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by Hovertruck 4672 days ago
> On average, 98.5% of polls are wasted

Erm. Is there a source for that?

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A bit further down the page, they cite Zapier

"Over a representative time period, Zapier polled for changes 30 million times but only took action on 460,000 of those polls (1.5% efficient)."

It's a Zapier project, so they're citing themselves.

https://github.com/zapier/resthooks

Ah, I must've missed that. Thanks!
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