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How about an "Update now"-button?
I would like to see a "update now"-button. Most of the time two hours are frequent enough for me, but now and then I want to update right away instead of waiting that long.
Maybe a time limit could be implemented (perhaps no more than two "Update now"-clicks during an hour?) to prevent abuse. And clicking the button would cancel the next scheduled update, and the normal normal frequency would return after that (i.e. if the frequency is one hour, and you click the button ten minutes before the normal update, the next scheduled update would be one hour and ten minutes away instead of just ten minutes away).
Maybe a time limit could be implemented (perhaps no more than two "Update now"-clicks during an hour?) to prevent abuse. And clicking the button would cancel the next scheduled update, and the normal normal frequency would return after that (i.e. if the frequency is one hour, and you click the button ten minutes before the normal update, the next scheduled update would be one hour and ten minutes away instead of just ten minutes away).
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or even a standard xml-rpc blog ping service would be great
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the suggestion, I'll consider this in a future update.
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Inappropriate?Or an update now for new feeds especially. Or for a feed that went down because you changed your twitter password and forgot to change it here.
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Inappropriate?a "preview" option would be neat as well - fetch the feed now and present it for approval / checking
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Inappropriate?This would be very nice, especially when testing a new feed.
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Inappropriate?"Update Now" should be a "pro" ($$$) feature or only available to people who have donated.
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Although I appreciate you would rather have a good service than an unsustainable great service I think you might have not understood the requirement. I believe it will mostly be used when setting up or testing, or on very rare occasions to update quickly, and hence will not add a notable load to the system. If someone is going to go to the effort of logging in and clicking ever time they update another feed they might as well update Twitter directly. -
Inappropriate?A «pro» feature?
I have a ping.fm bot as a contact in my Jabber client, he does all this stuff for free. Feedburner has a totally free «ping» service. How do you see one paying for something he got for free already?1 Comment Add a comment
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Sorry z-vet I don't understand your point. What does your ping.fm bot or Jabber client or Feedburner or a ping service have to do with this?
I don't have the same sense of entitlement to free web services as you so we'll just have to agree to disagree on the value of on-demand web service integration systems. I know how much effort it takes to deploy and maintain a system like twitterfeed so I appreciate not only the service but also the support.
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Inappropriate?An Update Now button is NOT worthy of paying for: it is not a convenience feature, nor is it a perk that any "free" version should not have access to. Anyone using the service for the first time will be much more comfortable if they can actually see it work immediately upon adding their first feed. I assumed it didn't work on my first feed, especially since I set it to 30 min. and never saw anything for hours...
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I agree that when you set up a feed you should be able to have it run the first time on-demand, but letting hundreds of thousands of feeds be re-run on-demand at any time would seriously change the scaling dynamics of the service and quite possibly make it less reliable for the general case, which would suck.
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@JimRoepcke I think you didn't read Simons original post carefully, which clearly states that there might be an "Update now"-click limit (ie no more than 2 forced updates during an hour).
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@Reüel fair enough, I did see that but perhaps I didn't give it enough thought.
Here's why I worry about it:
The home page says the service is managing 238,325 feeds. Let's assume they update once per hour on average. That is over 66 feeds to be processed per *second* by the service. That's 66 HTTP fetches, and some number of bit.ly and twitter API calls (anywhere from 0 to 330 of each, probably leaning to the lower side of that range). Not to mention the load on the service's databases. Every single second.
I signed up for the service, and didn't see my first posts appear on twitter for hours. My first reaction to that was "the service is already overloaded". We all know Twitter can barely keep up with its growth. When I signed up for mrtweet.com last week their bot DM'd me and said it would take 18 DAYS to get to my request.
So when I see the site might already be suffering from load issues and people are requesting a possibly risky (but awesome!) feature request, I thought, why not suggest limiting it to the people who support the service? As far as I'm concerned, anyone who relies on the service should donate something. But that's just me. -
Jim, I commented on this but not in the same thread. Sorry, I'm new to getsatisfaction. Here's my original comment to you: http://is.gd/ySLu.
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Inappropriate?@JimRoepcke look at Linux. Whole OS which, i believe, takes much more time and effort to develop and keep alive and which is «magically» absolutely free and open. Look at Google: search engine, email, photo hosting, document editor, calendar service, spreadsheets, blogging service and what not - everything for free. Do you see my point now?
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Are you serious? There's nothing MAGICAL about Linux and Google being free. They cost real money to make and operate.
Seeing as there's a DONATE BUTTON on the twitterfeed.com home page, you can bet the operators don't have money trees in their backyards and they can't just print money like the Fed whenever they have to pay for their servers.
Like I said, I don't have the same entitlement issues you do. Not even close. But don't worry, I donated to twitterfeed.com today so you can think of me every time you use the service for free. -
Inappropriate?Jim, what if the manual update was in lieu of automatic updates? I have a yahoo pipe that aggregates all of my feeds and feedburner dishes that single feed to twitterfeed. Another thing feedburner will do is alert subscribers when there is a change. That way, when I do something that pops into one of my RSS feeds, twitter feed could be issued a "manual update request."
My point is that when I do blog, I want all of them to appear in twitter as rapidly as possible. I'll write about 3 posts a week and I write them all in the same day. Therefore, I have twitterfeed set to process my RSS every 30 minutes. I would set that to manual only and twitter feed would have to process my RSS 3 times a week. Providing manual update services could cut down on the number of feeds twitterfeed has to process dramatically.
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Inappropriate?A ping server makes a lot of sense, it's just that I haven't had the time to think about how to best implement this. Ditto for some sort of restricted "update now" functionality. Bear with me, but these things are definitely under consideration!
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Inappropriate?What is twitterfeed written in? Can I help?
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Inappropriate?I hate having to wait 2 hours to see if my changes broke something. And then after nothing happening, changing a setting and waiting another 2 hours.
A update button would be really nice. Or if you can't update now, how about a count down clock to when it will post. That way we will know when to come back and check the system.
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