July 4th, 2008 by Jemaleddin Cole

Dear Yahoo!,

If you can’t stop fill­ing my feed reader with dupli­cate entries, it’s going to become even harder to take you seri­ously. I don’t know what’s wrong with the back­end of Yahoo! Sports, but I’m get­ting the same entries 3 and 4 times - and not even because they’ve been changed.

So knock it off. You’ve got enough on your plate, what with half the com­pany flee­ing. No need to drive off your remain­ing users.

Thanks,

Jemal

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3 Responses to “An Open Letter to Yahoo! Re: Feeds”

  1. Inter­est­ing. The raw feed from Yahoo! doesn’t have dupli­cate entries, but when I fetch it with my news reader (Net­NewsWire, via News­ga­tor), sud­denly all sorts of extra crap appears in there.

    I’ve filed a bug on your behalf.

    — Evan Goer July 4th, 2008 at 1:13 pm #

  2. Thanks for the catch! The issue was that your feed reader was con­sid­er­ing each mod­i­fi­ca­tion of an arti­cle as a new item. This has been fixed in our RSS feeds.

    — EJ July 4th, 2008 at 1:55 pm #

  3. Wow - usu­ally my snarky com­ments just echo around. Nice! Thanks!

    — Jemaleddin Cole July 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm #

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