Slowdown/recycling of news articles

[rcjordan]

About a month ago, I noticed articles being held or resubmitted by news sites' rss feeds.  Most prevalent on weekends, but it's a creeping trend. I assume it's a cost-reduction move to get more eyeballs by recycling.  Whatever, it's prevalent enough that it's slowing down the 'turns' of Gnews.

[bill]

This is a real PITA for me. I follow a ton of feeds, and there doesn't seem to be a way to filter out this repetition. Anyone who seriously uses an RSS feed reader doesn't want to be bothered by repetition like this. It may be necessary for Twitter or other SNS, but stop messing up my feeds and wasting my time!

[rcjordan]

Hmmm, my custom reader filters out dupes (from the same source) as long as they are held in the database. Since it's flatfile, it gets flakey when the db gets large but article feeds (vs craigslist feeds) aren't typically very large. I may up the days held in the db to a week and see if it helps.

[bill]

Exact dupes from the same source are easy if they come in succession, but some sites have got their postings on on schedules with tools like Hootsuite, It's easy for them to space postings out enough so that once I've read a feed I'm sure to see the exact same story 8~12 hours later. That's probably necessary for SNS like Twitter where your post can get lost in the flow, but I wish they'd keep it out of their RSS.