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Evaporating 43Folders RSS feed

How long ago did the RSS items shrink to nothingness? Am I using a feed URL that's being phased out? (And how useful are all those buttons below the post when I can't see enough of the text itself to care?)

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That bajillion RSS feeds that...

Merlin wrote:
That bajillion RSS feeds that Wordpress spits out is super-handy for people who live in RSS (yay!) but it's super-expensive for me (boo!) and is creaming my site traffic big-time (double boo!).

I'm open to suggestions on where the right balance is -- full feeds are back for the time being, but at some point there's likely to be some kind of change to help offset the double whammy of a "successful" rss feed. :)

Thanks much for the comments, and sorry for the annoyance.


Hmm! I had heard of RSS bandwidth becoming unmanageable to large sites a long time ago (years?) but I thought that it had somehow stopped being an issue. I don't have any suggestions on fixing it, but it's good to know that there was an explanation. I personally thought it was a configuration error. ;)

Good luck finding a solution!

 
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