Timeline for Why doesn't this feed for featured questions work?
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| Jun 12, 2016 at 23:09 | history | bounty ended | Dennis | ||
| Jun 8, 2016 at 9:24 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | Uh? What? The point is to not show the same thing multiple times - at least, that's how I read the code and why this was done. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 9:17 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | @Oded: I get that you don't want to show the same thing more than once. That's pretty straightforward. But if you're deliberately dropping items that fit a particular very simple rule on the floor to reduce average load… well, I'm not sure how that's anything other than a really bad design decision. Maybe feeds should be throttled and items beyond a certain rate get randomly dropped. That would still be unreliable, but at least it would be reliably so. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 9:09 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @Caleb - that's essentially what I ended up doing. Will see once we build out. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 9:08 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @NathanO'TᴇstingTuggy - consider what the feeds in chat would look like if we did not do so. We do have to filter things out. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 20:40 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | I think the bug is the hack done of ignoring feed items older than the last run time. As far as I know, there are other feed readers that don't pull that stunt, and instead go ahead and check GUIDs or links against all previous entries to see if they're duplicates. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:23 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | It is not by design - more of an unfortunate set of incompatible features, each working correctly on their own. The problem with getting bounty dates - it isn't a cheap thing to do with our data model :/ | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 18:56 | comment | added | Caleb | Isn't this kind of saying it's broken by design? If a properly implemented news reader would be useless (as it seems to be) then maybe the data should be adjusted so that it actually can be consumed in a way that's useful—like maybe dating things in the featured feed with the bounty dates. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 18:21 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 7, 2016 at 17:47 | history | answered | OdedStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |