.com"

to "feeder@example.com"

 

[Donny]

Yeah this doesn't seem very XF. lol
I've just noticed this. Why isn't it picking up the email of the username it's quoting right next to it?

 

[Mike]

We don't -- and won't -- publish emails of people that sign up for a forum. Hence, there's no email to publish.

 

[Daniel Hood]

I've just noticed this. Why isn't it picking up the email of the username it's quoting right next to it?

There'd be literally nothing stopping someone from creating a crawler that goes through all your feeds periodically and build a mailing list based off your site. I'm glad XenForo does it this way. Although maybe displaying username@siteurl.com (with the username and the site url being legit) which either starts a conversion with the user or forwards to their real email would be cool.

 

[Donny]

There'd be literally nothing stopping someone from creating a crawler that goes through all your feeds periodically and build a mailing list based off your site. I'm glad XenForo does it this way. Although maybe displaying username@siteurl.com (with the username and the site url being legit) which either starts a conversion with the user or forwards to their real email would be cool.

I see I see.