The original poster, joe90, is looking for a way to include bumped posts in the RSS feeds for latest posts and categories. Bumped posts are old posts that are automatically resurfaced by the system in each category’s settings. Currently, the RSS feeds do not include these bumped posts, but the latest.json file does. As a workaround, joe90 has used Zapier to convert the latest.json file into an RSS feed. jonesv asked for clarification on what it means to “bump” a post and wondered if it would allow RSS readers to notify users of updated posts.
What does it mean to “bump” a post? Is it when there was an answer?
Currently, my RSS reader gives me a notification when there is a new post, but not when someone answered to a post. I am not sure if RSS has a notion of “answers”, and I am wondering if I understand correctly that this “bump” info would let my reader know that the post was updated and it would (maybe) trigger a notification?
Currently it just feels a bit useless to use the RSS feed, given that anyway I need to open the website to see if there was an answer posted in the topic I am interested in.
