Daryl Pereira › Comments

"Refresh feed" doesn't appear for all services. - Vezquex

thanks for the info Mark, although this "prioritization sheme" is still too fuzzy for me (and I find it quite annoying to hit the refresh button every time. I hate everything involving manual labor when it comes to aggregators ;-) - Gaby K. Slezák

Vezquex: I think the only one it doesn't appear for is Google Talk, because it doesn't use a feed. Are there any others you've found? Gaby: right, the manual refresh is if you want it right away. With the prioritization, you have to realize it's just a feed they're pulling in most cases. Things like availability on the 3rd party's end, the freq. of the feed update on the 3rd party's end (for example, LibraryThing takes forever to update your account's feed, so it turn takes forever for Friendfeed to update) - Mark Trapp

It'd be cool if there was some sort of transparency though: notice that your feed hasn't updated in a while? If you check out your account, it could tell you when the last refresh was, and if it had any problems. - Mark Trapp

Mark: if a post shows up on the 3rd party (i.g., tumblr, Flickr) it should only be a question of friendfeed pulling it. Where does the info about the priorization come from? I'm asking because I had similar experiences as Chronistin reported, and that doesn't sound like a rule we can depend on (1 hour/8 hours). Friendfeed-Support: please just tell us how it is so we can stop speculating ;-) - Gaby K. Slezák

Gaby: Friendfeed relies on one of two things to be informed about a site update: the RSS/Atom feed for your account on that service, or the service's API. Some services don't publish immediately to their API, have restrictions in place on their API, or don't publish immediately to their RSS feed. What you see on the service's web page isn't necessarily the same data Friendfeed has access to. - Mark Trapp

Peter, that experience is not universal. For example, right now, my Twitter entries are taking a few minutes to a half hour to show up here without a manual refresh. There are a lot of factors at play in the feed updates: I think you guys are going to be hard pressed to get a simple one line answer on when you can expect to see your feed items show up automatically. - Mark Trapp

Delicious updates seem to be taking days - I need to keep making manual updates. - Daryl Pereira