Site RSS feed

[Toshik]

Hello!

I'm writing about main site RSS feed - http://images.videolan.org/videolan-news.rss

The feed is working (users are able to subscribe), but after successful subscription via RSS reader, it is not updated properly e.g. when news appears on the site, RSS reader shows no updates in the feed.

I contacted RSS reader devs, and after double checking the situation, they adviced me to contact site administration, so they could fix the feed.

The problem is that, links to news in rss feed are linked with news position on the main news page (http://www.videolan.org/news.html) instead of the actual news post link.

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<link>http://www.videolan.org/news.html#news-1</link> <guid>urn:md5:1a1f0b49-4dcb-a05a-afe3-afcb6d09db53</guid>

When new post appears on the site, the link constantly points at news.html#news-1, instead of the actual news item (like news.html#news-2020-10-23 or news.html#news-2020-09-23).

RSS readers think that feed is not updated, because links and md5 of the broken link (#news-1) are constant all the time.

It makes RSS feed useless, as it doesn't do what it's made for - show site updates.

Please fix rss feed, for links to point to the actual posts with updates.

Best regards,

Toshik

[chubinou]

Hi,

thanks for the report, can you open an issue here: https://code.videolan.org/VideoLAN.org/ ... s/-/issues

for reference
in the news page it's formating with the date:
https://code.videolan.org/VideoLAN.org/ ... ws.php#L65

where as in the RSS, it's generated using the line number:
https://code.videolan.org/VideoLAN.org/ ... ss.php#L50