@vincent Indeed. And it’s really one of those things that would never bother me, had I not known. It’s not like my life depends on it, but the whole system seems unfair to those who have smaller blogs. I have no idea at all about the mechanics of feed fetching and whatnot, of course 🙂
@maique Surprised more RSS services don’t do this. No need to hammer a site for updates when they only publish infrequently, Used to be ways to ping an aggregator service and let it know, “hey new content come read my feed”. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebS... was one way.
@maique Sad that NewsBlur is making their technology for their internal engineering and not for the humans who are using their service. As an analogy: If I have a busy friend who only has time to talk once a month, that makes their one phone call more important than another who calls me multiple times a day.
@mcg That's exactly what everyone should be using, as far as I can tell. It's not a deal breaker, of course, but it's nice to know things are available as fast as possible, on principle.
@gregmoore Not sure this is the case. They are actually being polite to services that don’t update frequently. Frequently polling a site that doesn’t publish often could be considered bad practice.