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Posted: Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 4:19 pm. Filed in Features.
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rssCloud Update

by Joseph Scott

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.

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  1. Dave Winer
    November 5th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Thanks Joseph!

    Looking forward to what’s coming next..

    Dave

  2. just ME
    November 5th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    Gärna Tack! Just ME

  3. VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in
    November 5th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    I am always keeping an eye! :D

  4. Moses
    November 5th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    They’re GRRRRRRREAT! – Tony the Tiger

  5. RandomizeME
    November 5th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    Okay, I think I missed 85% of the technical stuff in this post… except that people are using the feature.

  6. Mary
    November 5th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    Always love the stats! :)

  7. sylviahubbard1
    November 5th, 2009 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.

  8. ratheesanyoganathan
    November 5th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    wow….. its really nice

  9. Roberto
    November 5th, 2009 at 8:10 pm

    Thanks!

    I hope someday we all use the RSS system to make the life simpler and better ;)

  10. julien51
    November 5th, 2009 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!

  11. lune
    November 5th, 2009 at 8:31 pm

    didn’t understand a word of that, but anyway, GO GUYS!

  12. danielstorer
    November 5th, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    This should be interesting!

  13. bundadontworry
    November 5th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

    thank you Joseph.
    it’s really great one.
    best regards.

  14. lovighost
    November 5th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    Cool! Thanks WordPress!

  15. mikelah
    November 5th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    Great

  16. CandyProfessor
    November 5th, 2009 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!

  17. O. Braga
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:36 pm

    Outstanding!

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  19. jobaspirations
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:46 pm

    I definitely find the cloud a useful tool.

    Thanks for the update.

    Job Pursuer.

  20. Exodus
    November 6th, 2009 at 2:33 am

    thanks heaps, WP team! ;-)
    i <3 WP!

  21. alamendah
    November 6th, 2009 at 3:53 am

    good…
    good…
    good
    thanks!

  22. wpadvanced
    November 6th, 2009 at 4:16 am

    Great News!
    Can’t wait for more announcements and things to make WordPress.com better.

    wpadvanced.

  23. Sajib
    November 6th, 2009 at 5:51 am

    You guys bought my eyes! Always keep in touch with your blog for something awesome. Damn you guys never fail.

  24. Skip McNutt
    November 6th, 2009 at 11:51 am

    Thank you for your efforts.

  25. WordPress Seniman Lase
    November 6th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    thanks

  26. jetcer
    November 6th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    It is an advantage for WordPress to get more followers and blogging fanatics! Keep it up for the betterment!

  27. masterclasslady
    November 6th, 2009 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”. :)

  28. ellyakanga
    November 6th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    absolutely love this! thanks

  29. yarnaholic
    November 6th, 2009 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!

  30. trinaramirez
    November 6th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    good to know. thanks!

  31. hanifjoly
    November 6th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    any tell me what is word press and what i do in word press. pleas tell any one

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  33. windsurfer02
    November 6th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    its so fine

  34. Shawn
    November 7th, 2009 at 4:17 am

    er. This is good news right?

  35. joker400
    November 7th, 2009 at 5:48 am

    thats great great great great …………..

  36. Marianne
    November 7th, 2009 at 7:59 am

    not understand what you mean

  37. mg555
    November 7th, 2009 at 8:21 am

    cool

  38. KURNIA SEPTA
    November 7th, 2009 at 11:38 am

    thnks….. :)

  39. dearatia
    November 7th, 2009 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/

  40. eideard
    November 7th, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    As ever – thanks for making our communications with the rest of the world easier, more professional.

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  42. Jennifer
    November 8th, 2009 at 8:53 am

    As always, the constant improvements to WordPress.com are much appreciated!

  43. izzywiz
    November 8th, 2009 at 9:15 am

    Cool

  44. chinod
    November 8th, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    thanks heaps, WP team!

  45. Mike
    November 9th, 2009 at 1:48 am

    Great!

  46. alhakim
    November 9th, 2009 at 1:59 am

    I’ll keep my eye on wordpress new features ;)

  47. Anna Davies-Hedman
    November 9th, 2009 at 6:33 am

    All improvemnet is good. Thank you

  48. hahahahaa
    November 9th, 2009 at 6:48 am

    cool!

  49. 1ienj1en
    November 9th, 2009 at 8:32 am

    Hl mua p kbr genk.

  50. Yasir Imran
    November 9th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    Great feature, thanks for this

  51. goodtimejohnny
    November 9th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    Perfect.

  52. hungrygoat
    November 9th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    how cool is that? http://hungrygoat.wordpress.com

  53. lovemeifyoudear
    November 9th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    nice

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  55. Vadi
    November 10th, 2009 at 1:24 am

    First time I’m hearing about push notifications. Sounds interesting.

  56. pipeinformatico
    November 10th, 2009 at 5:16 am

    Thanks!
    Hugs from Chile!

  57. sajidahmed441
    November 10th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    cool it is

  58. soulresponsibility
    November 10th, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    um, I guesse this is good news then? !!!!!!!!

  59. eastendbella
    November 10th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    Great! Thanks for the update

  60. mercadoatualizado
    November 10th, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    Nice!!!!

  61. christian1parent
    November 11th, 2009 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!!

  62. Andy
    November 13th, 2009 at 2:56 am

    Thanks for the information. I believe this would be of great help…

  63. artist01
    November 14th, 2009 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!!

  64. Razka
    November 14th, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    thx Joseph Scott.great job.

  65. chlara
    November 17th, 2009 at 7:31 am

    i didn’t understand anything.. but would like to know what this is all about..
    Can someone explain?

  66. kistianlize
    November 17th, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    ok, thanks for the “cake”. hope we always be better than before. GBU.
    regards.

  67. klipingcliping
    November 18th, 2009 at 6:39 am

    Thank’s, enjoy going to word’s with you

  68. kiran4it
    November 19th, 2009 at 11:26 am

    I think RSS makes our life easier on WWW

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