Updating existing items from RSS

[greenwoodcm]

The Old Reader does not update existing RSS items if they are updated after they are published. I don't know if that's a conscious decision or something you're not aware of, but just wanted to let you know.

An example of this can be found at the blog:

http://theoldreader.com/feeds/51b0d63a82d493716f0057e8

The latest post to this blog is here:

http://atwoodknives.blogspot.com/2013/06/short-wave-g2-ghosts.html

The reason its relevant is that the writer of the blog posts a purchase link for some items, and then edits the blog post to remove the purchase link when the items are sold out.

[krasnoukhov]

Hello, thank you for reporting.

The point is that The Old Reader is actually updating posts content, but this is a bit slow operation (pull recent posts from database, compare contents, update differences) so it is not happening per every feed fetch.