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It appears to be accomplishing this using tight polling (from my investigation with FireBug). Interesting and useful, but not exactly innovative from what I can

• brlewis 17y ago
  What's interesting is that new posts are added to the search index in real time. Twitter used to have this (Track) but couldn't scale it; they're testing it and may reintroduce it. For FriendFeed to have put this out I think they must be confident it can scale.
  • sho 17y ago
    "For FriendFeed to have put this out I think they must be confident it can scale." I am not sure FriendFeed has to worry too hard about that yet, compared to Twitter: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendfeed.com+twitter.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendfeed.com+twitter.com/
    • pclark 17y ago
      yet.
    • brlewis 17y ago
      Friendfeed does have to think about it compared to Twitter at the time they removed Track, more than a year ago. Even then Twitter had more traffic, but it wasn't nearly as dramatic a difference as in the more recent part of that graph.
• paul 17y ago
  I'm not sure what you mean by "tight polling", but we basically keep a connection open to the server at all times (often known as "long polling"). This is similar to how IM works. You can pause it by pressing the pause button on the top-right of the feed.
  • jazzychad 17y ago
    Ah, I see you can pause it only if you are logged in. The jsonp requests I was seeing in FireBug did not exhibit the normal kind of long polling behavior I have seen on other sites, so I might have been wrong. Apologies.