12 hr delay in feed to local aggregator
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Most of us in the Nashville blogging community who have recently switched over to WordPress.com have a 12 hour delay in our posts posting onto the local aggregator for Nashville Is Talking. (www.nashvilleistalking.com) It is driving us crazy. Does anybody know why this is happening?
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I can’t recall reading anything about feed aggregator’s being slow to pickup wordpress.com blog feeds and nothing jumped out at me when I did a search. That is strange because if you post something and look at your feed, it is there. Maybe the the feed is being cached on the local aggregator or it could be possible that wordpress has a cache system in place to help with traffic.
On a related note, I ran an aggregator site that pulled entries from all my wordpress.com blogs and it checked every 10 minutes for posts. It always picked up the posts without trouble on all 8 blogs. I would be leaning towards the caching problem, but don’t know if it is on this end or yours.
That is a good question that I guess needs to be answered by someone with more information than I right now. Looking forward to the results.
Trent
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hmmm…since it is all of the WP blogs this is happening to, but it isn’t happening on your aggregator, there must be a cache issue between WP and ours? If so, how would this be resolved?
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I will have to leave this one up to the staff looking or maybe drmike knows about this one. I am just hypothesizing on this one! Maybe ask the local aggregator if they cache incoming feeds. I know the system I did cache the feeds and had a setting to say when the feed cache would be updated, thus bringing in the new posts.
Sorry I can’t help more on this one!
Trent
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This sounds like an issue with your aggregator. Your WordPress feed is updated as soon as you make a post, so there is no reason your aggregator shouldn’t pick up the newest content when it requests your feed. Like Trent said, it sounds like the aggregator is doing some local caching and only refreshing the live content every 12 hours or so.
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I’m having a similar problem over the past week. New comments show up immediately on my RSS feed while new posts via RSS are taking hours to show on Google, NewsGator, Bloglines and My Yahoo! It’s very strange.
UPDATED TO ASK:
Is it possible turning off my full text RSS feed has anything to do with the delay? I only send a partial RSS feed now to cut down on scraping thefts.The Comments RSS feed is always full — it never truncates. Is that by design?
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Bloglines had an issue last week. It got discussed in the forums. I think they resolved it.
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Hi drmike —
I have several feeds people on staff check to make sure everything being sent is getting received.
New Comments arrive instantly as ever.
New Posts, however, are delayed across-the-board from showing up in RSS readers by hours when they used to show up even faster on the feeds than Comments — the only thing I changed on my end was sending the truncated feed for new Posts.
Do you know why the Comments feed is not truncated?
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Not a clue on the comment feed question. It may not be set up to do so within the code. May want to send that one in via feedback on monday.
I’m wondering if maybe the ping isn’t getting to the RSS providers so they know to pick up the newly updated feeds. Hmmm….
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It’s strange, drmike, and it just started happening this week. I prefer Google Reader and I used to post a new article, refresh Google Reader and BANG! the new post was right there. Now it takes hours for the post to appear while comments are all BANG! fresh on the feed.
I asked my staff to check their RSS readers and they verified the same anomaly for the delay in reading new posts.
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The 12 hours bit seems weird though. That sounds like something being set wrong between AM and PM.
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nod to boles/
Now it takes hours for the post to appear while comments are all BANG! fresh on the feed.
I asked my staff to check their RSS readers and they verified the same anomaly for the delay in reading new posts.
ditto
I think I see the results here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=7422&replies=40 -
drmike —
I’m not having the 12 hour delay. My delays is 3-6 hours for new Posts.
I wonder if truncated feeds are prioritized differently from full feeds by the RSS readers?
It’s quite bizarre having new Comments appear for a new Post in the RSS feed hours before the new Post appears! SMILE!
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hi timethief!
Okay, thanks for the nod and I checked out your link but please help me realize what I need to understand in that thread…
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Whoops – editing ‘cos I just noticed the original poster is one of my Nashville colleagues, I thought it was someone else from elsewhere reporting this when I first read it! :)
The Nashville aggregator delay has been like that since at least late December that I’m aware of (and it’s all WordPress feeds that have been getting the delay, doesn’t happen with anyone on any other platform for the most part).
However, the aggregator host itself was in the process of moving to WordPress.org last week – I’m not sure if they completed the move or not – in any case, some of us were wondering if our feed delay time was going to improve after that, and I need to check into that this week (and find out whether they have moved totally or are still in the process).
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thanks, timetheif!
OTHER INFORMATION:
I also use Pingoat to update my feeds so I’m not totally relying on Ping-O-Matic to ping the world. -
It has to be local caching on the local aggregator. IF they are moving over to a self hosted (wordpress.org), there are 2 great programs that bring in the feeds that I used and they have no delay on wordpress.com feeds. They can ask in the forums about that or click on my profile over there as I have commented many times on the subject.
I use the google reader for my feeds (wordpress.com and others) and it brings up the feeds as soon as I request them if there are new posts.
Trent
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