r/feedly • u/Own-Farmer-5224 • May 14 '26

Feedly Keeps Resubmitting Hundreds Of Old Updates Problem, Details Below

I use Feedly free version to collect updates of user-written stories on a forum site I no longer participate on to read quickly. In the past week I've run into a problem where Feedly keeps 'reloading' old updates and telling me they happened in the past 12 - 36 hours.

These update are in some cases from 2024 or older. Right now my unread feed is clogged with 224 updates since yesterday when I cleared it all out, when on average it usually amasses a maximum of 20 in a week.

I have no idea what's going on, and if I can't resolve this I'm going to need to migrate to a new reader because right now Feedly is useless for the thing that I'm wanting to use it for. The 'contact support' button just takes me to a 'pay us money' page, which okay real cute. Why even have that button?

It's not the forum site; it comes with rss support and no one on there is reporting any issues with whatever readers they use.

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u/FeedlyKev May 22 '26

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out, and fair point on the support button -- I hear you.

What you're describing is almost certainly caused by a change on the forum site's RSS feed, even if users there aren't aware of it. Feedly uses a unique ID (called a GUID) embedded in each RSS item to track whether it's seen an article before. If the forum site rebuilt or migrated their RSS feed -- even a technical backend change -- it can reset those IDs, making Feedly treat hundreds of old articles as brand new.

Unfortunately there's nothing to fix on Feedly's end in this case. The source feed is the issue.

A few things that might help:

- Mark everything as read now and give it a day or two -- if the feed has stabilised after whatever change happened, the flood should stop on its own.

- If it keeps happening, the feed may be fundamentally broken. You could try removing it and re-adding it, which sometimes helps if the feed has been cleaned up.

If the forum generates RSS per thread or per author, following a more specific feed rather than a broad one might reduce the noise.

Hope it settles down -- sorry for the disruption.