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

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

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

gist.github.com/scripting…

@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.

@sod

the Micro.blog timeline supports rssCloud. 🥳 (But Micro.blog hosted blogs don’t have the cloud element in their feeds.)

What does this mean?

@pratik Sorry for the late reply, I meant to answer back then but forgot about it. 🫣 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.

@sod That’s interesting. But if Micro.blog blogs don’t support it, how do posts from Letterboxd, etc work? Micro.blog now lets us import them as posts. Earlier, it was only on the timeline

@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. 😅

@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.

@sod Thanks for that summary. At my end, it feels more or less real-time as when Micro.blog checks feeds for my blog, and with the new import feature, instead of merely posting on the timeline, this is a solved problem in my eyes. Maybe rssCloud is something that may be useful for others. @manton

@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. 😊