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dave
dave

Another test post. Let’s see if this shows up in the time timeline immediately. )

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dave
dave

The new post showed up within a minute of it being posted. Is that “immediate?”

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dave
dave

Here’s the current source for the script that publishes from Drummer to Micro.blog.

gist.github.com/scripting


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sod
sod

@dave Could be the static website build step that takes about a minute, maybe? You might get more intel if you keep an eye on the logs while you’re experimenting. You should see the build process there, as well as the fetching of feeds for updating the timeline.

By the way, the Micro.blog timeline supports rssCloud. đŸ„ł (But Micro.blog hosted blogs don’t have the cloud element in their feeds.)

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dave
dave

@sod – thanks for the link to the logs! that’ll help. and yes I discovered that they support rssCloud for incoming feed. i was very glad to see it supported.

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sod
sod

@pratik Sorry for the late reply, I meant to answer back then but forgot about it. đŸ«Ł rssCloud enables feed readers (like the Micro.blog timeline) to get real-time notifications when a feed updates. This is nifty for people subscribing to the feed: they don’t have to wait minutes or hours to see new posts – they will show up instantly.

For this to work, the feed reader and the feed publisher have to implement support for rssCloud. The Micro.blog timeline has support, but Micro.blog-hosted blogs don’t.

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sod
sod

@pratik Micro.blog hosted blog’s import functionality is something separate from the Micro.blog timeline. That feature could in theory support rssCloud for real-time imports from external sources like Letterboxd. Maybe it does. Or it may just do it the old fashion way, checking these feeds every five minutes, every hour, or whatever @manton feels appropriate.

The statement “Micro.blog hosted blogs don’t have the cloud element in their feeds” is about the other direction. People subscribing to your Micro.blog hosted blog can’t get real-time updates via rssCloud, because Micro.blog-hosted blogs don’t have support for that in their feeds.

Puh. Now I’m going to avoid typing the word blog for a while. 😅

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manton
manton

@sod @pratik Good summary, thanks. Relatively few services support rssCloud right now, so Micro.blog will usually just check feeds like Letterboxd every few minutes.

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sod
sod

@pratik Yep, you’re absolutely right, rssCloud (and simillary WebSub) are for people who want close to real-time notifications from feeds. And for developers, as these protocols make it possible to build more efficient feed readers. Manton writes about that in the WebSub chapter of his book.

If you’re not a developer nor a person caring about real-time updates, you can safely ignore rssCloud and similar technologies. 😊

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