RSS feed not updating fast enough

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Permalink Reply by Marlene on December 4, 2008 at 1:35pm

I am also using Google Reader. It seems to work pretty good for me. However I do have to click the refresh button at the top every time I visit and it will display activity from under a minute.

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Permalink Reply by Marlene on December 4, 2008 at 1:38pm

Ok - except for now. I just went back to Google Reader and hit refresh and the latest activity is from 16 minutes ago: (mTnsmith replied to the discussion Top to Bottom).

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Permalink Reply by phrog on December 4, 2008 at 1:52pm

I hit refresh and got a post from Boo Boo @ 12:46 PM (1 hour ago)
Google and other web readers cache weird when there is no TTL.

I noticed this when I hacked in the RSS feed for http://steamboatforums.com a while back.

A good example is to load both http://steamboatforms.com and http://my.steamboat.com RSS feeds together in Google reader and watch the behavior.

hope this is helpful. :)

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Permalink Reply by Steamboat on December 4, 2008 at 2:43pm

Will look into that and post back here. Unfortunately it's not going to be near the top of my work queue for a few weeks. FWIW, I use newsgator to aggregate my feeds and they've seem to have done a very good job of ironing out all of the quirks that exist in semi-defined soup of RSS 1.0, 2.0, Atom, and the variety of servers and readers. That, and using the best newsreader in the universe (NetNewsWire on Mac & iPhone) makes all my RSS flow smoothly and quickly.

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