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Skud, etc.Skud, etc.Posted Aug 28, 2009 21:03 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Skud, etc. by Skud Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software The comments are useful. Per-article feeds have been requested before; I mostly just fear bogging down the server with requests for feeds from comment streams which haven't changed in years. RSS readers never seem to give up. Charging for anything makes us stand out. But thousands of people seem to think it's worth it.
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Skud, etc. Posted Aug 28, 2009 21:05 UTC (Fri) by Skud (guest, #59840) [Link]
I don't know how big your subscriber base is, but it seems odd to me that RSS feeds bog you down when they don't for other large blogs.
Anyway. If you have enough subscribers who think it's worth paying for email notifications, more power to you. You don't need me :)
Skud, etc. Posted Aug 28, 2009 21:10 UTC (Fri) by Skud (guest, #59840) [Link]
Why don't you channel your main RSS feeds through feedburner.com? In addition to taking most of the load, it gives you some very useful stats about your readership.
Decent RSS readers have exponential backoff if feeds haven't changed lately. If people are using ill-behaved readers, block them. This will not block any of the major players.
Skud, etc. Posted Aug 28, 2009 22:35 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Unfortunately it will I think block Akregator 3.5.x, which is still heavily used by KDE users. That's probably bad for a Linux news site :/
Skud, etc. Posted Aug 29, 2009 11:36 UTC (Sat) by Skud (guest, #59840) [Link]
Good thing Akregator is open source, and that someone can fix it :)
Skud, etc. Posted Aug 29, 2009 22:06 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Akregator 3.5.x is also maintenance-dead. I very much doubt anyone will bother to add new features like this to it. (4.x is the New Thing but a lot of people haven't migrated yet.)
Skud, etc. Posted Sep 6, 2009 8:19 UTC (Sun) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]
If the feed hasn't changed in ages, surely an IMS request to check if it
changed doesn't impose much load on the server?
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