Re: Yahoo! News RSS Feeds Launched
Mark Fletcher <[email protected]>
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Jeremy Zawodny wrote: >Okay, as noted here: > > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000952.html > >They're up for real this time. > > > It looks like that the <link> for each item in the feed changes every time the feed is fetched. It looks like a tracking URL is being used, perhaps to correlate a link to a particular RSS fetch. I don't mind the tracking aspect, but because the link changes, Bloglines considers each item as being updated every time we fetch one of the feeds. We track which items each user has read, and when an item is updated, we treat it as an unread item. So users end up seeing items they've already read, over and over. Any chance of getting this changed? We could special case the Yahoo feeds. Or we could ignore changes to <link> tags in general. Both are doable, but suboptimal. As an aside, to other aggregator writers. Do other aggregators consider changes to <links> to indicate that an item has been updated? Thanks, Mark -- Mark Fletcher Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/