Perhaps it's not fair to say the *hub* is sensitive to small changes, but that some publishers may be more update-happy than others.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Ravi Pinjala <[email protected]> wrote: > > Most likely this is the same issue I ran into a few weeks ago. First, > PubSubHubbub only sends the changes to a feed, not the whole feed, so you > would only see a few updates at a time. Second, the hub is sensitive to even > small changes such as the number of comments on a story if the feed contains > that information, so it may seem like it's giving a lot of duplicate updates > for a few items. > > --Ravi > > > Waleed wrote: > >> I'm testing out Google hub by subscribing to the TechCrunch feed, >> which does list "pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" as it's hub. I'm seeing >> something odd about the notifications I'm getting. There are missing >> articles, and a couple old articles are being sent again and again. >> Here is a list of the notifications I received listing the post titles >> in each one: >> >> >> 11-12 04:38PM: (first notification from the hub) >> title = "Facebook VP Leaves A Lover Letter For Apple", >> title = "Incsub Launches WP Plugins; App Store For WordPress >> Plugins", >> title = "Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay >> (Invites)", >> >> 11-12 04:44PM: >> title = "Myxer Delivers 10 Million Ringtones To iPhone Users", >> title = "Incsub Launches WP Plugins; App Store For WordPress >> Plugins", >> title = "Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay >> (Invites)", >> >> 11-12 04:54PM: >> title = "Facebook VP Leaves A Love Letter For Apple", >> title = "Incsub Launches WP Plugins; App Store For WordPress >> Plugins", >> title = "Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay >> (Invites)", >> >> 11-12 05:01PM: >> title = "Incsub Launches WP Plugins; App Store For WordPress >> Plugins", >> title = "Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay >> (Invites)", >> >> >> In comparison, here is the list of titles as I see them when I view >> the feed at (http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch) >> >> Facebook VP Leaves A Love Letter For Apple >> The ScamVille Lawsuit: Facebook, MySpace, Zynga And More Face Possible >> Class Action Suit >> Should Nintendo Fear The Apple Juggernaut? >> Pingdom Says People Are Tweeting 27 Million Times A Day >> Google Announces Acquisition of Gizmo5. They Now Have A Soft Phone For >> Google Voice >> Forbes Media Acquires Digital Photo Magazine FlipGloss >> Flickr Outsources Printing To Snapfish >> First Rule Of Facebook Connect: You Do Talk About Fight Club >> MySpace Hires Some Social Smarts From LinkedIn >> For Charity: Foursquare Looking For Leaderboard Sponsors >> Crazy ComScore Charts: LinkedIn Shoots Up Past Twitter >> Vitamin D Turns Your Webcam Into A Virtual Doorman >> SPDY Gonzales: Google Continues Its Push To Take The Web To Breakneck >> Speeds >> Trouble At Twitter: U.S. Visitors Down 8 Percent In October >> Twitter, Facebook Come To Xbox 360 On Nov. 17 >> Video: Hands-on With the Chumby One >> YouTube Succumbs To Branding As Warner Music Begins Its Return >> No Need To Wrap Your Blog Post In A Tweet, Just Sync It With MySpace >> That $1.25 Billion Settlement With AMD? It’s About 12 Days Of Revenue >> For Intel. >> Google Wave Declutters The Inbox With Following Feature >> Video: Fox News Takes On Violent Video Games. Again. >> Cleaning House Before Its IPO Will Cost AOL $200 Million And Up To >> 1,000 Jobs >> Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay (Invites) >> Incsub Launches WP Plugins; App Store For WordPress Plugins >> SpotiChart Picks Up Spotify Tweets, Charts Music Trends On The Fly >> >> >> >> You'll notice that the hub keeps sending two of the old posts with >> every notification, while skipping some of the new posts. Am I doing >> something wrong? >> >> Thanks, >> Waleed >> >> >> >> > > -- Jeff Lindsay http://webhooks.org -- Make the web more programmable http://shdh.org -- A party for hackers and thinkers http://tigdb.com -- Discover indie games http://progrium.com -- More interesting things
