RSS feed updates don't show up on Google reader

[anewuser]

Hello. For some reason, Google Reader parses VLC RSS (http://www.videolan.org/videolan-news.rss) posts with the wrong timestamp, as if all new posts were published in 2010. Because of that, no new updates show up for Google Reader users.

This has been reported to Google months ago, but nobody replied to the thread. Can you please take a look at your RSS code to verify if the problem isn't actually on your side?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

http://validator.w3.org/appc/check.cgi? ... n-news.rss

[anewuser]

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

So?
The source clearly states:
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>

[anewuser]

The problem is that your feed recycles the same URL, so readers interpret new posts as if they were duplicates of old posts. See this reply from the programmer of another reader:

I fixed the problem. It didn't work before because their feed recycles the same URLs so I never logged that anything new was being added and stopped checking after a year. Then when an update was forced by visiting the feed it didn't find anything during the last 30 days to change.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I don't understand what recycles the same URL means.

[anewuser]

It means that all new entries point to the same URL (http://www.videolan.org/news.html). You could change that by adding something like "?2013-03-27" to the end of the post URL, so the full link read like http://www.videolan.org/news.html?2013-03-27#news-1 instead of just http://www.videolan.org/news.html#news-1

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Should be fixed.

[anewuser]

Thank you!