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WebSub is not a RSS replacement, but enhancement. It's not created to be used by the end user directly. Such web feed management providers as FeedBurner[1] are
by krn 8y ago
WebSub is not a RSS replacement, but enhancement. It's not created to be used by the end user directly. Such web feed management providers as FeedBurner[1] are pulling feeds from the origin no more than a few times per hour, causing a delay for the end user. With WebSub, publishers can update their FeedBurner feeds in real-time.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner
- antpls 8y agoWhat makes you think people want news in real time? By the way, we can also have news in real-time by pulling RSS directly from the sources, like every 2 minutes
- onli 8y agoWhat you are proposing is by definition not real time, it is not scalable (not on the source side, not on the client side, and not traffic wise), and it is not fast enough for things like getting notified of a new chat message where this scheme can be used as well. And people do want real time there, and often enough for news as well.
- antpls 8y agoSo basically, this is IRC, but the initial authors were removed, and the whole thing is less efficient because it runs over HTTP. At some point you have to go outside of the HTTP world and look for what already exists rather than reinventing the wheel. Does it solve news delivery ? RSS do that already. Does it solve instant notification and presence notification? Lower protocols already do that with lower overhead.