Again on feeds in Gemini format
Solderpunk
solderpunk at posteo.net
Thu Nov 19 19:42:42 GMT 2020
On Thu Nov 19, 2020 at 8:09 PM CET, marc wrote:
> Would it be useful to include something which tells
> the software polling the feed when the next post could
> be expected ? It doesn't imply an obligation, it is
> just a hint...
...
> Maybe just the first/last link (pointing nowhere, or
> to itself or some other distinguished name) with a timestamp
> in the future could tell us when to poll again,
This would ruin the human-readability of the page, though. I would much
rather we just included a recommendation that pages not be polled more
than two or three times a day.
I do think it would be neat if feed readers tried to learn this
themselves, by taking note of how often polls result in something new...
Cheers,
Solderpunk
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