Missing rss feed which corresponds to "new" topics

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Background

According to docs we have a lot of RSS-feeds:

But we are actually missing the

https://meta.discourse.org/new.rss

It’s easy to mix up “new” with “latest” (which works) but they are actually different:

  • New = newest topics disregarding from latest reply
  • Latest = topic with latest reply

See discussion with @hellekin here in the docs-topic.

To re-create

Go to: https://meta.discourse.org/new.rss

Received result

Page missing error

Expected result

A rss-file similar to: Discourse Meta - Latest topics

which corresponds to: Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse

or in our case to: https://meta.discourse.org/new

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See also

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The rss feed is there, but you need to be logged in:

“new” = topics new to you…

I think you are confusing it with a feature we do not have :slight_smile:

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Hmmm… yes, I think you are right. Sorry! :see_no_evil:

But is there a way to get latest topics (“new”) ordered by creation date disregarding last reply? (Without logging in)

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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.

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Exactly my use case as well. To show new conversations in an aggregated way.

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https://meta.discourse.org/latest.rss?order=created ?

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Thanks!

Sorry for not figuring out this myself. :see_no_evil: can we just forget about this topic?

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But it doesn’t work on category level, so this can’t be done?

https://meta.discourse.org/c/bug/latest.rss?order=created

And no matter ?order=created because latest.rss works just on forum level. Or am I again wrong?

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Are you looking for https://meta.discourse.org/c/bug/1.rss?order=created?

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I don’t even know what the heck is 1.rss.

I’m looking for solution to get all new topics from 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.

So you tell me what I’m looking for :joy:

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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

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https://meta.discourse.org/c/bug/1/l/latest?order=created

that is the route for unconditional latest, cause default may point to something else depending on top menu order.

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no stress at all, this is quite a hidden feature in Discourse.

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This is pretty cool. So this can be used internally and for external RSS readers? :star_struck:

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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.

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