Imports duplicate or overwrite existing posts
Scheduled imports publish the same post many times or overwrite earlier posts, losing edits and comments.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
7 public reports · first reported 18 December 2023 · last reported 11 July 2024
What's going wrong
Site owners report that scheduled imports keep creating copies of the same article, sometimes hundreds of them, and that the duplicate-removal setting does not catch them. Others say a feed update rewrites a post they already published, which erases the comments, reactions and ratings their readers added. Bloggers, news sites and social-media feeders are affected, and the cleanup takes hours of manual deletion. The core issue is weak matching of feed items to existing posts. A guard that checks identity before each import, and that protects edited posts, would fix this for these sites.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator.
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Who has this problem
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