2023-03-21 UTC
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[tantek] aciccarello, the "thundering herd" effect has been a problem for any push-based system. E.g. Atom+PuSH(WebSub). sites used to also go down when feed readers all polled their feeds at the same time. That (and analytics) drove the creation of feed proxies like Feedburner, to take the load off the original publisher.