Testing a potential One Point Oh tarball/zip

Jeff Waugh jdub at perkypants.org
Mon Feb 6 11:15:32 EST 2006


<quote who="Minh Nguyen">

> Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Hmm. Interesting problem. We ignore dates because Everybody Lies [1],
> > though it may make sense to check the date of new feeds when they
> > appear, sort them into the stack so this kind of thing doesn't happen.
>
> That'd be quite helpful for my Planet, because I syndicate mostly blogs
> from big services like LiveJournal, Xanga, and MySpace. In the past few
> months, all three services have changed either their URLs or formats,
> rendering my Planet completely useless for at least a day each time. I do,
> however, understand the current behavior, as there are people who might
> like to "float" their posts to the top by changing the date every now and
> then, and that wouldn't be very fair.

That's a totally separate bug.

- Jeff

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