Boost, RSS Feeds, and Google Reader

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:30:27 +0000

For a while now, I've struggled with an issue on this site. Google Reader would sometimes show items that had already been displayed in the reader. They would be shown as new unread items, regardless of whether the "original" copy of that item had been read. I'm sure this irritated many readers, and I tried several times to fix the issue.

The feed was successfully validated by the W3C Validator. Multiple times.
Adding the feed freshly worked fine.
Adding the feed to other RSS readers showed only 1 per item.

I set up a cron job to pull a copy of my RSS feed regularly and save copies. I figured I could see if anything changed between versions. At first, the differing versions showed no significant changes. (Other than new posts where expected.)

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Boost, RSS Feeds, and Google Reader