We've recently added a feature, on the advanced subscriptions page, that lets you subscribe to all the weblogs we track - including LiveJournal, well over a million (1,000,000) feeds.
The standard subscription still uses our "low volume" feed, which includes roughly 100,000 source feeds. The distinction among the low volume and high volume feeds reflects the kind of data you can expect to receive.
We decided to move most of the personal journal type feeds into a separate feed group because there's just too much traffic for most people. Many subscriptions on the high-volume feed return 10, 20, 30 messages or more in the space of just a few minutes.
For most purposes, this can be a bit too much to keep up with. However there's a lot of great content being produced in these feeds, so we wanted to provide a way to subscribe to this data.
When you create a subscription on the advanced subscriptions page, you can indicate if you want results from our high-volume feed, the basic (low-volume) feed, or both. As we are able to categorize more feeds into distinct groups, we'll probably add several more options on this page. If you have any thoughts on feed groups, please let us know!
Posted by pubsub at February 3, 2004 07:48 PM | TrackBackComments are closed.