[remram]

I always want to upvote RSS discussions, but damn this is a bad article. The numbers are wrong (feed fetches can be deduplicated and 15min is a silly number), the arguments are wrong (Firefox had a local RSS client, how could it waste server resources), the pretense that Facebook is the web (might have made sense 10 years ago). The ramble about push being disorganized, I can't parse at all.

Then it hits us with an ad for what seems to be an RSS client SaaS (a real one, not the strawman they critiqued). Wtf?

[akurilov]

Exact numbers don't matter, because there's a tradeoff. When polling, longer refresh period means longer minimum delay as well.

Firefox is a bad example, I agree. But anyway RSS declines.

RSS client service solves the polling issue gracefully. It polls once for many clients. Also, Awakari is not an RSS client, it's agnostic and proven to be able to consume other source types

[akurilov]

I would say Awakari is a polling terminator and content filter