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by Isofarro 4777 days ago
> The 5 rss feed limit is part of our business model. Feeds consume resources and resources cost money.

Unique feeds consume resources. Two customers following the same feed should not double the resources needed to support that feed.

Create a test account that follows the top 10-20 of public feeds already followed by your existing users. That will not consume any more resources (apart from the overhead of an extra row in your users table). Let that be the demo account.

Actually, since you're presenting reading lists as a feature, a demo/guest account can probably just subscribe to that. Then there's the resource overhead of supporting reading list(s) per account.