Missing IronMan posts?

We’ve seen a report of posts missing from the aggregator which I’ve finally had chance to look into this evening. Thanks specifically to Curtis Jewell for bringing this to our attention via mst.

The problem stems from the assumption (you know this is going to be good…) that the authors field retrieved from a post should not be null. Indeed, this seems sensible, but there seem to be a number of feeds that don’t observe this for some reason (which I frankly don’t care about, especially now I have a different way to assume it).

If the author field on a post is undefined, it is now taken from the title given to your feed when you signed up for IronMan. This seems to be the sensible fall back in the absence of the data on the feed.

As always, comments appreciated.

Ian & the IronMan dev team.