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FrankenFeed News. . .
You may have noticed that FrankenFeed rarely works. For quite some time it worked fine. We had over 40,000 users merging more than 600,000 RSS feeds. Then someone built a bot to attack the system. Suddenly we were merging several million feeds bogging down the system. We would shut him down and then he would pop back up again from a new IP address. Finally, we stopped trying to stop him, but let the system bog down to a crawl (basically not working). We figured that eventually he would go away when whatever he was trying to do (Google SEO we think) stopped working. He didn’t go away.
Rodrigo began work on a new version that would prevent various types of abuse that we had seen in the first several months of use. He completed his work this summer, but we never got around to bug testing it. Today one of our clients needed the public version functioning for a project and we made the decision to launch the new version (in true alpha) immediately. You will need to recreate your feeds (sorry about that ~ but surely you were not actually using the system since it didn’t work constantly).
We will report here on the blog regularly on the new system and let you know what we are working on. In the meantime, enjoy FrankenFeed 2.0.
Hi,
just wondering if frankenfeed 2.0 is currently supposed to be working or not?
Comment by Ian — March 1, 2010 @ 8:43 am