Wisdom

Only poll feeds if you have to

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The reason, the only reason to poll is if you have to, that's a better way to say it. If there's a, if there's something, if something happened where there was some sort of, you know, censorship, or something that was needing to be avoided. You know, sure, poll, but, but I don't for 99% of the time.

Episode 193: Helpful Little Wizards (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:26:35 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

With Podping, there's little reason left to poll RSS feeds. Dave tempers 'never poll' to 'only poll if you have to', for example to route around censorship. Otherwise, 99% of the time, podcasting can reach a post-polling world.