Google Reader - Deleted Posts

[shepard]

I did not see a forum for Google Reader, so here is the question.

I notice that Reader downloads posts from blogs even days after those posts were deleted from the blog. I understand that with the reader you can never delete an entry once it is downloaded. (Don't like that limitation). But, even if I create a totally new reader account on a new computer, when I access a feed from certain sites, I get old, deleted posts along with the more recent valid ones. If I visit the blog directly, the old deleted posts are not there.

Anyone know why this happens? Does Google access an old cache to get feeds? If so, this might explain why these old deleted blog posts keep downloading. However, if that was true, how would Google Reader get new posts? Maybe the feed download form a site is only updated by Reader if there is a new post?

Thanks!

[intelliot]

Thanks for the suggestion! I've created a Google Reader Forum and moved your topic into it.

I don't know why old posts still appear, but one thing to consider is caches between the "source" blog feed and Google Reader. For example, I use FeedBurner for my blog's feed, and FeedBurner caches the feed. Thus, even deleted posts will still appear until FeedBurner updates its cache.

[shepard]

It's great to have a forum for the reader!

I used the "Add to Google" button to add the feed, so I don't think any third parties are involved. As I noted, I also created a new Windows account on a different computer and then made Google Reader my homepage using a totally new account at Google. So I should have appeared as a new person subscribing to the feed. It still downloaded and displayed old, deleted blog posts from the site that are not there if you actually visit the site. Strange!

[derekgreer]

I just noticed this behavior too. After noticing some formatting problems in someone else's post, I decided to subscribe to my own blog to see how Google Reader is formatting my articles. To my surprise, I noticed that one of my posts appeared to be a duplicate, and later noticed posts which I have long since deleted and quite frankly don't want to be published. Is there anyway to prevent this from happening?

[shepard]

I just basically have ignored this and a few other quirks about GR. As you can see from this forum and this thread,(almost two years old!), there is not much GR traffic here. GR seems to work good enough for most people and the few things like this and deleted GR items not really being deleted, don't seem to be on Googles to do list. I have just gotten used the quirks and ignore the 10's, or maybe by now 100's of thousands of GR items that are in my archives.

[vik88]

i also noticed such situation! and thank you all for good posts! very interesting to read how did you fight with that problem

[desigac]

You can remove your cookies then try to get new one.







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