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I'm no RSS expert (although I once wrote my own client), but I think for ages the RSS feed was kinda broken:

• The first entry always points to https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html, even when a dated page (ap{YY}{MM}{DD}.html) exists, which means the entry changes every day, and (some?) RSS clients get confused with this.
• Entries are not dated, so less data for the clients to resolve the above issue.

And since Jan 02nd I have seen that:

• Entries have and empty title.

I searched everywhere, but I don't know who to contact. Can someone forward this to the right person? TIA, cheers,

-- Marcos.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html is always the current apod.

bystander wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 4:38 pm https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html is always the current apod.

Yes, I don't deny it is useful, what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be in the RSS feed, specially since it doesn't have a declared date. The RSS feed instead should include the date based URL for the first entry, since that URL is the canonical one for the resource.

mdione wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:11 pm Yes, I don't deny it is useful, what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be in the RSS feed, specially since it doesn't have a declared date.

Moreover, I think the initial requirements for an RSS feed adressed this:

OgetayK wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 9:35 pm

• RSS Feed should only see the links that have the above format (apod/ap211114.html) not the main page with a format (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)

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mdione wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 8:53 am

• Entries are not dated, so less data for the clients to resolve the above issue.

The lack of timestamps for entries is a big deal in general, not just for the above issue. My RSS feed reader is displaying all entries as having been published on Jan 01.

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The current RSS feed (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss) also fails to meet another requirement, taken from Flipboard (https://ko-kr.about.flipboard.com/rss-guidelines/):

The entire body copy of your article, not just headlines and summaries.

This feed (https://apod.me/en.rss), from the Arabic APOD mirror (https://apod.me/), seems to address all of these issues.