In today’s world, it’s important to get fast Relevant News amidst the information noise, including about work, products, and more. However, it takes too much time to check for updates among many sites and apps every minute. You can do it less often, for example, once a day, but then The information received becomes more belated. Worse, it may no longer be relevant at all or lost.
From this, we can conclude that important messages should be delivered as early as possible, without delay.
For starters, we need a way to automate this update check. This is how RSS works. You no longer need to manually visit different places. A special application, the RSS client, will do all the work in the background.
No one works with RSS
Why doesn’t it work? RSS support is getting weaker every year. More and more popular services Discontinue this support. Apple did it in 2019. Google has stopped serving RSS to Google Groups in 2021.
Among other reasons, it is also important that RSS is based on a polling service that does not scale. Let’s imagine a popular service with 1 million subscribers. Let’s say the customer refresh period is 15 minutes. Then the service should be able to withstand a load of about 1000 requests per second!
Now let’s imagine that this service publishes an update about once a day, at different times. Then every day the client will make 95 “blank” requests and only 1 will bring a useful result. As such, the service must be able to withstand a load where almost 99% of requests are wasted. The exact numbers are not so important here, because, let me remind you, the longer the update period, the more belated and less valuable these updates will be.
It’s a common The Problem of Decisions Based on Periodic “Polling”. And popular services don’t really need to serve such “surveys”, at least not for free. It may not be too expensive, but providing an RSS feed is pure charity. You can’t even collect user data. The implication is that the service must notify the client itself to avoid wasting resources.
No one wants to get spammed
What do services offer us instead of RSS feeds? They want the user to sign up for email updates and/or allow them to be notified. The problem is that Users can’t stand itUsually. No one wants to leave their email or allow notifications. Users usually avoid this.
Allow notification services is equal to Open the Portal to Hell receive spam. We immediately lose control of what, where, and when we receive. And that’s why people are still prefer RSS. In their RSS reader apps, everything is available in one place and is usually conveniently organized. Compared to all sorts of subscriptions, where it’s hard to remember all these services at all, which can be distracting anytime it’s convenient for them.
That is, despite their effectiveness, notifications have their own disadvantage – the client does not control them in the general case. Which causes discomfort and rejection. The bottom line is that the client should be able to manage both the content of the notifications and their subscriptions to them.
Decision
To date, neither RSS nor various notification implementations allow you to filter the content of messages. It is for this reason that the service was created Awakari. Just subscribe Like and specify what you want (or don’t want) to get, for example, by keywords:
The service allows you to receive messages from a large number of different sources, the list of which is constantly growing.
The implementation of the service is minimalistic (only about 100 thousand lines of code 😅), Awakari does not store any user data, everything is at the mercy of third-party services. Telegram is currently used as a means of delivery:
———-
Acknowledgement and Usage Notice
The editorial team at TechBurst Magazine acknowledges the invaluable contribution of Андрей the author of the original article that forms the foundation of our publication. We sincerely appreciate the author’s work. All images in this publication are sourced directly from the original article, where a reference to the author’s profile is provided as well. This publication respects the author’s rights and enhances the visibility of their original work. If there are any concerns or the author wishes to discuss this matter further, we welcome an open dialogue to address potential issues and find an amicable resolution. Feel free to contact us through the ‘Contact Us’ section; the link is available in the website footer.