[solid_fuel]

> Her problems are the problems of a polling-based protocol and really if she does not like the RSS protocol she should stop publishing it and stand up an ActivityPub or PubSubHubBub service instead.

Bit odd to take potshots at a third party blog on this discussion, why single out Rachel?

And more to the point, the dynamics here might be due to RSS being polling-based, but if feed readers implemented the RSS logic correctly it wouldn't matter nearly as much, would it?

[PaulHoule]

(1) Rachel complains more than most. Most people realize it is easier for you to speed up your server/lower your costs than to expect people to implement RSS "correctly"

(2) You can use a cache or be correct, pick one! I think of all the lame cache busting methods that are still in use because it took web browsers more than 15 years to get caching mostly right.

(3) If you'd been reading Rachel as opposed to asking why I pointed Rachel out your questions would be answered!

(4) Polling based systems come in two speeds: too fast and too slow and it is possible to be both at the same time

[oliculipolicula]

"Rael"

(1) is gender-proportionate

(2) Helps people to see that the phenom is more general. applies to any quasisocial SaaS that has an underappreciated hardtech moat or 90% learn-by-doing experts go for suboptimal tradeoffs which noobs would never consider.

(3) Maybe "complains" should be "insists", or even softer "maintains"