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

[Cyberkef]

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)?

 

[XF Bug Bot]

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.

 

[Jeremy P]

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.

 

[Cyberkef]

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]