Newbie question regarding RSS feeds

[mhillyard]

Not sure if this is the right spot for this question, but here goes:

Got a complaint from a user that my RSS feed was updating every time someone dropped a comment to one of my entries. Is this a function of my blog or the user's RSS reader? And, is there a way for me to change this?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[garvinhicking]

This depends on your Serendipity version. In early 0.5 or 0.6 versions this was buggy, I remember. But it has been fixed in 0.7 (or at least in 0..

Regards,
Garvin

[mhillyard]

This depends on your Serendipity version. In early 0.5 or 0.6 versions this was buggy, I remember. But it has been fixed in 0.7 (or at least in 0.8).

Currently running 0.7.1. Is there possibly a setting that I'm not seeing here?

[garvinhicking]

I read it up in our code: The "lastModified" will be pushed when an article is not older than 7 days and a comment is made. This way, good RSS Readers will not show the item updated, but will show the amount of comments correctly. So your user seems to be using an RSS client which doesn't handle that situation well.

However you can edit your serendipity_config.inc.php and modify the $serendipity['max_last_modified'] setting if you like. However you will degrade functionality for all others users with propper RSS readers, who will then not see the real comment count for the latest articles.

Regards,
Garvin