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Currently making my own social network from scratch and it's more media-based than text-based, but I love the idea of RSS feeds for everything. My only concern
by Andrex 4y ago
Currently making my own social network from scratch and it's more media-based than text-based, but I love the idea of RSS feeds for everything. My only concern would be extra bandwidth requirements if there's a ton of readers out there constantly fetching updates.
It's better than someone F5-ing a page and redownloading all the assets, but feed readers check automatically on a (usually short) timer, so it's not really comparable.
Does YouTube still offer RSS feeds? I remember those being extremely useful when they swtiched from reverse-chronological to the recommendation-driven Home feed.
- jacobobryant 4y agoYoutube does still have feeds. The bandwidth can be reduced if readers use the If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since headers when requesting feeds (so if the feed hasn't been updated, the server can return an empty response). I also imagine that as feed readers become more mainstream, you'd start to see more intermediaries for fetching feeds like Superfeedr[1]. [1] https://superfeedr.com/ https://superfeedr.com/