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I know she's mentioned this particular problem before on her blog, I don't remember where to find it offhand now but my vague recollection is that because brows
by lilyball 2y ago
I know she's mentioned this particular problem before on her blog, I don't remember where to find it offhand now but my vague recollection is that because browsers have largely removed the ability to directly view RSS feeds she doesn't consider this a significant issue anymore.
Why did you view the XML file directly?
- elashri 2y ago> Why did you view the XML file directly? There are many reasons why I do personally this. 1- Check that the link actually loads and works! 2- See how much content and does it contain last n or all feed history by default 3- To see if the feed gives summary or full content of posts 4- Just for curiosity like in this case I wanted to see what is this feed that prompted a blog post that reached HN front page. It is usually a superposition state of those reasons. But this is why it is aggressive limit and I know it her server her rulee but this wasn't pleasant experience for me as an end user. I was just sharing my experience.
- kelnos 2y agoI feel like a reasonable way to deal with this situation might be to look at the user agent: if two requests come from the same IP but different user agents, then it's likely that it's either actually two completely different people (behind a NAT), or this situation the GP described. That's certainly a bit more effort to implement, though, and the author night not think it's worth the time.