Here’s one I can’t figure out. On my Message Board I recently added an RSS feed so people can subscribe to the messages and get a sort of summary. I know I shoulda done this a long time ago, but I never got around to it. The message box runs with Fox code and Web Connection and to add the RSS feed I pulled the same code that is used on FoxCentral.Net to provide the feed data.

Tested offline and put it up – all looked good. But, a few days later I see that everything is definitely not good. My RSS readers all double up many entries. I get thousands of messages in a couple of days.

Yet I can’t figure out why this is happening. The feed doesn’t contain duplicates, although there may be multiple messages in the feed with the same title. However the timestamps are different. Somebody please tell me that feedreaders (I use both FeedDemon and NewsGator) can’t be that dumb that they don’t check timestamps in addition to the message title? Heck even my demo readers that I’ve built in the past did that to try to avoid exactly this problem.

Anyway, for kicks I added a unique key to the end of the title now just to see if this will fix the problem.

It's not as if those readers didn't have enough problems with duplicate entries as is. <g> Everytime somebody makes a change to an entry and updates it it ends up showing up as a duplicate in both FeedDemon and Newsgator...