Mtt
Mtt

@manton When as RSS Feed is added as a source, it breaks down if an item in that feed has an empty title tag. Instead of publishing as a title-less post, it publishes with a blank title. In the feed, it just shows a colon and the link. On blogs, it shows a blank title. Would it be possible to make these feed items import as title-less posts in this case?

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@Mtt It’s not supposed to work that way, and I noticed in your latest title-less post there’s actually an invisible character (a zero-width character) in the title, so that’s what was throwing it off. Where did you create the post from? I wonder if there was a copy/paste problem somewhere. I may be able to detect this.

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@manton Ah, that zero-width character is the hack. Zapier (and the others like it) require a Title to roll a custom RSS feed. The closest you can get to not having a title in their system is using the zero-width character. I (incorrectly) assumed the zero-width character would register as nothing in the XML.

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@Mtt To start with, I’m going to update the Micro.blog timeline to ignore zero-width characters. This won’t change the RSS feed, but it’ll at least fix the timeline so it looks nice.

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@manton Appreciate it.

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