A few years ago you lets users set their own Refresh Feeds time. Is that still possible?
It’s not. I’m moving, one small step at a time, toward a system where NetNewsWire makes far fewer calls to fetch RSS feeds, since frequent calls becomes a hardship to people who run and pay for servers. (And they complain about it, as they should, and sometimes they even ban NetNewsWire.)
(Also: frequent calls uses more battery and energy, and we shouldn’t be wasting energy.)
But it’s not enough for it to make fewer calls: it should be smart about it. Figure out how often feeds update and when, that kind of thing.
It should also pay attention to what the server is saying about how long to cache feeds and which hours to skip, for instance.
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