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Allow feeds without a valid pubDate to be added (e.g. LibriVox)
Expected behavior
Feeds without a pubDate
should still be downloadable, perhaps with a warning that things will show in feed order rather than pub order (as one would expect for an audiobook like those in LibriVox). In my use case, the pubDate
element was commented out.
At bare minimum, the error message should state why the feed cannot be added (e.g. missing pubDate!
), but ideally it'd gracefully allow one to continue.
Actual behavior
One gets an error when trying to add the feed.
Steps to reproduce the behavior
Try adding the following feed:
Source: https://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-version-5-dramatic-reading-by-mark-twain/ RSS: https://librivox.org/rss/9632 Modified RSS: https://pastebin.com/raw/m4SixrW2
Tested on web and iOS 15
This is a long-standing issue; see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/pocketcasts/comments/ekin6r/i_finally_found_ways_to_overcome_the_librivox/