I would be interested in using a category RSS feed which is ordered by the latest post per topic. It would still have one RSS item per topic, but the date/author/description of that item would relate to the latest post.
Here is what I’ve observed on my own forum:
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The
/latest
page is ordered by the date of the latest post per topic, whereas the/latest.rss
RSS feed is ordered by the first post per topic. -
Similarly, the
c/category-name/category-id
page is ordered by the date of the latest post per topic in that category, whereas the/c/category-name/category-id.rss
RSS feed is ordered by the first post per topic in that category. -
(The RSS feeds also return the author and content of the first post per topic.)
I’m putting this in the meta “bug” category, though I accept that there may be a good reason for it being implemented this way (and it may be that my observations are wrong).