The discussion revolves around the missing new.rss feed on Meta Discourse, which was expected to provide a list of the newest topics regardless of replies. janbolmeson initially thought the feed should be publicly accessible but later realized it requires login and is tied to user-specific ‘new’ topics. sam clarifies that while the feed exists, it’s not available without login, and suggests using ?order=created to get topics ordered by creation date. Moin and sam explain how to generate RSS feeds for specific categories using the category ID and ?order=created, noting that this ensures stable ordering in feed readers. Jagster and others highlight the usefulness of such feeds for aggregating new topics across forums. simonmic emphasizes the importance of ?order=created to prevent confusion in feed readers due to shifting topic order.
Global new.rss would be beneficial or helpful on RSS-readers. Or connect forums together, because federated way will not be that common, I reckon, and its target is different.
I don’t know how common using RSS-feed that way is either.
I’m looking for solution to get all new topics from Contribute > Bug to my forum, as an early warnings. Do I need that? Absolutely not, because I’m visiting so often anyway. Do I want it? I can’t say that either because Discourse is mostly so stabil. But that would be nice to have, similar way what federating offers.
1 is the category id. I took that from the documentation
And then I added ?order=created, like sam did above.
You can easily get the id from the url when you visit the category for example https://meta.discourse.org/c/bug/1. You just add the .rss and the parameter
Very useful thread, https://SITE/latest.rss?order=created in particular is important for the common use case of “follow a discourse’s topics in my feed reader with stable ordering”.
(I’m assuming without order=created, order would get mixed up based on reply activity. But now that I come to think of it, I watch https://discourse.haskell.org/latest.rss with bazqux.com and have never noticed a problem.)
But I see it now. If you subscribe to one of these feeds without ?order=created, it will seem fine at first but as the order of items changes the feedreader and you will get horribly confused.
