If there was a bug in someone's feed generating software, it could generate a feed where their entire backlog of entries all appeared with today's date. This would cause Brief to download thousands of unwanted entries, which may be significant if they all contained pictures.
I have never seen such a bug like this happen, and I probably wouldn't miss this feature of Brief if it didn't exist (or if it was just an optional global setting), but I can imagine someone will one day try to export and import an RSS feed and the importer will fail to parse the date, and default to "today".
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If there was a bug in someone's feed generating software, it could generate a feed where their entire backlog of entries all appeared with today's date. This would cause Brief to download thousands of unwanted entries, which may be significant if they all contained pictures.
I have never seen such a bug like this happen, and I probably wouldn't miss this feature of Brief if it didn't exist (or if it was just an optional global setting), but I can imagine someone will one day try to export and import an RSS feed and the importer will fail to parse the date, and default to "today".
Keep up the good work on your excellent software.