Hey ya’ll!

So I’ve made a change to the posting procedure of the PravdaRSS bot. Instead of checking the list of feeds every few minutes, the bot now checks every hour. It will then queue those posts in its DB and post them over the course of the next hour.

Instead of getting 16 posts all created nearly instantly, you’ll see them spread out across the hour. One post every 4ish minutes, instead of 16 posts in less than a minute.

I made this change based on feedback. Because of how it posted previously, some people would experience a wall of posts in their feed, pushing out other posts. This should ensure that news stories are more evenly distributed throughout the hour, and thus not taking up nearly an entire page in the feed.

I can always adjust the timer, make it pull every 2 hours for example, but every hour seemed like a good starting point.

Other updates: I’ve also implemented a proper user-agent for the system, which should result in fewer publications rejecting the bots attempts to check their feds.

Anyway, hope you all have a great holiday season and a great new year!