aKregator downloads a post repeatedly if it changes

[Daniel Miles]

Binary package hint: akregator

I'm not sure whether or not this qualifies as a bug - however, in the example where aKregator is subscribed to a feed, and one post in that feed continually changes (for example, it is a poll, and this is continually changed as people vote), then aKregator will re-download it every time it syncs that feed.

I'm not sure if this is also present in liferea or other feed readers.

I couldn't find anywhere upstream to report a bug either, and I'm not totally sure whether this is a bug or intended behaviour.

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

I am going to wishlist this item. I don't know if it happens with other aggregators (anyone using something else have this same issue?) I do know that Akregator will repost if the RSS feed has changed at all, so I am guessing this is an intended behavior, however it would be nice to have a filter you can set to prevent this from reoccurring.

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

I am going to go ahead and close this report because after speaking with the akregator developers, they noted this is the intended or chosen behavior and other feed readers do the same. Now if I can get them to add some sort of filtering :)