Previously the bot seeded all existing feed items on startup WITHOUT posting, so a
freshly-created channel stayed empty and new subscribers saw nothing (only items
appearing after start were posted). Now on first run it posts the latest items
(max 5) to fill the channel — recent history then shows them to joiners — and sets
an rss_populated flag so restarts don't replay. Existing (empty) bots get filled
once on next start. Update rss_test.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New rss bot type: on start it creates a broadcast channel (observer group with
recent history on) and polls a configured feed URL; new posts are broadcast to
the channel. Subscribers join the channel link (seen on the bot's profile);
direct contacts get a welcome + the latest items and can send /new for the
latest. Stdlib-only feed parsing (urllib + ElementTree), seeds existing items on
startup so it doesn't replay the whole feed. Config: feed_url, poll_seconds.
Adds rss_test.py (mock feed) — passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
