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I've been subscribed to news.ycombinator.com/rss for a few years, but (more often lately) I have noticed that it does not update frequently, and many stories th

I've been subscribed to news.ycombinator.com/rss for a few years, but (more often lately) I have noticed that it does not update frequently, and many stories that have appeared on the desktop site (not "new", but on the front page) do not appear in the feed. I will give https://hnrss.org/frontpage https://hnrss.org/frontpage a try.

mdp2021 5y ago
> it does not update frequently How often do you retrieve? I find it to be one of the most active
boardwaalk 5y ago
I think the HN RSS feed reorders entries which confuses some RSS readers.
mattowen_uk 5y ago
I have also been using 'news.ycombinator.com/rss' for years, I have no problem with it, but then I only fetch and view the actual content of the xml in real time, and don't have a reader storing and sorting the entries. What I can say is, the /rss feed always 100% matches the frontpage at the time of it's fetch. EDIT: looking at the /rss feed, it's missing a <guid> tag for articles, which maybe confusing some readers that rely on that tag for article uniqueness.
spiffytech 5y ago
I saw that too. I used to run my own HN RSS feed that was just a pass-thru to HN's RSS feed, but with the comments as the primary link. No matter how often my feed reader fetched, I routinely saw links show up on HN Daily or HN Blogs that my pass-thru feed hadn't captured. Eventually I learned that hnrss has a flag to make the comments the primary link. I switched to that, and no more problem.
- fmorel 5y ago
  > Eventually I learned that hnrss has a flag to make the comments the primary link. I switched to that, and no more problem. This has been my only annoyance with the HN RSS feed. I'm so glad to have learned about this.
- sdf3221a 5y ago
  Wait, what is this flag? This is my greatest annoyance with the official feed....
  - spiffytech 5y ago
    For the front page, the RSS URL is: https://hnrss.org/frontpage?link=comments https://hnrss.org/frontpage?link=comments hnrss also has some other nifty flags to only show links with a given number of updates or comments: https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=100&comments=25 https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=100&comments=25

mdp2021 5y ago

> it does not update frequently How often do you retrieve? I find it to be one of the most active

boardwaalk 5y ago

I think the HN RSS feed reorders entries which confuses some RSS readers.

mattowen_uk 5y ago

I have also been using 'news.ycombinator.com/rss' for years, I have no problem with it, but then I only fetch and view the actual content of the xml in real time, and don't have a reader storing and sorting the entries. What I can say is, the /rss feed always 100% matches the frontpage at the time of it's fetch. EDIT: looking at the /rss feed, it's missing a <guid> tag for articles, which maybe confusing some readers that rely on that tag for article uniqueness.

spiffytech 5y ago

I saw that too. I used to run my own HN RSS feed that was just a pass-thru to HN's RSS feed, but with the comments as the primary link. No matter how often my feed reader fetched, I routinely saw links show up on HN Daily or HN Blogs that my pass-thru feed hadn't captured. Eventually I learned that hnrss has a flag to make the comments the primary link. I switched to that, and no more problem.

fmorel 5y ago
> Eventually I learned that hnrss has a flag to make the comments the primary link. I switched to that, and no more problem. This has been my only annoyance with the HN RSS feed. I'm so glad to have learned about this.
sdf3221a 5y ago
Wait, what is this flag? This is my greatest annoyance with the official feed....
- spiffytech 5y ago
  For the front page, the RSS URL is: https://hnrss.org/frontpage?link=comments https://hnrss.org/frontpage?link=comments hnrss also has some other nifty flags to only show links with a given number of updates or comments: https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=100&comments=25 https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=100&comments=25