RSS Board Feed not showing most recent boards first

[DJDevon3]

I would like to see the RSS feed in the top right corner of the CircuitPython.org website to be updated with the latest added boards. This means sorting the RSS feed in chronological order. Most people expect an RSS feed to be in chronological order.

The alphabetical RSS feed gives the appearance of not being updated since May 2023 if the expectation is that an RSS feed is in chronological order. It gives the appearance of a dead RSS feed.

[dhalbert]

So we would sort it by <pubDate>, most recent first.

[makermelissa]

Yeah, that RSS feed is NOT sorting correctly.

[FoamyGuy]

I think one way to change this is with the loop here:

circuitpython-org/feed.html

Line 11 in ec8c704

{% for board in site.board %}

This jekyl template docs page shows an example of ording by a specified field: https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/jekyll-pages-novice/arrays/index.html unfortunately it doesn't seem to have anchors for direct linking and it's near the bottom of the page, here is an excerpt of the relevant code:

{% assign sorted_posts = site.blogposts | sort: "author" %}
{% for post in sorted_posts %}

There is a warning that the sort operations with the | operator are not supported directly in the for loop so it must assign a new sorted list and then iterate over that.

[DJDevon3]

Today is March 22, 2024 so this looks to be updated with the latest boards. Now I have an RSS feed for CircuitPython.org latest added boards. This is great! Thank you.