Some older feeds showing up after a cache clear

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by tracing how the planet/feedparser software handles feeds and posts that lack date fields, including the behavior after a cache clear. Reproduce the appearance of old posts and inspect the fallback date handling. Done means missing date fields no longer cause very old posts to appear after clearing the cache.

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Description

Problem

After we cleared the cache to address another issue, some very old posts showed up.

Details

A quick investigation suggests that the feeds / posts don't provide the date fields which the planet / feedparser software are looking for and the code falls back to some default value like today.

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