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RSS Feed for Category Latest

Jonathan5 is requesting a feature for category RSS feeds to be ordered by the latest post per topic, rather than the first post. Currently, the /latest and category-specific pages display topics in order of the latest post, while their corresponding RSS feeds (/latest.rss and /c/category-name/category-id.rss) display topics in order of the first post. Jonathan5 notes that this discrepancy suggests it may be a deliberate design choice, but argues that the RSS feed should mirror the ordering of the corresponding forum page.

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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:

  • 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).

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The move from “bug” to “feature” (request) makes me think it must be deliberate :slight_smile:

The feature I’d like is for the RSS URL to work the same way as the forum page URL that it is based on.

To put it in context, it would be in the same order as Embedding a list of Discourse Topics in another site with order="replies".