Shawn: I think it would be useful to put a date with the "recent blog" link. Many of those links are sold links, and are no updating their content, so are not real "recent blogs". Of course, the date to be used would be extracted from the "pubDate" feed. Another option is to put the link only for feeds not older than 2 weeks or similar.
That would include more coding. To see the recent date, poeple can just click the latest blog post on users profile to go to their blogs and see for themselves. The system updates every 1-2 hours to fetch the latest posts, i think thats enough.
Yes, but it would be simple. Just getting the "pubDate" field when fetching the "title" from feed. My suggestion is precisely to avoid that.
Even one word extra to the current setup is a hassle, working this forum over a cluster is much harder then you make it out to seem. Fetching pubDate will also include one extra query.
Recent Post shows the topmost post on that particular blog - so its the most "recent" from the blog its fetched from - right !!
Not always. For example i'm updating my feed every 3 hours, sorting it for putting on top the most clicked entries, not the most recent.
In that case which blog link is displayed besides ur Recent Post - the one which has the most clicked entries ?
Exactly, that way is displayed (here at DP) the entry most "interesting" from my visitors point of view, not the most recent .
The recent post is fed on "feeds" so if you are tinkering with the feeds themselves then you are beating the purpose of the word "recent" post so be happy with what is served
I think there's no need for this. The blog owner has the option which blog post he wants to appear in his DP profile. --Joe