rssCloud Update
Two months ago we turned on support for rssCloud on WordPress.com. Today we’re announcing some improvements.
Initially rssCloud limited update pings to the IP address that made the notification request. To get around this a domain parameter was suggested, that included a challenge mechanism to verify the notification request. WordPress.com now supports the domain parameter ( and challenge ) for rssCloud notification requests. The WordPress.org rssCloud plugin supports it as well.
An issue that was specific to WordPress.com also came up. Under certain conditions it was possible to get a cached version of an RSS feed that didn’t have the most recent post in it, even after receiving a rssCloud ping that the feed had been updated. Now we make sure the feed cache is updated before sending out an update ping.
Enough of the technical bits, how about some stats! More than 135,000 blogs hosted on WordPress.com have at least one rssCloud notification registration. During the first week of October WordPress.com sent an average of 83,000 update pings per day. Today we average more than 105,000 update pings per day.
We’re just at the beginning of the trend towards push notifications, keep an eye out for more announcements in this area.
- November 5, 2009
- Features
Thanks Joseph!
Looking forward to what’s coming next..
Dave
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Gärna Tack! Just ME
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I am always keeping an eye! 😀
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They’re GRRRRRRREAT! – Tony the Tiger
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Okay, I think I missed 85% of the technical stuff in this post… except that people are using the feature.
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Always love the stats! 🙂
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oh kay. This sounds awesome. now I have to figure out how to use my RSS cloud on my site and I know i’ll be good to go!
just wait. I’m gonna be a bad mamma jamma when it’s all said and done. LOL.
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wow….. its really nice
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Thanks!
I hope someday we all use the RSS system to make the life simpler and better 😉
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That is really awesome! For those who chose to implement the PubSubHubbub subscriber, we built a hub that maps RSSCloud into PubSubHubbub => http://wordpress.superfeedr.com/
Let me know what you think!
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didn’t understand a word of that, but anyway, GO GUYS!
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This should be interesting!
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thank you Joseph.
it’s really great one.
best regards.
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Cool! Thanks WordPress!
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Great
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I’m not sure I understand the technical stuff. So let’ s see if I’ve got this right: If someone subscribes to my feed via, say, Google reader, does this mean that if I update the post, the updated version shows up in their feed instead of the original version? Since I usually do a lot of post-posting revision (bad me!), that is a good idea!
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Outstanding!
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I definitely find the cloud a useful tool.
Thanks for the update.
Job Pursuer.
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thanks heaps, WP team! 😉
i ❤ WP!
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good…
good…
good
thanks!
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Great News!
Can’t wait for more announcements and things to make WordPress.com better.
wpadvanced.
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You guys bought my eyes! Always keep in touch with your blog for something awesome. Damn you guys never fail.
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Thank you for your efforts.
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thanks
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It is an advantage for WordPress to get more followers and blogging fanatics! Keep it up for the betterment!
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Maybe I’m just tired, but I don’t understand the technical explanation for this new feature.
It sounds wonderful and I really want to be happy about it, So, after I have my first cup of coffee, perhaps the brain cells will “kick in”. 🙂
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absolutely love this! thanks
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OK-admittedly most of the technical stuff went right over my head, but feed update pinging improvement is definitely good news, right? Go Team WordPress!
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good to know. thanks!
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any tell me what is word press and what i do in word press. pleas tell any one
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its so fine
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er. This is good news right?
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thats great great great great …………..
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not understand what you mean
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cool
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thnks….. 🙂
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Hey guys, I don’t know how must of your readers get their feeds but, I found a real cool RSS Reader very easy to use. I added a link to my blog.
http://realsimplenewsreader.com/
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As ever – thanks for making our communications with the rest of the world easier, more professional.
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As always, the constant improvements to WordPress.com are much appreciated!
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Cool
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thanks heaps, WP team!
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Great!
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I’ll keep my eye on wordpress new features 😉
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All improvemnet is good. Thank you
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cool!
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Hl mua p kbr genk.
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Great feature, thanks for this
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Perfect.
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how cool is that? http://hungrygoat.wordpress.com
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nice
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First time I’m hearing about push notifications. Sounds interesting.
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Thanks!
Hugs from Chile!
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cool it is
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um, I guesse this is good news then? !!!!!!!!
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Great! Thanks for the update
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Nice!!!!
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I am so sure that this is a really good thing, based on everyone’s comments… I don’t understand it, but KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK WordPress!!
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Thanks for the information. I believe this would be of great help…
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From these little things… big things can grow 🙂
Clouds are nice, and it sounds like its raining pings!!
Nice work team!!
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thx Joseph Scott.great job.
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i didn’t understand anything.. but would like to know what this is all about..
Can someone explain?
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Check out the earlier post RSS in the Clouds for the basics.
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ok, thanks for the “cake”. hope we always be better than before. GBU.
regards.
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Thank’s, enjoy going to word’s with you
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I think RSS makes our life easier on WWW
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