I notice that I am confused, as RSS has a guid field for precisely this purpose. Is it that LW’s RSS generation does not include it, or is it some other site producing the RSS?
Oh yeah, I remember experimenting with that, though ended up running into similar problems as comparing links for the wordpress case. I remember the ID changing depending on some kind of context, though I don’t remember the exact thing (this code was some of the first code I wrote for the new LessWrong, so it’s been a while).
I do think this is a pretty straightforwardly solvable problem, we just haven’t put much effort into it, since it hasn’t been much of a problem in the past.
Is it that LW’s RSS generation does not include it, or is it some other site producing the RSS?
This is talking about RSS imports, so we are consuming an RSS feed from an external site, and parsing it into a LessWrong post. So we don’t really have control over what data is available.
I notice that I am confused, as RSS has a guid field for precisely this purpose. Is it that LW’s RSS generation does not include it, or is it some other site producing the RSS?
Oh yeah, I remember experimenting with that, though ended up running into similar problems as comparing links for the wordpress case. I remember the ID changing depending on some kind of context, though I don’t remember the exact thing (this code was some of the first code I wrote for the new LessWrong, so it’s been a while).
I do think this is a pretty straightforwardly solvable problem, we just haven’t put much effort into it, since it hasn’t been much of a problem in the past.
This is talking about RSS imports, so we are consuming an RSS feed from an external site, and parsing it into a LessWrong post. So we don’t really have control over what data is available.