Hi All,
Sorry for being a pain I know Ive been requesting quite a bit of help as of late. My problem is that ActivityStream is updating really really strangely. Basically it grabs my feeds usually a day later and then sometimes If I run cron it removes the most recent previous Stream with the latest one and vice versa each time I run cron. Looking through the logs it all seems OK. Anyone have any Ideas as to what could be causing this?
Cheers

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akalsey commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Can you tell me the site and account (or the feed) that you're seeing this behavior on?

Also, ensure that you're using the latest version, released earlier this week. 5.x-1.2 had a bug that caused new installations to have trouble creating and updating items properly.

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clint-jb commented

Hi,
Definitly using the latest version... the feed Im seeing this on is http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=544541246&viewer=5445412... if I add it to my Firefox feed it works perfect soon as I add it to Activity Stream it grabs things from all over the place (and it wont then add my twitter feed) really not sure.... look forward to your thoughts.

Cheers

Just another note - I just noticed that its giving a wierd time stamp... saying Fri, 10/03/2008 - 14:37 for the feed period???

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akalsey commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (works as designed)

This feed is a mess...

There's a field called "guid" in a feed that is a unique ID for each item. Feed readers use this field to determine if the item is something they've seen before. Activity Stream uses this to determine if the item is a new update or one that's already in the database.

In this feed, the guid is the same for every item. This means that to feed readers, every single item appears to be the same thing. Activity Stream sees the text of the updates in the feed to be updates on the existing items, not new stream items.

See the feed validator output for this feed: http://tinyurl.com/4wab84

Activity Stream will work with a wide variety of broken feeds, but sometimes a feed is so broken that the module can't figure out what to do with it. This is the case here. In fact, you'll find that most feed readers will have trouble with this feed.

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akalsey commented

I've notified Facebook of the error with their feed.