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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
Apologies - in an attempt to simplify I went way too far and missed a word entirely.
60 HTTP requests. Every time your RSS Reader refreshes a feed it issues 1 HTTP request to the server to get the data, the same as if you opened the RSS feed page in your web browser.
Comment by NSA-SURVEILLANCE at 19/04/2023 at 01:11 UTC
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So RSS readers in a way will gain popularity for those who don't need API access to comment or vote and do not wish to pay or use official apps. Lurkers, rejoice!
Comment by Luciolinpos2 at 04/06/2023 at 14:36 UTC
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So, compared to the massive traffic as consequence of share and upload videos, gifs and images (many exabytes per minute), they want to limit http (rss) requests which produce a traffic of some Megabytes of text... I does not seem so logical.