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Or I suppose you could just find all "Content-type: application/rss+xml" in CC.
I know in the past, when I was looking for large lists of RSS feeds, I didn't really find what I was looking for.
Back when I was young, websites had this icon you could click that would take you straight to their RSS feed. You young whipper snappers have gone an fucked that up. Actually, I think it was Google's fault. When they killed their RSS reader people pronounced RSS dead so people just stopped publishing RSS feeds or just didn't link to them. * Yes, I know the article talks about the RSS icon, i'm just soapboxing.
Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the browser. It was too good to last. RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS. What does work well (and how things have evolved) is to ha…
Who's updating their RSS feeds once an hour 24 hours a day?
Anyway, a very popular site with that many millions of visitors already has to handle extreme traffic, regardless of RSS.
Back when I was young, websites had this icon you could click that would take you straight to their RSS feed. You young whipper snappers have gone an fucked that up. Actually, I think it was Google's fault. When they killed their RSS reader people pronounced RSS dead so people just stopped publishing RSS feeds or just didn't link to them. * Yes, I know the article talks about the RSS icon, i'm just soapboxing.
Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the browser. It was too good to last. RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS. What does work well (and how things have evolved) is to ha…
I use the Awesome RSS add-on for that in Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/
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Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the browser. It was too good to last. RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS. What does work well (and how things have evolved) is to ha…
> RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS. Who's updating their RSS feeds once an hour 24 hours a day? Anyway, a very popular site with that many millions of visitors already has to handle extreme traffic, regardless of RSS.
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Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the browser. It was too good to last. RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS. What does work well (and how things have evolved) is to ha…
> RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS. Who's updating their RSS feeds once an hour 24 hours a day? Anyway, a very popular site with that many millions of visitors already has to handle extreme traffic, regardless of RSS.
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Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the browser. It was too good to last. RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS. What does work well (and how things have evolved) is to ha…
> RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself The readers often cache the result for all users of the same feed. The only exception are readers that are running 100% locally. In that case using Etag or Last-Modified will make each request cheap and manageble.
https://github.com/begriffs/findrss
The combinations came from what I observed in the big list of blogs I follow. The script works pretty well for most sites.
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> RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS. Who's updating their RSS feeds once an hour 24 hours a day? Anyway, a very popular site with that many millions of visitors already has to handle extreme traffic, regardless of RSS.
Surely this is solved by putting RSS behind Cloudflare.