Hello there!

I'm having a bit of a problem adding the M-U feed to Thunderbird. It only displays some of the existent messages, that is only the ones with different links. Since a lot of releases are linked to the release-page only the first of those messages get's displayed.
This may not necessarily be a problem of the rss-feed itself (it's valid after all), but is there any way to fight this.

Help and hints are greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Elchfaenger

I have had the exact same problem myself.
It seems to only download the items containing download-links properly, and sometimes not even those. I personally can't see a reason for this since the items seem to have the same coding in the rss-feed whether they have a dl-link or not. I'm gonna do some digging on how Thunderbird handles rss-feeds and what the standard rss-format looks like, since there seems to be something in this feed that differs from every other one i subscribe to...

Another "bug" with certain rss-readers (thunderbird is one and im sure there are others) is the fact that they download the items several times, this could be easily fixed by adding a value to each item.

I would be very happy if the webmaster\admin could take a look at this when they have time since it is a very nice addition to your otherwise excellent service.

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Dunno if this is the real problem... it is only a guess from my side...

Since the items without a download link reference the releases page some rss-readers will pick up on the rss on that page (in the alternate tag of the page) causing a loop which makes things not work as intended (nested items in SharpReader, index_out_of_bounds in RSSReader, dunno if it is what is causing Thunderbird not to load though...)

This may be due to the fact that RSS 2.0 standard doesn't apply a unique identifier to each message. Atom 0.9 standard does. Maybe updating the standard would help?