On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:02, Denise Paolucci <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Charmian wrote: > >> Also, on LJ, creating an RSS feed is a paid-user only feature. On >> Dreamwidth, will it also be paid users only? > > -- Everyone on Dreamwidth will be able to create syndicated accounts. > We may have to revisit this later (or, more reasonably, turn down the > rate at which we check the feeds for updates) for performance > reasons, but we hope we won't have to.
Hmm... I remember when LiveJournal started implementing syndicated accounts, there was a points system where you could only add "x" points' worth of syndicated accounts to your friends list, where popular accounts where cheaper and ones that only you (or only a couple of people) watched were the most "expensive", to control the number of feeds that existed at once -- and I think this was done to control the bandwidth (and/or CPU load?). So I wouldn't underestimate the effects of lots of syndicated feeds -- particularly if you're planning on creating dozens of them at a time as a matter of course, each time you import a journal from another site. (But I don't have any numbers.) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
