News / Announcements not showing in RSS Feed

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In a support thread titled “News / Announcements not showing in RSS Feed,” gbcox reports that posts in the “News & Announcements” category aren’t appearing in the RSS feed, suspecting it may be due to the category mirroring a mailing list. mattdm confirms that announcements, like the beta release, do appear in the feed at https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/news/5.rss. gbcox later realizes the issue is not with the feed itself, but with their RSS reader sorting by date — older posts (e.g., “Social Hour” dated April 2020) are being pushed to the bottom and overlooked. mattdm clarifies that these older posts aren’t reposted; only replies are added, which bumps them in the web interface but doesn’t update their original date in the feed. No fix is proposed, as this behavior stems from how Discourse handles post timestamps and RSS readers sort items.

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Here are the URLs from the page source:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Latest posts" href="[https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/posts.rss](view-source:https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/posts.rss)" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Latest topics" href="[https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/latest.rss](view-source:https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/latest.rss)" /> <link rel="alternate nofollow" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS feed of topics in the &#39;News &amp; Announcements&#39; category" href="[https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/news/5.rss](view-source:https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/news/5.rss)" />

When something is posted to news and announcements, it doesn’t show in the RSS feed. The Announcement/News is a mirror of a mailing list: Making sure you're not a bot!

Could that be the reason that it isn’t appearing in the feeds? If so, do you know of a good mitigation.

Thanks!

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Hmmmm. I’m seeing Announce List posts in News & Announcements - Fedora Discussion — specifically, the beta announcement…

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Ah, I see what is happening now. My reader sorts by date and some announcements use an old date (for example Social Hour dated April 2020), so these get pushed to the end of the feed and I don’t notice them. Not sure if there is a way to refresh the date to current when something is posted again or if its just a peculiarity of ttrss.

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Ah, yeah. I’m not reposting that, just adding replies, which causes Discourse to bump it on the web view.