Anandtech post recorded with the wrong date?

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One of the feeds I am following is Anandtech (http://www.anandtech.com/rss/)). They have a recent article on POWER8 CPUs (http://www.anandtech.com/show/10435/assessing-ibms-power8-part-1) which shows a date of “Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:45:00 EDT”. However, I do not recall ever seeing this item in my unread river view. It’s possible I simply missed it…

Anyway, the part I found strange is that I managed to find an entry in NewsBlur by searching for “power8”, and there is an entry, but it has a date of “Tuesday, June 28th 2016 1:26pm”, which is several weeks earlier that what the RSS feed lists. Also the NewsBlur entry has the title “Assessing the IBM Power8”, but the feed shows “Assessing IBM’s POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian”.

Why is the date so far off in NewsBlur? Is this why I did not see any entry in my unread river?

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I believe it was the feed that did that. They probably either backdated a story or republished it.

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Yeah, that seems believable. Would the date confusion have prevented it from appearing in the unread, all feeds view? Does it get filtered out for being too old or something?

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Probably, since the mark_as_read date of your subscription moves up to meet the oldest unread.

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Aha, makes sense! Thanks for the explanation.