rssCloud Update

November 5, 2009

Joseph Scott

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.

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  1. Dave Winer Nov 5th at 5:13 pm

    Thanks Joseph!

    Looking forward to what’s coming next..

    Dave

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  2. just ME Nov 5th at 5:22 pm

    Gärna Tack! Just ME

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  3. VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in Nov 5th at 5:23 pm

    I am always keeping an eye! 😀

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  4. Moses Nov 5th at 5:29 pm

    They’re GRRRRRRREAT! – Tony the Tiger

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  5. RandomizeME Nov 5th at 5:42 pm

    Okay, I think I missed 85% of the technical stuff in this post… except that people are using the feature.

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  6. Mary Nov 5th at 5:48 pm

    Always love the stats! 🙂

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  7. sylviahubbard1 Nov 5th at 7:49 pm

    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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  8. ratheesanyoganathan Nov 5th at 8:00 pm

    wow….. its really nice

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  9. Roberto Nov 5th at 8:10 pm

    Thanks!

    I hope someday we all use the RSS system to make the life simpler and better 😉

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  10. julien51 Nov 5th at 8:26 pm

    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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  11. lune Nov 5th at 8:31 pm

    didn’t understand a word of that, but anyway, GO GUYS!

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  12. danielstorer Nov 5th at 8:42 pm

    This should be interesting!

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  13. bundadontworry Nov 5th at 8:57 pm

    thank you Joseph.
    it’s really great one.
    best regards.

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  14. lovighost Nov 5th at 9:21 pm

    Cool! Thanks WordPress!

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  15. mikelah Nov 5th at 9:34 pm

    Great

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  16. CandyProfessor Nov 5th at 11:17 pm

    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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  17. O. Braga Nov 5th at 11:36 pm

    Outstanding!

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  19. jobaspirations Nov 5th at 11:46 pm

    I definitely find the cloud a useful tool.

    Thanks for the update.

    Job Pursuer.

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  20. Exodus Nov 6th at 2:33 am

    thanks heaps, WP team! 😉
    i ❤ WP!

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  21. alamendah Nov 6th at 3:53 am

    good…
    good…
    good
    thanks!

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  22. wpadvanced Nov 6th at 4:16 am

    Great News!
    Can’t wait for more announcements and things to make WordPress.com better.

    wpadvanced.

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  23. Sajib Nov 6th at 5:51 am

    You guys bought my eyes! Always keep in touch with your blog for something awesome. Damn you guys never fail.

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  24. Skip McNutt Nov 6th at 11:51 am

    Thank you for your efforts.

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  25. WordPress Seniman Lase Nov 6th at 1:14 pm

    thanks

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  26. jetcer Nov 6th at 1:56 pm

    It is an advantage for WordPress to get more followers and blogging fanatics! Keep it up for the betterment!

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  27. masterclasslady Nov 6th at 2:39 pm

    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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  28. ellyakanga Nov 6th at 3:59 pm

    absolutely love this! thanks

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  29. yarnaholic Nov 6th at 4:19 pm

    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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  30. trinaramirez Nov 6th at 4:22 pm

    good to know. thanks!

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  31. hanifjoly Nov 6th at 5:48 pm

    any tell me what is word press and what i do in word press. pleas tell any one

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  33. windsurfer02 Nov 6th at 10:21 pm

    its so fine

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  34. Shawn Nov 7th at 4:17 am

    er. This is good news right?

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  35. joker400 Nov 7th at 5:48 am

    thats great great great great …………..

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  36. Marianne Nov 7th at 7:59 am

    not understand what you mean

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  37. mg555 Nov 7th at 8:21 am

    cool

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  38. KURNIA SEPTA Nov 7th at 11:38 am

    thnks….. 🙂

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  39. dearatia Nov 7th at 5:49 pm

    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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  40. eideard Nov 7th at 8:27 pm

    As ever – thanks for making our communications with the rest of the world easier, more professional.

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  42. Jennifer Nov 8th at 8:53 am

    As always, the constant improvements to WordPress.com are much appreciated!

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  43. izzywiz Nov 8th at 9:15 am

    Cool

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  44. chinod Nov 8th at 10:23 pm

    thanks heaps, WP team!

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  45. Mike Nov 9th at 1:48 am

    Great!

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  46. alhakim Nov 9th at 1:59 am

    I’ll keep my eye on wordpress new features 😉

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  47. Anna Davies-Hedman Nov 9th at 6:33 am

    All improvemnet is good. Thank you

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  48. hahahahaa Nov 9th at 6:48 am

    cool!

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  49. 1ienj1en Nov 9th at 8:32 am

    Hl mua p kbr genk.

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  50. Yasir Imran Nov 9th at 3:46 pm

    Great feature, thanks for this

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  51. goodtimejohnny Nov 9th at 5:29 pm

    Perfect.

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  52. hungrygoat Nov 9th at 6:32 pm

    how cool is that? http://hungrygoat.wordpress.com

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  53. lovemeifyoudear Nov 9th at 7:59 pm

    nice

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  55. Vadi Nov 10th at 1:24 am

    First time I’m hearing about push notifications. Sounds interesting.

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  56. pipeinformatico Nov 10th at 5:16 am

    Thanks!
    Hugs from Chile!

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  57. sajidahmed441 Nov 10th at 12:31 pm

    cool it is

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  58. soulresponsibility Nov 10th at 3:53 pm

    um, I guesse this is good news then? !!!!!!!!

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  59. eastendbella Nov 10th at 5:21 pm

    Great! Thanks for the update

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  60. mercadoatualizado Nov 10th at 7:20 pm

    Nice!!!!

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  61. christian1parent Nov 11th at 8:52 am

    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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  62. Andy Nov 13th at 2:56 am

    Thanks for the information. I believe this would be of great help…

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  63. artist01 Nov 14th at 12:52 pm

    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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  64. Razka Nov 14th at 6:59 pm

    thx Joseph Scott.great job.

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  65. chlara Nov 17th at 7:31 am

    i didn’t understand anything.. but would like to know what this is all about..
    Can someone explain?

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  66. kistianlize Nov 17th at 4:34 pm

    ok, thanks for the “cake”. hope we always be better than before. GBU.
    regards.

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  67. klipingcliping Nov 18th at 6:39 am

    Thank’s, enjoy going to word’s with you

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  68. kiran4it Nov 19th at 11:26 am

    I think RSS makes our life easier on WWW

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