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Authored by: alblue on May 13, '05 12:09:30PM

Is this just a way of increasing traffic to the site? Or can the RSS feeds be increased to show more than the last 10 items? :-)



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Authored by: Septimus on May 13, '05 12:25:20PM

..either way, I appreciate the heads-up!



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Authored by: diamondsw on May 13, '05 01:34:57PM

Agreed - the RSS feed needs to be longer. I'd have no problem with 20 or 25.

MacUpdate has the same problem, as it's limited to 25 and that can get overwhelmed between midnight and when I wake up.



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Authored by: robg on May 13, '05 02:14:39PM

This discussion appears each time I run a heads-up like this :). The basic answer is:

Increasing the size of the RSS feed would cost me a *lot* in terms of the bandwidth hit -- for the month of April, the RSS feed alone used 35GB of bandwidth. So if I double it, I'll be up to 70GB (more, probably, given the growth since Tiger shipped). And soon, we'll be caught up with the initial Tiger rush, and back down to the typical daily levels of five to 10 stories, so there won't be any need for the 20 hint feed.

The real answer, it seems, is that I need to find the time to get the site updated to the newest Geeklog -- it has some time-to-live options on RSS that should help it ebb and flow with demand. It's on my list of things to get done, but it's truly a herculean project, so I just need a good large chunk of time in which to get it done.

I'll think about it this weekend; perhaps I'll double the feed size for the next 30 days or so...assuming I can't get Geeklog updated within that timeframe.

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Authored by: GEllenburg on May 13, '05 04:56:07PM

Rob,

Why not just set Geeklog's RSS feeds to only shows new posts within the past 24 hours?

THat will save you a ton of bandwidth, and take care of n number of new posts for any given day.

Cheers.

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Authored by: robg on May 13, '05 04:57:13PM

Because I lack such skills? :)

The new Geeklog apparently has that as an option; I just need to get the upgrade done. Or at least look at enough to steal that bit of RSS code...

-rob.



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Authored by: GEllenburg on May 13, '05 08:52:28PM

The feature is available in the current version of Geeklog that you're running. Email me off-list and I will be more than happy to show you where it's at. ;-)

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Authored by: Jwink3101 on May 14, '05 12:32:31AM

I think 10 is more than understandable for one reason. 35 gigs is a lot of bandwidth to give. It wouldn't be that much except that these RSS feeds don;t have ads.

Maybe you should put small adds in the feeds and then increase the number. Engadget does it and it is very tasteful and unobtrusive,



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Authored by: Tom Robinson on May 15, '05 03:25:26PM

Have I misunderstood? Under NetNewsWire Lite it did seem the display was limited by the site's feed, but under Safari's RSS feed all the history is there.



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