[Defletter]

The only complaint I have about RSS is that it seems antagonistic to edits. It's not usual that, when refreshing my podcast RSS feed, there are multiple versions of the same episodes because they made some edit somewhere in the title or description, etc. I've had five versions of the same episode before. I feel like we should have the technology to fix this by now :P

[not--felix]

I think the problem is that there are so many different standards[0] which makes it hard to parse them in a uniform format. The second problem is the most feeds only have 15 items, even if a reader handles updates they are fast lost for ever.

[0] https://ivyreader.com/articles/rss-standart-collection

[lwhsiao]

We do. Atom feeds have an updated field for this. But, it's up to whoever is generating the feed to know how to handle their metadata.

[_Algernon_]

RSS provides GUID + update timestamp which combined allows the client to integrate changes or replace entries.

[vhcr]

That's what the guid / id field is for.