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72 requests per day _per user with a naive feed reader_. This is a small personal blog with no ads that OP is self-hosting on her own hardware, so blocking all
by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
72 requests per day _per user with a naive feed reader_. This is a small personal blog with no ads that OP is self-hosting on her own hardware, so blocking all this junk traffic is probably saving her money. Plus she's calling attention to how feed readers can be improved!
- that_guy_iain 2y agoEven if they had 1000 feed readers which would be a massive amount for a blog, if you can't scale that cheaply, that's on you. As I pointed out, her blog and rate limiting are an extreme edge case, it would be silly for anyone to put effort into changing their feed reader for a single small blog. It's bad product management.
- tecleandor 2y agoOf course she can. It's static. She doesn't want and I understand. She's signaling their clients an standard call to say "I think you already have read this, at lest ask me first when this changed the last time".
- that_guy_iain 2y agoIf you choose to run a poorly implemented rss feed and not scale it cheaply you lose any sympathy from me.
- EdwardDiego 2y agoSo long as you know what If-Modified-Since is, and use it, you can have all or none of the sympathy you want.
- m3047 2y agoMy reason for smacking stuff down is that I don't want to see it in my logs. That simple.