Originally Posted by jayeff

I'm not taking a poke at TCG's feeds, in fact it's good to see someone else making an effort to handle them properly. But as a general observation, I'm fast coming to the conclusion RSS feeds are more trouble than they are worth.

Which is a damn shame, considering their potential. But there is hardly a day goes by when at least one feed which usually works, doesn't. Sometimes all that happens is the feed isn't read in at all and that is fine. But more often than not, my site(s) get(s) broken.

If sponsors cannot be relied upon to check that every addition is valid, the only real answer is to queue the feeds and check them before allowing new content to be posted. But that can involve some serious time if you are using multiple feeds across several sites and defeats at least part of the advantage of this form of content delivery.