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Title: [FIXED] RSS feed almost never updates
minj 29 Sep 2013
I'm using RSS Live links with chrome and got surprised by it today as it updated GOL after what seemed like eternity (around 2 weeks)

E. g. Cheapskate's corner is still the newest entry there even though there are 3 more now. 

Before you ask, yes, I tried to force it to update by pressing 'Reload'

You can see it for yourself by going to [http://gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php](http://gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php) manually.

This is useless
Speedster 29 Sep 2013
Sounds like you're running into a caching problem, because the RSS feed works for me & so does that link (showing Dead Linger at the top which is latest while I'm writing this). I'm running firefox, so maybe somebody else running Chrome can try to reproduce the problem.
minj 29 Sep 2013
you are right

ctrl+f5 solved it

seems the site uses some aggressive caching:
Cache-Control: max-age=864000
Expires: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:22:19 GMT

this surely needs to be fixed, no point in caching rss for 10 days, is there?

Speedster 30 Sep 2013
10 days would be too long for RSS on an active site like this. How about posting a feature request to tweak the setting over in the suggestion area
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/2/
Liam Dawe 30 Sep 2013
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Thanks for letting me know, I have added a no-cache header to the rss feed that should fix it, it seems every single RSS grabbing client handles things a little differently.

Will mark it as fixed when you let me know how it handles itself now.
minj 30 Sep 2013
Got an update:

PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate Released For Linux

by liamdawe 1 minute ago

so yeah, you've fixed it, thanks
Liam Dawe 30 Sep 2013
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Will have to find another way, this breaks our twitter importer.
Liam Dawe 30 Sep 2013
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Okay testing a new way, keeping it so there is no cache so all clients should grab all new items as soon as a feed is checked.

Switched our twitterfeed to use feedburners grabbing of our RSS, hopefully this will work for both you and our twitterfeed thing.
minj 2 Oct 2013
Arma Tactics is the last entry...
Liam Dawe 3 Oct 2013
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Okay so removing cache altogether didn't work I will set it manually.

I have set the RSS feed to have a max-age of an hour, let me know how that fares.
muntdefems 4 Oct 2013
I've just discovered this forum thread, but I must say the RSS is working fine now. :)
minj 4 Oct 2013
indeed
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