Fixed Subforum RSS: pubDate changes "randomly" (on reply?)

Cyberkef

Member
Affected version
2.3.0
We use a RSS bot on Discord that is subscribed to https://xenforo.com/community/forums/announcements/index.rss and https://xenforo.com/community/forums/have-you-seen/index.rss.

Since xenforo.com runs on 2.3, the second feed gets bumped with "new content that is only seconds/minutes old" pretty often (but they are all old and existing threads), while the first feed works perfectly.

Since the first feed is a read-only subforum (no replies) and the second subforum does get new replies often, is it possible the RSS pubDate per thread is wrongly configured (last_post_date instead of post_date)?
 
Thank you for reporting this issue, it has now been resolved. We are aiming to include any changes that have been made in a future XF release (2.2.14).

Change log:
Always set thread RSS publication dates to the creation date of the thread
There may be a delay before changes are rolled out to the XenForo Community.
 
Just wanted to note that you can also add ?order=post_date to the feed URL to order results by their post date rather than the date of the last post.
 
Thanks for the fix Jeremy!

Just wanted to note that you can also add ?order=post_date to the feed URL to order results by their post date rather than the date of the last post.

Some websites/software packages (I'm 100% sure Wordpress does this) add this as a second "reactions" RSS feed explicitly [COLOR=hsl(var(--xf-editorFocusColor))]on the applicable pages. Could be an option if people don't know about this function?[/COLOR]
 
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