They're using feedburner, but I believe they ping feedburner directly (via XML-RPC pings).
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Julien Genestoux <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey! > Slashdot is using Feedburner? or are they pinging the hub independently? > Cheers! > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Brett Slatkin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> Just a heads up that I finally fixed the handling of RSS1.0/RDF feeds >> in the reference hub. Though RSS2 feeds have worked since early 2009 >> (and so have 0.91/0.92 feeds), some fraction of 1.0/RDF feeds were >> generating no events. The fix I deployed means that old-school >> formatted feeds like Slashdot >> (http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot) should be delivering >> without issue now. The new code also fixes poorly formatted RDF feeds >> (that try to be like RSS2, with <item> elements under //rdf/channel) >> so they validate as RSS 1.0 (with items under //rdf). >> >> Let me know if you see any new issues. >> >> -Brett > >
