Old posts appear again

[IlianIliev]

REPORT A BUG/PROBLEM

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Hi, I want to notify you of a bug/problem that is happening on the Planet.

I am using:
O.S: OS X El Capitan
Browser: Chrome
Platform: desktop

Problem

I have static blog (http://www.ilian.io/) due to the way I generate the pages (mainly because of tag cloud) after each new post I re upload the whole content. What I see as a result is that on your page I see all my articles instead of just the latest one.
Whether the result might be good for the marketing of my blog, I think it is not fair to the other writers and probably the problem does not affects just me.

Details

The "Django Interview Questions" article is actually pretty old.

Thanks,
Ilian

[tseaver]

@IlianIliev Thanks for the report. The items in your feed do not contain pubDate, which means the planet engine makes a (wrong) guess that they are new. The RSS 2.0 specification says it should be a date in "email" format, e.g. <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2002 15:21:36 GMT</pubDate>.

[IlianIliev]

@tseaver True and this is something I need to fix on my side. But still this a pretty easy way to trick the engine if you want to keep your posts in the head and get more visitors.

Honestly I haven't gone trough planet code(maybe I should do that), so I have no idea if this is possible but wouldn't it be better if you store a list of the processed articles and do not republish them.