Don't publish your rate limits
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really the same reason we don't publish, like I don't publish rate limits for the podcast index API.
Episode 225: Snake Bite (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:33:45 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Discussing Apple's undisclosed push-notification budget for podcast apps, Dave says it's the same reason he doesn't publish the Podcast Index API's rate limits even though he knows the numbers. Once they're public, everyone runs right up to the limit. He'd go a step further and quietly vary the limits.
Not in the audio. Guest episode (Franco Solerio; 0.35 threshold). The quote is a 5-cue Dave run about his own API. The reason ('everybody tries to run right up to the limit') and the 'change it slightly all the time' idea come from the adjacent Unknown cues and the following 2-cue Dave run, so they're paraphrased in the summary, not quoted.
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Episode 208: The Booby Trap (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:10:19 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
We do not publish rate limits because we are a free service that operates on donations and if we publish rate limits Everyone would
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