Hello, First post here!! Say I have an RSS feed with the next 10 upcoming events that happen in a venue. Question 1:In what order should the events be listed. Starting from the event that is coming sooner (e.g. starting today) at the top of the feed, followed by events that come later. Or the opposite? Question 2: If a new event is scheduled for 5 days from now, is it OK if this event appears in the middle of the feed, or new Items in a feed should always appear on top? Also what do you think should be the default behavior of a feed that displays events. To show the next 10-20 upcoming events in chronological order, or to show the events most recently added to the database? And a related question: If an RSS feed has no Items to display, what should it do? Be empty without any Items at all, or create a "dummy" Item that says something like "sorry, there are no events to display..."
After a bit more research this seems to be controversial. Yahoo Upcoming feed shows the events in a non-chronological order, placing the events that are newly added on top. They also claim that doing it in any other way is bad: On the other hand Eventful orders the events in its feeds in chronological order by default. Does this mean that the people of Eventful do not know the "very, very, very clear reasons" that Upcoming is talking about?