Invalid dates in Bandwagon RSS?

@bandwagon: I’ve been subbed to Bandwagon’s Discover feed for a while… and also not really looking at my RSS reader ever since?

So I just had a spare brain cycle and was able to draw the connection between those two thigs: it’s because the Bandwagon feed emits release dates in the year 57287!

...
    <item>
      <title>Pony poo</title>
      <link>https://bandwagon.fm/680b872b5257fb83063d5bf4</link>
      <description></description>
      <author>K. Carter</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 57287 10:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Out of Time</title>
      <link>https://bandwagon.fm/680b78f45257fb83063d3618</link>
      <description></description>
      <author>Stefan Bohacek</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 57285 16:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Malicious Compliance</title>
      <link>https://bandwagon.fm/680a9533982a26144aa9e1ec</link>
      <description></description>
      <author>PUMIQUXT</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 57283 05:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>TENONEv1</title>
      <link>https://bandwagon.fm/680966c2a706ef72dc0193c1</link>
      <description></description>
      <author>ENOENT</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 57281 11:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
    </item>
...

Naturally, this crowds out all other feeds. So the top of my reader (Brief) had started to look like this at some point:

And only after some scrolling I can get to the actual present where the rest of the stuff is happening:

I reckon that’s something to fix on the Bandwagon RSS side? (Big sorry that I can’t report an issue on GH – been trying to stay away from Microsoft properties and all.)

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Furthermore I think renaming it from Discover to Bandwagon: Discover or some such would be a quick win. Took me a good while to even realize what this “Discover” thing with names of things and no other metadata even was…

Yes, and thank you for the heads up. This was an issue with the search engine RSS feed. I think I’ve got that squared away now.

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I’m updating the RSS names as well. This should appear in the next release later this month :slight_smile:

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