Last I checked, the RSS aggregator was pretty well busted. I'd suggest we disable it for now in favor of a central link to member blogs. We can fix the aggregator later but I'd rather not release one that makes it look like only one of us blogs.
It would be very easy to disable this feature temporarily, by commenting out the "recent articles" section in the index view, and possibly "list articles" on the menu. Then of course, we just wouldn't run the feed aggregator.
That said, I'm not sure I agree that it is broken. While it could certainly be improved in the way of efficiency (and possibly robustness), it does do what it is supposed to do. (Unless it changed since I last hacked on it).
The first time it runs, it sequentially inserts each members' posts. Subsequent times, it does incremental updates. The index page display is sorted by date, so if it shows 5 posts by one person, then the 5 most recent posts were by that person. With more unique feed urls, this will become less and less likely. The "List Articles" page is sorted by ID, so posts will be grouped by user, if this is undesireable, it's display could be sorted by date too.
Ben, please take a look at the feeder script and see if you still think it is busted. If so, perhaps you can suggest some changes to make it less busted.
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