RSS Feed Organization Strategies And New Feed Cost

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2024-03-29 03:30:06

I was reading an article posted on The New Leaf Journal about Organizing RSS and ATOM Feeds and it got me thinking about my own RSS feed strategy. At a high level, the article describes several strategies for organizing an RSS feed, of which from my interpretation can be broken down into 4 different methods for organizing feeds:

A feed strategy, in turn, may use a combination of these methods. For example, in the past my strategy for organizing my RSS feed used a combination of the categorical and ranking methods; I organized my feed into 3 ranks (high, medium, and low priority), and categorized them based on topic. However, over time as my feed grew larger, I started to encounter problems with scale from this strategy. Notably:

As I reached over 100 feeds[1 ], the aforementioned problems started to surface, and so I decided to reformulate my strategy along more mathematical lines that would provide a logical mechanism for analyzing my feed and managing it's growth. So here is how my RSS strategy works.