Posted: 7/31/2010 2:14 AM
Post subject: What's up with the RSS feed?
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Whelkman
Joined: 7/7/2007
Posts: 161
Over the past week (very) old entries have been appearing sporadically. Most recent examples:
  • [95] Genesis Quackshot (any,r0) by nifboy in 25:00.05 (Published by Bisqwit)
  • [86] NES Blaster Master (USA) by Devindotcom in 43:57.95 (Published by Bisqwit)
  • [84] NES Rockin' Kats (USA) by Teowind in 23:38.65 (Published by Bisqwit)
  • [81] NES Super Pitfall (USA) by Arc in 11:52.22 (Published by Bisqwit)
It's not always stuff this old. It seems totally random, but all of it has been published by Bisquit.
Posted: 7/31/2010 2:15 AM
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adelikat
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Torrent replacements. Those were triggering the RSS feed. It is now disabled for torrent replacements though.
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Posted: 7/31/2010 2:35 AM
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Whelkman
Joined: 7/7/2007
Posts: 161
Ah, shoulda checked NewMovies.html. That brings up another point: besides monitoring this page and visually picking out or searching for "Updated", is there a way to discover that a recently published torrent has been replaced? Old torrents don't seem to consistently expire; though, looking through my archive, the recently updated ones are expiring. It'd still be nice to get notifications of updates to recently published movies (7 days? 30?) through the RSS feed. Also, unless I'm missing something, there's nothing to identify the "updated" status from either the RSS snippet or the movie page itself. Maybe something like "{UPDATED} [95] Genesis Quackshot (any,r0) by nifboy in 25:00.05 (Published by Bisqwit)" is in order. Otherwise an update could easily be passed off as a duplicate entry. EDIT: I can't speak for other feed readers, but I don't mind receiving notifications of every update, especially now that I know they're updates and not bugs. It's not like TASVideos is high volume. I still think there there should be something to distinguish the "updated" status, however.
Posted: 7/31/2010 3:02 AM
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Ilari
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The torrents do not expire. The torrents in question were manually deleted years ago (they were all obsolete movies at that time). The reason ones recently uploaded to archive seem to be "expiring" is that updated message comes from torrent being recreated, and that requires mirror to download the file to make torrent of. These torrents were not available before! Furthermore there is bug that causes caches to become stale if torrent has been deleted and then reuploaded. This requires manual intervention to flush the caches to make the torrent show up correctly.