rssCloud Update
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.
Nov 5th at 5:13 pm
Thanks Joseph!
Looking forward to what’s coming next..
Dave
Nov 5th at 5:22 pm
Gärna Tack! Just ME
Nov 5th at 5:23 pm
I am always keeping an eye!
Nov 5th at 5:29 pm
They’re GRRRRRRREAT! – Tony the Tiger
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.
Nov 5th at 5:48 pm
Always love the stats!
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.
Nov 5th at 8:00 pm
wow….. its really nice
Nov 5th at 8:10 pm
Thanks!
I hope someday we all use the RSS system to make the life simpler and better
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!
Nov 5th at 8:31 pm
didn’t understand a word of that, but anyway, GO GUYS!
Nov 5th at 8:42 pm
This should be interesting!
Nov 5th at 8:57 pm
thank you Joseph.
it’s really great one.
best regards.
Nov 5th at 9:21 pm
Cool! Thanks WordPress!
Nov 5th at 9:34 pm
Great
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!
Nov 5th at 11:36 pm
Outstanding!
Nov 5th at 11:46 pm
I definitely find the cloud a useful tool.
Thanks for the update.
Job Pursuer.
Nov 6th at 2:33 am
thanks heaps, WP team!
i <3 WP!
Nov 6th at 3:53 am
good…
good…
good
thanks!
Nov 6th at 4:16 am
Great News!
Can’t wait for more announcements and things to make WordPress.com better.
wpadvanced.
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.
Nov 6th at 11:51 am
Thank you for your efforts.
Nov 6th at 1:14 pm
thanks
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!
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”.
Nov 6th at 3:59 pm
absolutely love this! thanks
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!
Nov 6th at 4:22 pm
good to know. thanks!
Nov 6th at 5:48 pm
any tell me what is word press and what i do in word press. pleas tell any one
Nov 6th at 10:21 pm
its so fine
Nov 7th at 4:17 am
er. This is good news right?
Nov 7th at 5:48 am
thats great great great great …………..
Nov 7th at 7:59 am
not understand what you mean
Nov 7th at 8:21 am
cool
Nov 7th at 11:38 am
thnks…..
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/
Nov 7th at 8:27 pm
As ever – thanks for making our communications with the rest of the world easier, more professional.
Nov 8th at 8:53 am
As always, the constant improvements to WordPress.com are much appreciated!
Nov 8th at 9:15 am
Cool
Nov 8th at 10:23 pm
thanks heaps, WP team!
Nov 9th at 1:48 am
Great!
Nov 9th at 1:59 am
I’ll keep my eye on wordpress new features
Nov 9th at 6:33 am
All improvemnet is good. Thank you
Nov 9th at 6:48 am
cool!
Nov 9th at 8:32 am
Hl mua p kbr genk.
Nov 9th at 3:46 pm
Great feature, thanks for this
Nov 9th at 5:29 pm
Perfect.
Nov 9th at 6:32 pm
how cool is that? http://hungrygoat.wordpress.com
Nov 9th at 7:59 pm
nice
Nov 10th at 1:24 am
First time I’m hearing about push notifications. Sounds interesting.
Nov 10th at 5:16 am
Thanks!
Hugs from Chile!
Nov 10th at 12:31 pm
cool it is
Nov 10th at 3:53 pm
um, I guesse this is good news then? !!!!!!!!
Nov 10th at 5:21 pm
Great! Thanks for the update
Nov 10th at 7:20 pm
Nice!!!!
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!!
Nov 13th at 2:56 am
Thanks for the information. I believe this would be of great help…
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!!
Nov 14th at 6:59 pm
thx Joseph Scott.great job.
Nov 17th at 7:31 am
i didn’t understand anything.. but would like to know what this is all about..
Can someone explain?
Nov 24th at 5:17 pm
Check out the earlier post RSS in the Clouds for the basics.
Nov 17th at 4:34 pm
ok, thanks for the “cake”. hope we always be better than before. GBU.
regards.
Nov 18th at 6:39 am
Thank’s, enjoy going to word’s with you
Nov 19th at 11:26 am
I think RSS makes our life easier on WWW