Feed Digest Woes
I was pretty excited at first about Feed Digest - it looked like a cool way to add access to my blogs easily to different web pages. But then the woes set in: if you delete a blog entry, FeedDigest remembers it. For the life of me, I can't figure out how/why - they must be keeping around historical data, because the atom.xml file doesn't have the deleted entries. And if you update an entry for any reason, it pops up as the most recent entry - again, I can't figure out how/why. And so I gave up.
My old profession to the rescue: I wrote some PHP that did exactly what I wanted - you can download the code if you can't help yourself. And I'm now inspired as to how to write a web based RSS/ATOM xhtml reader so that I can get at my favorite blogs via my phone's browser (I've been underwhelmed by the native & java apps I've found). More on that later, I hope.
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I didn't see this the first time reason, but I'm Peter from FeedDigest.
The reason for the archiving is simple. Our users all demanded it. Many use digests to show archives of their/other sites, and/or their delicious bookmarks. Many feeds only show 10 items, so this is necessary.
You can override it though by ticking 'Show only live items' for your digest. That would have solved both the problems you pointed out :)
Posted by: Peter Cooper | May 26, 2006 5:16 PM