Clean up Drupal Planet for old posts

5 more from ANNAI Magazine today.

9 more from DrupalEasy today.

It's not really practical to do any manual cleanup since newer posts will usually push occurrences of this down by the time someone can look at this.

Well, there are still 9 "Posted by DrupalEasy" on the front page. Waiting for them to get slowly pushed down by newer posts, seems to me a defeatist attitude.

Imagine if you were unlucky, and your blog post got included right before a barrage of old blog posts. Then your post was pushed into obscurity, and on to page 2 quite quickly. That is not great, if you spend quite some time writing it, and expected it to stay on the first page Drupal Planet for a while.

Also, this will happen more and more frequently until 🐛 Views RSS Feed Fields adds tag. Active is fixed, since many sites are now being updated to Drupal 10:

• Nov 20, 2023: 9 posts, DrupalEasy
• Nov 20, 2023: 5 posts, ANNAI Magazine
• Nov 19, 2023: 24 posts, Gbyte
• Nov 16, 2023: 14 posts, Centarro
• Nov 14, 2023: 10 posts, TEN7
• Nov 5, 2023: 10 posts, 3C Web Services
• Nov 1, 2023: 20 posts, Lullabot
• Oct 24, 2023: 9 posts, ADCI Solutions
• Oct 16, 2023: 6 posts, Dropsolid Experience Agency
• Oct 6, 2023: 50 (!) posts, Electric Citizen

So I think it should be prioritized, to make an effort to clean up, after a dump of old blog posts. Or maybe it is a complicated task? I don't know ...

Ten more today from Niels de Feyter.

Updating this issue to be about cleaning up Drupal Planet, and remove the old blog posts.

@apaderno: Do you have any ideas on how to do this?

Since the feeds are malformed due to 🐛 Views RSS Feed Fields adds tag. Active , the cleanup I can imagine working is manually setting the date of each post at the DB prompt.

This is not a critical problem or anything we would set up an alert for, so cleanup would happen hours later at best, after anyone using a feed reader would also have gotten the mis-dated items. (I also do not know how feed readers would handle the dates changing.)

Needing to use a DB prompt means about 5 people have access to do this. Right now we are over-booked with strategic initiative work among other priorities.

Any effort on this is best spent working to resolve 🐛 Views RSS Feed Fields adds tag. Active

Thanks for clarifying the method and effort required to fix this on our end @drumm.

It's just that the current situation of Planet Drupal pains me, both as a regular user, but also on behalf of those who blog on it, and for the image of Drupal--that it's slightly broken.

You're probably right that it's best to focus the energy on fixing the underlying issue. Since I guess the patch will be released for the current version of Drupal, for the blogging sites upgrading from Drupal 9 to 10, it will be fixed. Maybe set it to Postponed, in case someone has time to look at it, or comes up with some easy trick to clean up?

Adding 15 posts by Samuel Mortenson.

The cause has been fixed in 🐛 Views RSS Feed Fields adds tag. Active , so closing the issue. If a similar situation happens again, it can be reopened.

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Adding Acquia.

I still think being able to clean up duplicate, old posts should be considered. Recently there has been a deluge ... 47 posts, what looks like the same twenty posts, posted repeatedly, with a few days between.

It happened again.

Adding another one.

40 old posts flooded in today, filling up page 1 and 2.