Thanks Roman, I appreciate your help and work on improving reliability.
On Thursday, August 16, 2012 6:51:41 AM UTC-7, Roman Perepelitsa wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Williams <[email protected]<javascript:> > > 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. >
