Tumblr product engineer.
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Xanga apparently has an option to disable your RSS feed. Instead of just returning a 404 on the feed URL though, they generate a feed with a post that says “This blog has disabled their RSS feed.”
Kinda weird, but here is the kicker: the pseudo-post’s published time is the current time. Which, of course, means that any time you crawl a disabled Xanga feed it will always show that was updated. Fun!
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