When are Feeds Updated?
FeedLounge uses a smart algorithm to determine when each feed is updated.
- We take the average time between posts for each feed and update the feed at twice that interval. If a feed has a new item every 2 hours, we update the feed every 1 hour. New feeds are updated every hour until the average posting time is determined.
- No feed is updated more often than every 30 minutes.
- No feed is updated less frequently than every 2 hours.
You can see when a feed was last updated and is scheduled to be updated again by selecting the feed and clicking the Info button.
Last modified: 2006-08-23 00:35:47 GMT
If you guys want pings from Ping-O-Matic let me know.
Are you caching the feeds? Of course you are but if you are why not refresh some of the most popular feeds more often? Especially since those most popular feeds have about 5-10 feeds per 1/2 hour.
Would a paid service allow for user refreshes?
I just like to know that I have the most current feed available.
30 minutes is likely the most often we’ll refresh for anything - for example Slashdot will ban you if you refresh more often than that.
And Slashdot is right to do that, too. All those pings just don’t scale.
Or you can always honor the TTL tag where exists.
More info here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltttlgtSubelementOfLtchannelgt