Sounds like something the hub can do: make sure not to send the exact same
data more than once.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Waleed Abdulla <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Ravi and Jeff for pointing me in the right direction. I did find the
> cause of the issue, and it turned out to be an advertisement that TC puts at
> the end of each post and it rotates between two messages. It's probably (and
> I'm guessing here) inserted using a Wordpress plugin that updates the
> content of the post periodically.
>
> It would be nice to be able to filter those updates out, but they look
> exactly like content updates (because they are), and therefore will create
> unnecessary load. Oh, well.
>
>
>
>
>  On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Jeff Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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
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>>
>
>


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