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News Stuck for Three Days Because the Feed Wasn't Sorted by Date
The news site's homepage showed the same day's stories for three days straight, even though scheduled jobs ran, translations finished, and every step reported success. The causes were an RSS feed sorted by relevance rather than date, string sorting of pubDate that actually sorted by weekday name, and requesting too few stories, leaving nothing after filtering before the rest even got a look.