On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah, good catch. It does seem to be mostly an issue with FeedBurner feeds. > Thanks for looking into it. Radar is coming through now along with > ReadWriteWeb. Still no notifications for TechCrunch, TechDirt, and GigaOm, > among other FB feeds. > > This seems to indicate true/open PubSubHubbub is not reliable when perhaps > the largest publisher has these problems? Does FeedBurner care about it > working? I'm not trying to be dramatic, but rather just trying to get a > feel for the environment as its been over a year since I did my first > client implementation and now trying to do one again. > > Not to single FeedBurner out either, because pushpress is very problematic > too, at least with the subscription process. > I feel your pain, Ryan. We are actively working on improving reliability of the hub on pubsubhubbub.appspot.com. We are also looking at the issue affecting FeedBurner feeds. I know and like Superfeedr, and it protects me from most of these issues, > but in theory it's just a little bit more work to subscribe to a feed's hub > for which there is no cost, if all is working right. > > Is it advisable or best practice with PubSubHubbub to create clients that > fallback to polling and/or use services like Superfeedr? > We are committed to making the hub very reliable so that you won't have to resort to polling. Roman.
