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:
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> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Williams <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
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>> 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.
>

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