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Is RSS Doomed by Popularity?

Posted by samzenpus on from the more-than-you-can-chew dept.

Ketchup_blade writes "As RSS is becoming more known to the mainstream users and press, the bandwidth issue reported by many sites (Eweek, CNet, InternetNews) related to feeds is becoming a reality. Stats from sites like Boing Boing are showing a real concern regarding feeds bandwidth usage. Possible solutions to this problem are emerging slowly, like RSScache (feed caching proxy) and KnowNow (even-driven syndication). RSScache seems to offer a realistic solution to the problem, but can this be enough to help RSS as it reaches an even bigger user base in the upcoming year?"

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  1. Should all sites... by romcabrera · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...do as Slashdot?
    Ban everyone querying its RSS feed more than once a hour?

  2. Limiting by Kizzle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do most sites have sort of limit to how many times you can access the RSS feed in a given period of time? It seems like limiting requests to once an hour would cut down bandwidth considerably. There is always those people who think they need up to the second updates.

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  3. What About... by the_mad_poster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Okay, what about a distributed RSS feeder system?

    Say you have 100 people who want to get feeds from 10 sites. Regular RSS has 100 people hitting each of those sites once per minute. They all get the same data.

    However, if you have a system where a group of people all want the same site feeds, you could group them by their interest in sites. Within the pool, only x% of the sites interested in, for example, eweek.com would request the feed. Then, they would be available to distribute the feed to y% of the sites who would distribute to z% of the sites until everyone in the pool is up to date.

    The same goes for other sites. Another subgroup in that pool would pick up slashdot.org and distribute that out to the rest of the pool in waves.

    It doesn't change the overall bandwidth used, but it does decentralize it a great deal.

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  4. Torrents by cartzworth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How about the development of an RSS torrent? Lets decentralize they entire concept.

  5. Re:RSSoP2P? by cyfer2000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Same here. It should be a good choice.

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