> i don’t think rss comes close to scaling. every single subscriber will poll every single thing every 30 minutes (or whatever). Well-behaved RSS clients send

> i don’t think rss comes close to scaling. every single subscriber will poll every single thing every 30 minutes (or whatever). Well-behaved RSS clients send a conditional request and in most cases receive an HTTP 304 Not Modified response. > this was a crushing amount of traffic 20 years ago when the web was much, much smaller… It was?