Comment on Help : Self-Hosting RSS Feed for my blog (pls)
exu@feditown.com 1 week agoPer the RSS specification the guid field is optional.
And if you do want to provide it, any string works. So just count up from 1, use the title, current date or whatever for that field.
486@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I thought this had to be an actual UUID. Generating a unique string of arbitrary format manually is certainly much easier to do manually without additional tools.