Number of feeds in feedBase: 25452. #
Version 0.6.2 of the feedBase server. Uses new functionality of davefeedread, so we should handle feeds that use different charsets. Also dereference the feed URL before adding a subscription. This should help eliminate duplicates. Still remaining -- use canonical URLs for existing subscriptions. I want to do that carefully because I'm still an SQL novice. #BTW, the next things I want to look at for feedBase -- getting a better handle on feeds you've subscribed to that we couldn't read. It's a common feature request. Not exactly sure how I want to do it, but I have ideas. Again, I'm going slow, considering every step carefully, using all the experience we've gotten in 21 years of feed parsing. (Yikes!)#
Another thing. I loved the Wired article about the RSS revival. But I hope it doesn't create the kind of hyper atmosphere we had in the early days. We moved way too fast and created chaos. I want to move slowly and do tech that can last for another 20 years, and hopefully without all the fits and starts and major steps backwards. #